Grade 2 Science
6 units matched to the New Brunswick Curriculum.
Learning focus
- Literacies and Communications: Communicative Practices. Examine how language learning is beneficial.
- Literacies and Communications: Multimodal Literacies. Refer to environmental print in multiple languages.
- Literacies and Communications: Literate Identities. Demonstrate being a reader, writer, and communicator in multiple languages.
- Well-Being: Emotional Health and Positive Identities. Explore activities that foster enjoyment and well-being.
- Well-Being: Belonging and Interconnectedness. Define and express needs, wants, and choices.
- Well-Being: Physical Health and Active Participation. Analyze personal safety and healthy practices.
- Play and Playfulness: Imagination and Creativity. Practise using flexible and fluid thinking in new and familiar situations.
- Play and Playfulness: Exploration and Problem Solving. Negotiate, compromise, and work together.
- Play and Playfulness: Play and Inquiry. Engage in activities that introduce elements of risk, novelty, and the unknown.
- Diversity and Social Responsibility: Inclusiveness and Equity. Honour differences and uniqueness.
- Diversity and Social Responsibility: Democratic Practices. Act as responsible and responsive community members.
- Diversity and Social Responsibility: Sustainable Futures. Recognize patterns in nature.
Units
Unit 1
Life Cycles
Life cycles of butterflies, frogs and BC salmon, and how babies compare with their parents.
Skill descriptor: Diversity and Social Responsibility: Sustainable Futures · recognizing patterns in the life cycles of animals
Unit 2
Animal Adaptations
Body features (fur, quills, beaks, camouflage) and behaviours (hibernating, migrating, storing food) that help animals survive, and which features change as animals grow.
Skill descriptor: Diversity and Social Responsibility: Sustainable Futures · recognizing patterns in how animals adapt
Unit 3
Water World
The water cycle, where our water comes from, and simple ways to save water and keep rivers clean.
Skill descriptor: Well-Being: Belonging and Interconnectedness · how water is connected to us and our environment
Unit 4
Solids & Liquids
Sorting solids and liquids, describing melting, freezing and boiling, and changes that can or can't be undone.
Skill descriptor: Play and Playfulness: Exploration and Problem Solving · gathering evidence about solids and liquids
Unit 5
Push & Pull
Pushes and pulls, magnets, gravity, and how surfaces slow things down.
Skill descriptor: Play and Playfulness: Exploration and Problem Solving · gathering evidence about forces and motion
Unit 6
Simple Machines
The six simple machines (lever, inclined plane, wedge, pulley, wheel and axle, screw), where we see them every day, and how they make a job take less effort.
Skill descriptor: Play and Playfulness: Exploration and Problem Solving · exploring how simple machines make jobs easier
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