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This second grade Landforms and Earth Changes science resource is a comprehensive 3-week science unit carefully designed with literally everything you need to teach NGSS and many state science standards all in one, in-depth resource.
This resource is carefully aligned to 2nd grade NGSS The History of Planet Earth, and these standards: DCI ESS1.C, 2-ESS2.C, 2-ESS2-2, 2-ESS2-3 2-ESS2.B, 2-ESS2-1. It includes 15 days of highly detailed lessons on these topics:
Lesson Topics:
- Describing Earth’s Land
- Exploring Earth’s Water
- Mapping Earth’s Land & Water
- Fast Earth Changes
- Slow Earth Changes-Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
- Ways People Change the Earth
- Protecting Earth’s Land and Water
This unit is also available bundled with a digital version of the student activities and narrated audio lessons. CLICK HERE.
Each ready to teach lesson comes with a highly engaging instructional PowerPoint, detailed, scripted lesson plans, response journal activities, differentiated quizzes, hands-on investigations and simple lab activities that are actually do-able in your classroom.
The lessons also include vocabulary posters, guiding questions, and learning objectives display cards as well as related videos for each lesson. Literacy and math based science centers make it easy to integrate science and reinforce the lessons during other subjects.
Assessments are easy to differentiate using one of two quiz formats: the fill in the blank option or the short, written response format. At the end of the unit students are assessed with a comprehensive unit test.
Inside the unit:
- A complete Teacher’s Guide with a 25-day Pacing Guide that can be shortened to fit your schedule
- Standards alignment pages for each lesson
- Teacher planning binder with cover and sections
- 15 Days of detailed, scripted lesson plans.
- 7 Hands-on investigations and STEM labs with guided lab procedures and step-by-step directions with photos.
- An in-depth Teaching PowerPoint with embedded videos
- Essential questions posters and learning target cards
- Student journal/workbook
- Science based reading passage
- Vocabulary cards + full page vocabulary posters
- Quizzes for each lesson in 2 formats (short written response or fill in the blank) with answer keys
- Final Unit Test & Answer Key
- Videos for each lesson – You will need access to YouTube to view the videos.
- BONUS Bulletin board set
Lab Experiments/ Investigations
Students explore weathering and erosion, make topographic maps, measure land masses, build models and simulations, and conduct investigations in the following labs:
- Name That Landform
- Building Landform Models
- Mapping a Mountain: Building Topographic Maps
- Landslide Simulation
- Preventing Wind Erosion: Design a Windbreak
- How Do Ocean Wave Affect A Shoreline?
4 Literacy and Math-Based Science Centers
Reinforce science content as students practice these literacy & math skills:
- Sequencing Causes & Effects
- Classifying Earth Changes
- Applying Vocabulary
- Map-related Math Word Problems
This unit is also available in a yearlong bundle of 2nd grade science curriculum > > CLICK HERE.
*Please see the preview for details and pictures of all resources included in this unit.
CLICK HERE for a list of materials needed to do the labs.
Next Generation Science Standards Addressed:
SEP.2 Developing and Using Models
SEP.6 Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
SEP.8 Obtaining, Evaluating and Communicating Information
ESS2.B Plate Tectonics and large-Scale System Interactions
ESS2.C The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes
CCC.2 Cause and Effect
Note: This is a very large unit that downloads as a zipped (ZIP) folder with 3 separate files inside. CLICK HERE for directions to open a ZIP file.
Happy teaching!
Linda Kamp
Around the Kampfire
Click here to see all 3rd grade science units.
Click here to see all 2nd grade science units.
2nd grade science units available:
Scientists & the Scientific Method
Structure & Properties of Matter
Plant & Animal Interdependence
2nd grade DIGITAL units with audio lessons:
Scientists & Scientific Method
Plant & Animal Interdependence & Life Cycles
Related 2nd grade science readers & passages:
Terms of Use © Linda Kamp. This product may not be posted on a public website or shared Drive where others can download it. It may not be used on Outschool or any commercial teaching or tutoring platform. You may not translate or resell this resource.
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Description
This second grade Landforms and Earth Changes science resource is a comprehensive 3-week science unit carefully designed with literally everything you need to teach NGSS and many state science standards all in one, in-depth resource.
This resource is carefully aligned to 2nd grade NGSS The History of Planet Earth, and these standards: DCI ESS1.C, 2-ESS2.C, 2-ESS2-2, 2-ESS2-3 2-ESS2.B, 2-ESS2-1. It includes 15 days of highly detailed lessons on these topics:
Lesson Topics:
- Describing Earth’s Land
- Exploring Earth’s Water
- Mapping Earth’s Land & Water
- Fast Earth Changes
- Slow Earth Changes-Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
- Ways People Change the Earth
- Protecting Earth’s Land and Water
This unit is also available bundled with a digital version of the student activities and narrated audio lessons. CLICK HERE.
Each ready to teach lesson comes with a highly engaging instructional PowerPoint, detailed, scripted lesson plans, response journal activities, differentiated quizzes, hands-on investigations and simple lab activities that are actually do-able in your classroom.
The lessons also include vocabulary posters, guiding questions, and learning objectives display cards as well as related videos for each lesson. Literacy and math based science centers make it easy to integrate science and reinforce the lessons during other subjects.
Assessments are easy to differentiate using one of two quiz formats: the fill in the blank option or the short, written response format. At the end of the unit students are assessed with a comprehensive unit test.
Inside the unit:
- A complete Teacher’s Guide with a 25-day Pacing Guide that can be shortened to fit your schedule
- Standards alignment pages for each lesson
- Teacher planning binder with cover and sections
- 15 Days of detailed, scripted lesson plans.
- 7 Hands-on investigations and STEM labs with guided lab procedures and step-by-step directions with photos.
- An in-depth Teaching PowerPoint with embedded videos
- Essential questions posters and learning target cards
- Student journal/workbook
- Science based reading passage
- Vocabulary cards + full page vocabulary posters
- Quizzes for each lesson in 2 formats (short written response or fill in the blank) with answer keys
- Final Unit Test & Answer Key
- Videos for each lesson – You will need access to YouTube to view the videos.
- BONUS Bulletin board set
Lab Experiments/ Investigations
Students explore weathering and erosion, make topographic maps, measure land masses, build models and simulations, and conduct investigations in the following labs:
- Name That Landform
- Building Landform Models
- Mapping a Mountain: Building Topographic Maps
- Landslide Simulation
- Preventing Wind Erosion: Design a Windbreak
- How Do Ocean Wave Affect A Shoreline?
4 Literacy and Math-Based Science Centers
Reinforce science content as students practice these literacy & math skills:
- Sequencing Causes & Effects
- Classifying Earth Changes
- Applying Vocabulary
- Map-related Math Word Problems
This unit is also available in a yearlong bundle of 2nd grade science curriculum > > CLICK HERE.
*Please see the preview for details and pictures of all resources included in this unit.
CLICK HERE for a list of materials needed to do the labs.
Next Generation Science Standards Addressed:
SEP.2 Developing and Using Models
SEP.6 Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
SEP.8 Obtaining, Evaluating and Communicating Information
ESS2.B Plate Tectonics and large-Scale System Interactions
ESS2.C The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes
CCC.2 Cause and Effect
Note: This is a very large unit that downloads as a zipped (ZIP) folder with 3 separate files inside. CLICK HERE for directions to open a ZIP file.
Happy teaching!
Linda Kamp
Around the Kampfire
Click here to see all 3rd grade science units.
Click here to see all 2nd grade science units.
2nd grade science units available:
Scientists & the Scientific Method
Structure & Properties of Matter
Plant & Animal Interdependence
2nd grade DIGITAL units with audio lessons:
Scientists & Scientific Method
Plant & Animal Interdependence & Life Cycles
Related 2nd grade science readers & passages:
Terms of Use © Linda Kamp. This product may not be posted on a public website or shared Drive where others can download it. It may not be used on Outschool or any commercial teaching or tutoring platform. You may not translate or resell this resource.
