Department of Education
Dr. Tim Webb, Commissioner
Science - Second Grade
Content Standard: 1.0 Cell Structure and Function
The student will investigate the structure and function of plant and animal cells.
Learning Expectations:
1.1 Recognize that living things are made up of smaller parts.
1.2 Recognize that smaller parts of living things contribute to the operation and well being of entire organisms.
Accomplishments
Cell Structure and Function:
2.1.1 Recognize that living things are made up of smaller parts.
- Use magnifiers to study smaller parts of animals and identify their functions.
2.1.2 Recognize that smaller parts of living things contribute to the operation and well being of entire organisms.
- Use magnifiers to observe and describe what occurs when a plant or an animal loses a specific part.
Content Standard: 2.0 Interactions Between Living Things and Their Environment
The student will investigate how living things interact with one another and with non-living elements of their environment.
Learning Expectations:
2.1 Recognize the distinction between living and non-living things.
2.2 Realize that organisms use their senses to interact with their environment.
2.3 Examine interrelationships among plants, animals, and their environment.
2.4 Recognize that the environment and the organisms that live in it can be affected by pollution.
Accomplishments
Interactions Between Living Things and Their Environment::
2.2.1 Recognize the distinction between living and non-living things.
- Categorize objects as living or non-living.
2.2.2 Realize that organisms use their senses to interact with their environment.
- Determine how animals interact with the living and non-living elements in their environment through the senses.
2.2.3 Examine interrelationships among plants, animals, and their environment.
- Determine how organisms interact with the non-living elements of their environment.
2.2.4 Recognize that the environment and the organisms that live in it can be affected by pollution.
- Recognize different types of pollutants.
Content Standard: 3.0 Food Production and Energy for Life
The student will study the basic parts of plants, investigate how plants produce food, and discover that plants and animals use food to sustain life.
Learning Expectations:
3.1 Recognize the basic requirements of all living things.
3.2 Recognize the basic parts of plants.
Accomplishments
Food Production and Energy for Life:
2.3.1 Recognize the basic requirements of all living things.
- Compare how plants and animals satisfy their basic requirements for life.
Content Standard: 4.0 Heredity and Reproduction
The student will understand the basic principles of inheritance.
Learning Expectations:
4.1 Recognize that living things reproduce.
4.2 ecognize that offspring tend to resemble their parents.
4.3 Recognize that the appearance of plants and animals changes as they mature.
Accomplishments
Heredity and Reproduction:
2.4.1 Recognize that living things reproduce.
- Recognize that all living things come from other living things.
2.4.2 Recognize that offspring tend to resemble their parents.
- Match offspring with their parents.
2.4.3 Recognize that the appearance of plants and animals changes as they mature.
- Recognize that as an organism grows, its appearance may change.
Content Standard: 5.0 Diversity and Adaptation Among Living Things
The student will understand that living things have characteristics that enable them to survive in their environment.
Learning Expectations:
5.1 Recognize the differences among plants and animals of the same kind.
5.2 Recognize that living things have features that help them to survive in different environments.
Accomplishments
Diversity and Adaptation Among Living Things:
2.5.1 Recognize the differences among plants and animals of the same kind.
- Provide specific examples of differences among animals of the same kind.
2.5.2 Recognize that living things have features that help them to survive in different environments.
- Classify an organism according to the environment in which it can best survive.
Content Standard: 6.0 Biological Change
The student will understand that living things have changed over time.
Learning Expectation:
6.1 Recognize that some plants and animals that once lived are no longer found on earth.
Accomplishments
Biological Change:
2.6.1 Recognize that some plants and animals that once lived are no longer found on earth.
- Recognize that some plants and animals that formerly inhabited the earth are no longer present on earth.
Content Standard: 7.0 Earth and Its Place in the Universe
The student will investigate the structure of the universe.
Learning Expectations:
7.1 Recognize that different objects appear in the day and nighttime sky.
7.2 Recognize that there are predictable patterns which occur in the universe.
Accomplishments
Earth and Its Place in the Universe:
2.7.1 Recognize that different objects appear in the day and nighttime sky.
- Recognize there are innumerable stars in the nighttime sky that vary in brightness, color, and location.
- Recognize that the sun is the brightest object in the sky and earth’s closest star.
2.7.2 Recognize that there are predictable patterns which occur within the universe.
- Determine the approximate time of day, from the position of the sun in the sky.
- Recognize that the phases of the moon occur in a predictable pattern.
Content Standard: 9.0 Earth Features
The student will understand that the earth has many geological features that are constantly changing.
Learning Expectation:
9.1 Identify the earth’s major geological features.
Accomplishments
Earth Features:
2.9.1 Identify the earth’s major geological features.
- Recognize the earth’s major geological features (e.g., continents, oceans, lakes).
Content Standard: 10.0 Earth Resources
The student will investigate the properties, uses, and conservation of earth’s resources.
Learning Expectations:
10.1 Recognize that there are a variety of earth materials which have basic observable and measurable properties.
10.2 Realize that earth materials can be recycled or conserved.
Accomplishments
Earth Resources:
2.10.1 Recognize that there are a variety of earth materials that have basic observable and measurable properties.
- Recognize the components of soil and sand.
- Observe the properties of sand and soil.
2.10.2 Realize that earth materials can be recycled or conserved.
- Identify various methods to conserve earth resources (e.g. soil, trees, water).
Content Standard: 11.0 Forces and Motion
The student will investigate the effects of force on the movement of objects.
Learning Expectations:
11.1 Realize the basic concept that forces can move objects (push/pull).
11.2 Observe and predict how the weight of an object and its position affect balance.
Accomplishments
Forces and Motion:
2.11.1 Realize the basic concept that forces can move objects (push/pull).
- Recognize that objects fall unless supported.
- Identify materials that are attracted to magnets.
2.11.2 Observe and predict how the weight of an object and its position affect balance.
- Observe how changing the amount of weight affects a balanced system.
Content Standard: 12.0 Structure and Properties of Matter
The student will investigate the characteristic properties of matter.
Learning Expectation:
12.1 Recognize that objects have observable properties that can change over time and under different conditions.
Accomplishments
Structure and Properties of Matter:
2.12.1 Recognize that objects have observable properties that can change over time and under different conditions.
- Identify physical properties that can be used to describe a material.
- Describe ways in which a material can be changed.
Content Standard: 13.0 Interactions of Matter
The student will investigate the interactions of matter.
Learning Expectation:
13.1 Investigate the kinds of changes that occur when different types of matter interact.
Accomplishments
Interactions of Matter:
2.13.1 Investigate the kinds of changes that occur when different types of matter interact.
- Recognize that when substances combine they may retain their individual properties (e.g., salt and pepper).
- Recognize that when substances combine they may lose their individual properties (e.g., powdered drink mix with water).
Content Standard: 14.0 Energy
The student will investigate energy and its uses.
Learning Expectations:
14.1 Realize that the sun is the main source of earth’s heat and light energy.
14.2 Recognize that sound is produced when objects vibrate.
Accomplishments
Energy:
2.14.1 Realize that the sun is the main source of earth’s heat and light energy.
- Compare the heating and cooling rates of land, air, and water.