2nd grade Instructional Guide

VOCABULARY ● seed ● survival

● animals ● plants ● external structures ● growth

● environment ● habitat ● structure ● function ● reproduce

● problem ● solution ● design ● model ● test ● compare

● pollinate ● disperse

INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES ● CSD Lesson Plans ● 2nd Grade OER Textbook SCAFFOLDING IN ACTION

● Utilize sentence stems during group discussions to ensure understanding and to keep the conversation focused on solving the phenomenon. ● Make connections each day to the phenomenon. ● Explicitly teach how to write an opinion and support it with two reasons. ● Students could design a way to retrieve pollen from a fower using different tools.

Skill Building

Extension

INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS

ELA

Wonders TE pg. 420: “Time for Kids - Antarctica-Bound”

Strand2.2 : Living Things and Their Habitat

Standard 2.2.1 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about patterns of living things (plants and animals, including humans) in different habitats. Emphasize the diversity of living things in land and water habitats. Examples of patterns in habitats could include descriptions of temperature or precipitation and the types of plants and animals found in land habitats. (LS2.C, LS4.C, LS4.D Topic 5 STEM Project: Heating, Cooling, and Subtraction integrates with the Utah SEEd standard listed below. Strand 2.3 Properties of Matter Standard 1.2.3. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about changes in matter caused by heating or cooling. Emphasize that some changes can be reversed and some cannot. Examples of reversible changes could include freezing water or melting crayons.

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