Life Science Teaching Resources for 2nd Grade
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Silkworm Life Cycle Poster
An educational poster displaying the life cycle stages of a silkworm.
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Butterfly Life Cycle Sort
Help your students concrete their understanding of life cycles with this interactive game.
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Living Things and Their Needs Display Banner
A classroom display banner to use on your 'Living Things and Their Needs' display board.
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Animal Fact File Worksheet
An animal fact file for students to complete when learning about a variety of animals.
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Male, Female, Baby, and Group Animal Names- Posters
5 pages of posters with animal names.
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Pets and Their Needs Posters
A set of four posters covering dogs, cats, fish and birds and their needs as domestic pets.
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Benefits of Sleep Poster
A poster examining what happens when you sleep, the benefits of good sleep and healthy sleeping patterns.
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Natural Environments - PowerPoint
A Natural Environments-themed PowerPoint to add some color and design to your classroom PowerPoint presentations.
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Wetland Word Wall Vocabulary
A set of wetland-related vocabulary word wall cards.
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Basic Food Chain Worksheet
A basic food chain worksheet for your students to complete.
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Informative Writing - Animal Research Task
Use a printable animal research organizer booklet for students to record facts about animals when learning to write informative texts.
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Easy Pumpkin Drawing Video for Kids
Use a fun and easy pumpkin drawing video for kids as a lesson hook for your 1st and 2nd grade science lessons on plants!
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Growth and Change Unit Plan
This Biological Sciences unit explores how living things grow and change. Animal offspring (including humans) are compared with their parents and plants are grown from seed in order to observe change over a period of weeks.
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Living Things and Their Needs Unit Plan
This Science unit covers a range of concepts relating to the basic needs of living things.
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Big Changes!
A 60-minute lesson in which students will develop their understanding of the concept of metamorphosis.
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A-Planting We Will Go!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will plant seeds following the procedure of the scientific method.
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Let's Think Like a Scientist
A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop an understanding of the procedures scientists use and design one segment of an experiment.
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How Do Living Things Change?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will activate prior knowledge about how living things change as they grow.
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Vital Vegetation
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate the different ways that vegetation can be beneficial.
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Habitat Diorama - Assessment Task
An inquiry-based assessment task in which students will demonstrate an understanding of the four basic needs for living things.
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Shelter Building Experiment
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how a shelter can protect a living thing.
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Living Things Need Shelter
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify why living things need shelter.
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Living Things Need Water
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate why living things need water.
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Living Things Need Energy
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify why living things need energy.
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Creating Oxygen Experiment
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how plants make oxygen.
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Living Things Need Oxygen
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify why living things need oxygen.
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What Do Living Things Need?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the four basic needs of living things.
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Living or Non-Living?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the features of living and non-living things.
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Changes, Changes Everywhere!
An assessment task in which students will demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of how living things grow and change.
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