Description
These second-grade science lesson plans include everything you need to teach the second-grade NGSS 2-ESS1 Earth’s Place in the Universe and 2-ESS2 Earth’s Systems.
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Lessons in this unit:
✅Please note: You will need access to YouTube as there are many suggestions for videos in these lessons.
Lesson 1 – Natural Events that Change the Earth Quickly
Lesson 2 – Natural Events that Change the Earth Slowly
Lesson 3 – Review of Quick and Slow Changes
Lesson 4 – What are Landforms?
Lesson 5 – Where is Water on Earth?
Lesson 6 – Develop a Model to Represent the Shapes and Kinds of Land and Bodies
of Water in Your State
Lesson 7 – STEM Challenge: Design a Solution to Prevent Water from Changing the
Shape of the Land
Included within this resource are:
– the standards
– suggested YouTube Videos and Books
– Geologist Poster
– KLEWS Chart (KWL for Science)
– student worksheets for collecting data and recording observations
– Natural Disasters Poster
– Natural Disasters Flipbook
– Elephant Toothpaste Experiment
– Weathering Reading Passage
– Weathering Activity and Questions
– Erosion Reading Passage and Questions
– Erosion Activities
– Weather/Erosion Venn Diagram
– 14 Photographs of Weathering and Erosion
– Task Cards with Information about Natural Events that Change the Surface of the
Earth
– Landforms Booklet
– Landforms Matching Task Cards
– Flipbook- Earth’s Water in Three States of Matter and Posters
– Rain in a Bottle Experiment
– engineering and design process posters
– 20 colorful essential vocabulary cards with graphics and definitions
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