Florida Grade 2 science standards

SC.2.E.7.1 Compare and describe changing patterns in nature that repeat themselves, such as weather conditions including temperature and precipitation, day to day and season to season.

Lessons: Weather Watchers: What Will the Sky Do Today? (What's the weather like today?, Which way is the wind blowing?, How much rain fell?)

Practice: Weather Watchers: What Will the Sky Do Today? workbook · Stars and the Night Sky workbook · Light and Shadows workbook

SC.2.E.7.2 Investigate by observing and measuring that the Sun's energy directly and indirectly warms the water, land, and air (a lower-grade match: sun and shade temperatures).

Lessons: Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better

Practice: Light and Shadows workbook · Groundhog Day Shadow Science

SC.2.E.7.3 Investigate, observe and describe how water left in an open container evaporates, but water in a closed container does not (a lower-grade match: the puddle race and cup lesson).

Lessons: Solids, Liquids and Gases (Where does a puddle go?, Why does ice float?)

Practice: Solids, Liquids and Gases workbook · Earth and Sky at Home workbook · Kitchen Chemistry for Families workbook · Winter Science at Home workbook · Living with Water: Salt, Rice and the Mekong workbook

SC.2.E.7.4 Investigate that air is all around us and that moving air is wind.

Lessons: Weather Watchers: What Will the Sky Do Today? (What's the weather like today?, Which way is the wind blowing?, How much rain fell?)

Practice: Weather Watchers: What Will the Sky Do Today? workbook

SC.2.L.16.1 Observe and describe major stages in the life cycles of plants, including beans. Children journal a bean's early growth (an adjacent-grade match).

Lessons: Plants and Seeds: What Does a Seed Need? (What's inside a seed?, What does a seed need to grow?, Why do plants grow toward the window?)

Practice: Who Lives Here? workbook

SC.2.P.8.1 Observe and measure objects in terms of their properties, including sinking or floating in water (a lower-grade match for the lava-lamp lesson).

Lessons: Kitchen Chemistry for Families

Practice: Kitchen Chemistry for Families workbook · Test It, Choose It: Materials workbook

SC.2.P.8.3 Recognize that solids have a definite shape and that liquids and gases take the shape of their container. Oobleck acts like both (a lower-grade match).

Lessons: Kitchen Chemistry for Families

Practice: Kitchen Chemistry for Families workbook · Test It, Choose It: Materials workbook

SC.2.P.8.4 Observe and describe water in its solid, liquid, and gaseous states (a lower-grade match).

Lessons: Winter Science at Home (Can you make frost in a can?, Why does salt melt ice?, What's inside a snowflake?)

Practice: Winter Science at Home workbook

SC.2.P.8.5 Measure and compare temperatures taken every day at the same time (a lower-grade match for the schoolyard thermometer survey).

Lessons: Weather Detectives (Why does a chinook feel like spring in January?, Is it hotter by the slide?, Why do farmers care about the last frost?)

Practice: Weather Detectives workbook · Weather Watchers: What Will the Sky Do Today? workbook

SC.2.P.13.2 Demonstrate that magnets can be used to make some things move without touching them (a lower-grade match; the magnet gadget design).

Lessons: Pushes, Pulls and Magnets (Why does a ball stop rolling?, Can a magnet work through a table?, How far will a paper clip jump?)

Practice: Pushes, Pulls and Magnets workbook

SC.2.P.13.4 Demonstrate that the greater the force (push or pull) applied to an object, the greater the change in motion (the Grade 2 version of the same idea, used in the plane throws).

Lessons: Build It, Launch It (Can you drop an egg without breaking it?, What makes a paper plane fly farthest?, How does a rocket push itself into space?)

Practice: Build It, Launch It workbook