2nd Grade Science Thematic Unit Plans

This resource is a science driven, easy to use pack to use when investigating all things pumpkin! Pumpkinology is a great way to incorporate kindergarten science standards in a fun, fall themed way.

Cut off the top of a pumpkin and let them scoop out the insides to count seeds, estimate how many counting cubes tall is a pumpkin, how many paperclips will it take to fit around the pumpkin? Will the pumpkin sink or float? What is the life cycle of a pumpkin? Color or use tissue paper to produce a tear art version to create their very own pumpkin.

I use this resource in my classroom on October 31st as part of our fall party! We investigate all things pumpkin and the grand finale is when we carve a face on the pumpkin, add in baking soda, vinegar and green food coloring to make the pumpkin explode (outside of course)! This is a day your students will remember for years to come!

Teachers can use it as a:

• Halloween party and make each investigation a station
• Week long investigation of pumpkin attributes
• Science project to let little learners estimate what they think will happen
• Fall fun pack
• Lesson on the life cycle of a pumpkin

Happy pumpkin investigating!

Interested in more pumpkin or fall kindergarten resources?

Fall Tear Art Bundle

October Write the Room Math - Real World Pictures

November Write the Room Math - Real World Pictures

Build Your Own Haunted House

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Frog Life Cycle Study Packet

This 32-page packet provides a variety of levels (for early grades) to reach each individual student. Please see preview pages and descriptions below .

33 pages total include:

1. Table of Contents

2. Can - Have - Are

3. * * * Cut & Paste Sheet with scrambled answers

4. * * * Can-Have-Are Answer Sheet

5. Vocabulary : 10 words with definitions to match

6. * * * Vocabulary Answer Sheet

7. Reflection : Connection, Opinion, Steps You Would Give to Raise a Frog Egg.

8. Word Search : 20 Words

9. Word Unscramble : 10 words to unscramble

10. Spelling : 10 + 1 Bonus words

11. * * * Spelling Test, Blank, with primary handwriting lines

12. Step By Step : First, Next, Then, Last: : include a small illustration

13. Step By Step : First, Next, Then, Last: : illustrated with shaped-writing areas

14. Design & Detail illustrating page ….

15. Sequencing : 5 labeled & illustrated life cycle squares to cut & paste in order

16. * * * Sequencing answers

17. * * * Sequencing : Blank paste sheet

18. Cause & Effect  : Fill in the Cause & Effect blanks

19. ABC Order : 20 words from the book

20. * * * ABC Order : Answer Sheet

21. Writing Prompt : with frog- shaped lined paper ...

22. Follow the instructions : coloring, addition/subtraction using photos

23. Follow the instructions : counting pictures , left/right

24. Follow the instructions : F_irst/Second/Third/Fourth ; Counting photos graph_

25. Acrostic Poem : FROGS

26. Compare & Contrast Venn Diagram: tadpole vs frog

27. Math : 12 simple addition problems

28. * * * Math : answer sheet

29. Math : 12 simple multiplication problems

30. * * * Math : answer sheet

31. Label a Frog : 7 labels with fill-in-the-blank & word box included.

32. What’s That Photo : Label 10 photos with cut & paste words

33. Seek & Color : 10 images to find & color by instructions

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Our Backyard Chickens study is fun, engaging, informative, and easy to follow! We have created seven lessons with only one required book, *Chickenology: The Ultimate Encyclopedia by Barbara Sandri and Francesco Giubbilini. *Our study is the perfect thematic unit for grades K-5! Our four children helped create this study, and we are excited to share it with your family! 

Did you know chickens do not suffer hearing loss with age? Their damaged hearing cells are able to regrow!

A Cochin chicken was imported to England around 1850 as a gift to Queen Victoria!

Highlights include

• 24 Chicken Breed Cards with fun facts!
• 18 vocabulary cards
• Activities for each lesson
• Learn how eggs are produced and how they are used around the world!
• An egg experiment
• Get an up-close look at chicken feathers.
• Chicken anatomy
• Chicken instincts
• Chickens and music!
• Chickens and their relationship to humans
• Chickens through history
• How chickens can help your own yard
• The perfect recipe for a happy henhouse!
• We share our own recipes, photos, and videos. 
• Cover art, science, history, geography, language arts, and math!

We suggest the book, Farm Anatomy, but it is not required! Thank you!

ALL ABOUT SPACE! Introduce your little ones to the amazing world of space with this set of posters about space, with real pictures! The packet includes 41 posters on vocabulary related to space.

The following vocabulary is included:

- Asteroid

- Aurora Australis

- Aurora Borealis

- Comet

- Constellation

- Crater

- Dwarf planet

- Galaxy

- Gravity

- Milky Way

- Kuiper belt

- Meteor

- Meteorite

- Moon

- Nebula

- Orbit

- Astronaut

- International Space Station

- Planet

- Rocket

- Satellite

- Solar system

- Spacecraft

- Star

- Universe

- Inner and outer planets

- Astronomer

- Telescope

- Observatory

- Sun

- Mercury

- Venus

- Earth

- Mars

- Jupiter

- Saturn

- Uranus

- Neptune

- Pluto (included in as a dwarf planet).

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Fire Safety Word Cards (Firefighter)

{Growing} Community Helpers Vocabulary Words Bundle (with real photos!)

Police officer Vocabulary Word Cards (with real photos!)

Occupations and Community Helpers Montessori 3-Part Cards

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1. Flow of Energy Adapted Notes and Review:

In this product, students will learn how animals obtain energy. They will review vocabulary words and their meanings - ecosystem and organism. Students will learn about the importance of food chains and what each link entails - first link - sun, second link - producers, consumers and how they can be carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores, and what each of those consumers means, students will learn about where they get energy from, students will also label the 1st link, 2nd link, producers, and kinds of consumers on food chains. Students will then look at 4 picture cards. They will look at each card and write how each organism gets its energy.

2. Food Chains Adapted Notes and Review:

In this product, students will learn about food chains. Notes and review have been adapted to meet students’ individual learnings needs. Students will review the process of photosynthesis, chlorophyll, and how plants made food. Students will then learn that producers make their own food by using energy from the sun that is changed into chemical energy. Students will also learn about consumers and how they get energy. Students will learn about the food chain - the sun, producers, first-level consumers, second-level consumers, third-level consumers, and decomposers and their meanings, facts about food chains and how the different levels are presented. Students will also look at the arctic food chain and the different levels as well. Students will answer comprehension questions throughout this product to ensure understanding and at the end of the product vocabulary review questions are asked.

3. Food Chains Project:

In this product, students will make a food chain mobile. They will cut out the sun, producers, and consumers cards, they will then make 3 mobiles. They will make a mobile that includes a sun, producer, and carnivore, a mobile that includes a sun, producer, and herbivore, and a mobile that includes a sun, producer, and omnivore. Students can work individually or with a partner or a group to complete this activity. Students will then research if their animal is a carnivore, herbivore, and omnivore and will label the consumer.

4. Food Webs Adapted Notes and Review:

In this product, students will learn about food webs. Notes and review have been adapted to meet students’ individual learnings needs. Students will learn what food webs are and what they look like. Students will compare food chains and food webs and discuss how they are similar and different from one another. Students will review the food chain - the sun, producers, first-level consumers, second-level consumers, third-level consumers, and decomposers. Students will look at food webs and determine the groups of food chains that are in a given food web. Students will answer comprehension questions throughout this product to ensure understanding and at the end of the product vocabulary review questions are asked.

5. Food Chains and Food Webs File Folder Activity:

In this product, students will label the following vocabulary words with their definitions - food webs, predators, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, 1st level consumers, 2nd level consumers, 3rd level consumers, producers, food chain, photosynthesis, chlorophyll, and decomposers to review or summarize all that they learned about food chains and food webs. Students will also match the vocabulary words - food chain and food web with the correct diagram. Students will then match the following vocabulary words with the photosynthesis diagram to show that they understand the process of photosynthesis - photosynthesis, light energy, carbon dioxide, oxygen, sugar, and water.

6. Food Chains and Food Webs Project:

In this product, students will have the opportunity to complete 2 projects - a food chain and and food web project. Students will cut out the pictures and will glue them on a poster board to make a good chain and a food web. When students have completed the food chain and food web project, there are 2 rubrics that will rate the students on each project. Rubric categories include the food chain/web display, food chain/web labeling, and staying on task.

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Food Chains and Food Webs Adapted Notes and Project Templates:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Food-Chains-and-Food-Webs-Adapted-Notes-and-Project-Templates-Bundle-11002166

Flow of Energy Adapted Notes and Review:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Flow-of-Energy-Adapted-Notes-and-Review-10990067

Food Chains Adapted Notes and Review:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Food-Chains-Adapted-Notes-and-Review-10991863

Food Webs Adapted Notes and Review:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Food-Webs-Adapted-Notes-and-Review-10991926

Food Chains and Food Webs Project:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Food-Chains-and-Food-Webs-Project-10992004

Food Chain Mobile Project:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Food-Chain-Mobile-Template-10992054

Food Chains and Food Webs File Folder Activity

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Food-Chains-and-Food-Webs-File-Folder-Activity-10995671

iCVC Early Learning St Patrick's Day

Consonant Vowel Consonant (CVC) Strategies

• 1 Early Learner Word Search
• 6 Early Learner Picture, Writing, and Sentence Practice
• 6 Early Learner Modified Picture, Writing, and Sentence Practice
• 2 Early Learner Word Practice
• 2 Early Learner Modified Word Practice
• 2 Scavenger Hunt Sheets- For Early Learners St Patrick's Day
• 12 Photo Sheets for Early Learner Scavenger Hunt
• 1 Early Learner Photo & Word Book with 16 pages
• 1 Syllables Activity
• 1 Pot of Dreams Writing Engagement Activity
• 2 Science Experiments
• 2 Science Observation & Explanation Sheets
• Quizlet- Digital Practice for students & parents

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Teachers Helping Teachers:

Vocabulary instruction is an important component of literacy instruction in preschool. It also provides children with an understanding of a variety of words which in turn can help with later reading comprehension. Vocabulary instruction is valuable as it builds the foundation for later reading skills, such as comprehension. A child needs to be taught vocabulary in many different ways.

Using Quizlet At The Younger Levels:

Below you are going to find a nice review quizlet made by icvc.early.learning that seeks to provide a great review resource for you.

QUIZLET: https://quizlet.com/891000310/icvc-early-learning-st-patricks-day-flash-cards/?i=3b2vg\&x=1jqt

Save the link and use it to do any or all of the following:

*Create Review flashcards to send home of the Early Learner words and the sentences tried out in class

*You can play games with them

*Share the link with parents- they can hit play in the car or at home to have the flashcards flip through and review items learned in class

*You can hit play to preview the terms and sentences or review them with your kiddos

*I LOVE doing repeat-after-me activities where the Quizlet reads it and then my kiddos repeat it.

*projecting onto your board, then sounding out the words together is key with the focus being on JUST the words and sentences without the busy pictures and activities around them.

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