Texas Grade 2 science standards

2.8(A) Demonstrate and explain that sound is made by vibrating matter.

Lessons: Sound: Can You See a Sound? (Can you see a sound?, Can a string carry your voice?, How do you make a high note or a low note?)

Practice: Sound: Can You See a Sound? workbook · Grade 4 Sound: Vibrations, Pitch and Echoes

2.8(C) Design and build a device using tools and materials that uses sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance (cup-and-string telephone).

Lessons: Sound: Can You See a Sound? (Can you see a sound?, Can a string carry your voice?, How do you make a high note or a low note?)

Practice: Sound: Can You See a Sound? workbook

2.10(B) Measure, record, and graph weather information, including temperature and precipitation (an adjacent-grade match; temperature only).

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?) · 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

2.13(A) Identify the roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds of plants. Children open a bean and label its parts (partial, from the Grade 2 outcome).

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: Flowers, Fruit and Seeds: How Plants Make More Plants workbook · How Your Body Works workbook · Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable workbook · Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? workbook · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm workbook · Groundhog Day Shadow Science