Second+Grade+Science

Life Science
All About Babies (Spring Board Magazine) Amazing Animal Senses The Amazing Human Body (Harcourt School) Animal Web Cams (National Zoo) Animal Diversity Web Animal Habitat Animal Homes (Spring Board Magazine) Animal Homes Animal Park (BBC) Animal Sounds (Sesame Street) Animal Sounds with Elmo (Sesame Street) Animals of the World (Kids) Baby Animals Baby Animals: Asia Baby Videos San Diego Zoo Build A Block (Learning Box) Build a Dinosaur (Scholastic) Build Your Wild Side Building Block (Boowa Kwala) Building Block (Kids Com) Build Your Own Caterpillar (Scholastic) The Butterfly Life Cycle (Teachers) Camouflage Field Book: Arctic Meadow (Harcourt School) Christmas Bear and His Five Senses (Beacon Learning Center) Classifying Living and Nonliving Things Concept Mapping with Excel (#|Internet 4 Classrooms) Choose a Venn Template (Class Tools) Create a Food Web Creature Feature National Geographic) Critter Craze (Beacon Learning Center) Design a Habitat [|Stockbridge GA] Design a Panda Habitat (National Zoo) Dottie and Buzz Down On The Farm (BBC) || EEK! Critter Corner Energy Pryamid (Harcourt School) Essay Map (Read Write Think) Exploring Parts and Wholes Farm Babies Five Senses Five Senses (Urban) Five Senses and Four Season Quilt Food Chain (National Geographic) Food Chains (BBC) Food Web 9Scholastic) Food Web (Edu Web) Food Webs (Gould League) Fossils (Foot Prints) From Seed to Plant (Harcourt School) Fun With Food Webs (Harcourt Schools) Graphic Organizers Graphic Organizers (Edu Place) Graphic Organizers Maker (Teach-nology) The Great Habitat Match-Up (Scholastic) The Great Plant Escape (Urban) Growing Plants (BBC) Guided Discovery Lesson (Lesson Plan Page)snxbbxhhat (BBC) Habitats (At School) Helping Plants Grow (BBC) Health and Growth (BBC) Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers (Holt) Human and Animal Habitat Human Body (Apples 4 the Teacher) || I Have.... Interactive Graphic Organizers Interactive Graphic Organizers Interactive Venn Diagram (Read Write Think) Jigsaw Puzzle Game Life Cycles (Teams) Life Cycles (BGFL) Life Cycles Life Cycles (Ms Nucleus) Life Cycles (Crick Web) Life Cycles of Frogs (Tooter 4 Kids) Living and Nonliving (Science For All) Living Things (BBC) Magnificent Magnifiers (Center for Education) Magnifier Walk Magnify That (Globe) Make A Monster (Sesame Street) Maze Craze (Scholastic) Monarch Butterfly Monster Bugs (Scholastic) Paper Towel Plants (PBS Kids) Panda Cam (Earth Cam) Panda Cam (#|San Diego Zoo) Plants and Animals in the Local Environment (BBC) Plant Cells Plants and Animals: Same/Different Plants in Motion Podcast, Videos and Webcams Put Annie Back Together (BBC) One...Two...Three...Grow! [|Online Graphic Organizers] (Write #|Design Online) Ourselves (BBC) Owl Pages Owl Pellet Dissection (Kid Wings) Science Explorers (Exploratorium) Seeing, Hearing and Smelling the World Sensational (Harcourt School) The Senses Senses (Think Quest) Senses (Harcourt School) Snuffy's Safari (Sesame Street) Squish The Fish Stages of a Butterfly (Tooter 4 Kids) Students Make a Hand Lens (Ms Nucleus) Super Kids (Dole) || Ready, Set, Let's Dough! Tiger Head (Kinder Web Games) Touching Using Excel as a Graphic Organizer (Internet 4 Classrooms) Using Excel for Concept Maps (Internet 4 Classrooms) Venn Diagram Graphic Organizer (Read Write Think) Venn Diagram Worksheet Maker (Teach-nology) Watch It Grow (Foss Web) Weird Science (Funology) What Will I Be When I Grow Up? (Foss) Which One Doesn't Belong Who Has What? Wild Animals That Need Our Help (Kids Planet) Working on the Food Chain (Ms Nucleus) Young and Adult Animals (Foss) Your Tongue (Kids Health) Zoom Sci (PBS Kids) ||
 * 1) **Living Things ** - Design a new living thing and explain how it would acquire food, water, and air
 * 2) **Local Environment ** - Draw or use pictures of a local environment to label the plants and animals
 * 3) **Dependency ** - Investigate ways that plants and animals depend on each other
 * 4) **Life Requirements ** - Construct a flow chart that demonstrates how plants, animals, and the environment interact to provide #|basic life requirements
 * 5) **Describe Habitat ** - Describe the habitat of a particular organism based on its food, water, and air requirements
 * 6) **Model a Habitat ** - Design a model of a habitat for an organism in which all of its needs would be met
 * 7) **Life Cycle ** - Compare and contrast the life cycles of different organisms such as a chicken, butterfly, meal worm, frog, or human
 * 8) **Sequence Stages ** - Sequence a collection of pictures or illustrations into the correct stages of an organism's life cycle
 * 9) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Similarities **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Look for similarities in pictures of members from the same human family
 * 10) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Traits **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Create a graphic organizer that compares observable traits that offspring share with their parents
 * 11) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Organisms **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Compare and contrast the characteristics of organisms from two different environments
 * 12) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Survival **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Infer the characteristics needed by an organism to survive in a particular environment
 * 13) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Fossils **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Observe fossils or pictures of fossils and make inferences about the organisms from which they originated
 * 14) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Past Life **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Compare pictures of fossils with animals or plants that are living today
 * Alien: Assembly Required (PBS Kids)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Earth Science
Alternative Energy (Think Quest) Amazing Space As The Earth Turns (Beacon Learning Center) Astronomy Picture of the Day (NASA) Choose a Venn Template (Class Tools) Classifying Living and Nonliving Things Cloud Clues (North Canton) Cloud Forecasting Clouds (Wild, Wild Weather) Cloud Types Count Us In: 9 Current Moon Phase Cycles in Nature (Chalk) Day and Night (Chalk) Day and Night Experiment (Chalk) The Dirt of Soil (Discovery Education) Dress Elmo for Fall (Sesame Street) Earth, Sun and Moon (BBC) Ecoforkids (Youtube) Earth/Moon Image Energy Kids (EIA) Examine the Phases of the Moon From Earth and Space (Class Zone) Eye on the Sky Forecasting Gather Data (Scholastic) Graphic Organizers (Education World) Graphic Organizers (Graphic) Graphic Organizers (Edu Place) Graphic Organizer Maker (Teach-nology) || Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers (Holt) Hot Sun Facts (Think Quest) How Much Soil is There? (NASA) How to Conserve Natural Resources (eHow) How to Forecast Weather by Studying Clouds How To Make a Paper Chain How to Make a Victorian Paper Chain How to Read Clouds to Forecast Weather How to Weave a Paper Chain If the temperature is 30 degrees, why do we sometimes get snow and other times get freezing rain. (How Stuff Works) In My Own Backyard Interactive Graphic Organizer Interactive Graphic Organizer Interactive Venn Diagram (Read Write Think) Interactive Weather Maker (Scholastic) Kidseclipse: Total Solar Eclipse Landforms and Bodies of Water (Enchanted Learning) Landforms for Second Grade (Teacher Net) Living and Nonliving Lesson Learning The Sky Lunar Phases Lunar Phases (Sun Shine) Make a Thermometer (Energy Quest) Make Your Own Weather Station Making a Sun Clock (Exploratorium) Map Your Schoolyard Moon Image Moonlight Madness (Star Child) Moon Phases (Star Date) Moon Phase Images NASA NASA's Space Place National Weather Service (Weather) The Night Sky Live North America Image One-on-One With the Sun Online Graphic Organizer (Write Design Online) Ourselves (BBC) || A Paper Chain for Edgar and Andrew (Meddy Bemps) Paper Craft Ideas (Family Fun) Pebbles, Sand and Silt (Foss) The Phases of the Moon The Phases of the Moon (Chalk) Phases of the Moon Phases of the Moon (Harcourt School) Phases of the Moon (Newton's Apple) Phases of the Moon Picture Maker (Brain Pop) Plants and Animals in the Local Environment (BBC) Recognize Daytime and Nighttime (Number Nut) Recycle City (EPA) Regional Climate Renewable Energy Sources and the Environment: Quiz 1 (Quiz Tree) Rocks and Minerals Sand Rocks and Soil (BBC) Rocks and Weathering (BBC) School Yard Mapping Exercises Seasons (Scholastic) Seasons (NGFL) Seasons (Sheppard Software) Seasonal Changes Sky Path Soil Science and Worm Composting (Can Do) Soil Science Basics (NASA) Soils of North America (Teacher Vision) Solar Car (PBS Kids) Space Chase (Scholastic) The Space Hopper Game (Fun Brain) Space, the Final Frontier (Galaxy) Stars (Kids Astronomy) Sticks and the Seasons (TVO Kids) Sun (Child Star) The Sun (Enchanted Learning) Superfund for Students and Teachers (EPA) Sunrise, Sunset: Apparent Motion of the Sun (Star Child) || Take the Conservation Challenge Quiz Test Your Energy IQ: 1 (Energy Quest) Test Your Energy IQ: 2 (Energy Quest) Tree Power (Science Museum) Tsunami Using Excel for Concept Mapping (Internet 4 Classrooms) Using Excel as a Graphic Organizer (Internet 4 Classrooms) Using Excel in the Classroom (Internet 4 Classrooms) Venn Diagram (Edu Place) Venn Diagram Graphic Organizer (Read Write Think) Venn Diagram Worksheet Maker (Teach-nology) Views of the Solar System (Solar View) Ways to Conserve Natural Resources (Cal Recycle) Weather (Edheads) Weather Chart Weather Forecasting The Weather Game Weather Teddy Weather Instruments [|SD Internet Marketing] Weather Measurement (USA Today) Weather Wiz Kids Web Weather for Kids What Causes the Seasons? (Teacher Vision) What is Weather? (BBC) What's the Weather? (UEN) What's the Weather? (Foss) What's Up In Space (Space Weather) What Will Bella Wear? (Story Place) Wonderful World of Weather Your Dad:1 Your Dad: 2 Zoe's Pet Shelter (Sesame Street ||
 * 1) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Sun's Position **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Observe and collect data on the sun's position at different times of the day
 * 2) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Moon Phases **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Use science journals to draw and record changes in the moon over a period of time
 * 3) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Soil Types **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Sort, analyze, and compare a variety of soil types
 * 4) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Rocks **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Observe rocks of different sizes with a hand lens and describe these materials according to their basic features
 * 5) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Renewable or Nonrenewable **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Identify and categorize items in the classroom made from renewable or nonrenewable resources
 * 6) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Reusing Resources **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Identify simple methods for reusing the earth's resources
 * 7) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Climate **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- Use records and graphs of seasonal temperature changes to draw conclusions about the weather during different times of the year
 * The Adventure of WeatherLizard (Scholastic)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Physical Science
About Magnets (Dowling Magnets) All About Magnets All About the Sun Balance (Thinking Fountain) The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits Boil Water Buoyancy Basics (PBS) Buoyancy Explorer Build a Robot (Children's Museum) Can You Trap The Sun? Change It Changing State (BBC) Characteristics of Material (BBC) Circuit Builder (BBC) Crayola Creativity Central (Crayola) Compare Liquids (Edu Place) Density Column) Does the Sun Influence the Temperature of the Earth (Reach Out Michigan) Ear Guitar (Exploratorium) Electricity and Magnetism (Galaxy) Electricity and Magnetism Exploring Shadows (Preschool Express) Forces and Movement (BBC) Force, Motion, and Energy (PPPST) The Force of Gravity Float and Sink (BBC) Float My Boat (PBS Kids) Friction Activity Sheet || Gases Around Us (BBC) Gets An Earful (Scholastic) Good, Good, Good Vibrations The Greenhouse Effect In A Jar Grouping and Changing Materials (BBC) Hilarious Honker (Try Science) Hotter or Colder? (BBC) How Electromagnets Work (How Stuff Works) How Magnets Work How to Separate Salt and Pepper (Andy Brain) Into the Boat (BBC) Instrument Lab Keep-A-Cube (PBS Kids) Kid Science Experiments in the Sun (Going Green) Light and Dark (BBC) Liquids || Magnetism and Electricity: WebQuest Magnets (PBS Kids) Magnets (BBC) Magnets (My School House) Magnet Madness Magnet Magic (Preschool Express) Magnet Man Magnet WebQuest Magnify It! (Science Net Links) Make Your Own Thermometer Making An Air Thermometer Marveling in Magnets Materials (BBC) May the Force Be With You! Measuring Scale Melting and Boiling Point (Skoool) Moaning Ghost Most Common States of Matter (Teacher Vision) Musical Coat Hanger (Try Science) Oddball (Fun Brain) Oil and Water (Think Quest) Oscar's Trash Collection (Sesame Street) Packing for the Park Paper Noise Plants Help Keep a House Cool Pushes and Pulls (BBC) || Ride a Balloon (NASA) Roller Coaster Builder (Foss) Rubber Guitar Salt Volcano (Exploratorium) The Science of Heat (David Darling) Science Projects About Color and Heat (eHow) Sid the Science Kids (PBS Kids) Sink or Float (Science NetLinks) Sinking Stuff (PBS Kids) Solar Heat Science Projects (eHow) Solid and Liquid (Foss) Solid, Liquid and Gases (Scholastic) Sort by Materials (Edu Place) Sorting and Using Materials Sound and Hearing (BBC) States of Matter (Classroom Connection) States of Matter (Harcourt School) StyroCello Sun or Shade Sun's Effect on Earth Suzy's World: Mix Testing Time (CATIE) Thermometers Thermometer/Temperature Worksheets Using Electricity (BBC) Variation (BBC) Water (NYU) What Absorbs More Heat? (Science Kids) What Color Is It? (Story Place) What Is A Magnet? (Magnet) Which Tool (Harcourt School) Who Am I? (Kids Planet) ||
 * 1) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Use Tools **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Use tools such as hand lenses, measurement devices, and simple arm balances to gather data about the physical properties of different objects
 * 2) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Ice Melting **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Describe what happens when ice changes from a solid to a liquid
 * 3) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Water Boils **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Describe what happens when water is heated to the point of evaporation
 * 4) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Balloon Pop **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Explain what happens when a balloon is blown up and pops
 * 5) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Effect of Sun **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Identify and explain how the sun affects objects on the surface of the earth
 * 6) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Solar Energy **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Investigate how the sun affects various objects and materials
 * 7) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Sound **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- Use a variety of objects that vibrate to demonstrate how sounds are produced
 * 8) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Sounds **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Describe the sounds produced by different types of vibrating objects
 * 9) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Magnet **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Explain how two magnets interact
 * 10) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Gravity **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Describe what happens when an object is dropped and record the observations in a science notebook
 * A Practical Experiment (Pelikan)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Embedded Inquiry
The Greenhouse Effect in a Jar How Does My Garden Grow? (Read Write Think) || Iron in CerealOur Favorite Ice Cream || Platform Scale Platform Scale: Addition Platform Scale: Subtraction || Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab The Science Explorer (Exploratorium) Science Experiments (Science Kids At Home) Student Designed Investigation Part 4 Using Excel to Analyze Simple Survey (Internet 4 Classrooms) Weird Science (Funology) Zoom Sci (PBS Kids) || ==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Embedded Tech & Engineering == Fatty Foods (PBS Kids) Five Senses (Urban) || Learning To Look || Measure It: Centimeter (Fun Brain) Measure It: Inch (Fun Brain) Neuroscience for Kids [|Nibbles....Ideas for Families] (Urban Ext Illinios) Platform Scale Platform Scale: Addition Platform Scale: Subtraction || Puff-Mobile Seeing, Hearing and Smelling the World The Senses Teaching Children About The Five Senses (Urban) Touching Young Engineers' Club Your Tongue (Kids Health ||
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> **<span class="wiki_link_ext">Make Observations ** - Use senses and simple tools to make observations
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> **<span class="wiki_link_ext">Conduct Experiment ** - Communicate interest in simple phenomena and plan for simple investigations
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> **<span class="wiki_link_ext">Report Results ** - Communicate understanding of simple data using age appropriate vocabulary
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**<span class="wiki_link_ext">Communicate Findings ** - Collect, discuss, and communicate findings from a variety of investigations
 * Boxing Weigh In (Crick Web)
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Use Tools** - Explain how simple tools are used to extend the senses, make life easier, and solve everyday problems
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Invent Products ** - Invent designs for simple products
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Measure** - Use tools to measure materials and construct simple products
 * Deliver A Message (PBS Kids)