Landforms, Fast & Slow Earth Changes Second Grade Science Unit - NGSS
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This resource is an in-depth 2nd grade landforms and earth changes unit with detailed, science lesson plans and lab experiments. Students learn features of landforms and bodies of water, explore weathering, erosion, and deposition through lab experiments, and gain understanding of the causes and effects of Earth changes and events that occur both quickly and slowly. Students explore tools people use to prevent or slow wind and water from changing the shape of the land.
Students are introduced to science practices, such as planning and carrying out investigations, making observations, building and testing models, collecting and analyzing data, and designing solutions to real-world problems.
The 7 high-interest lessons in this unit use real photographs in a detailed teaching Power Point. Each lesson is followed by science journal and center activities, partner discussion questions, videos, and creative hands-on lab investigations.
Click here for a digital companion to this unit with narrated audio lessons on Google Slides.
Aligned to 2nd grade NGSS and commonly taught state science standards, this flexible 3 week unit includes step-by-step lesson plans and picture directions for each lesson and lab. The unit can be shortened to two weeks, depending on the number of labs you choose to do. A multitude of high quality focus wall resources, posters, vocabulary and objective cards, science center activities, and more, support each lesson.
What's inside:
-Unit planning binder with dividers and tabs
-Teacher Guide with Unit Overview and Pacing Guide
-3 weeks of detailed, step-by-step, scripted lesson plans
-7-Lesson Teaching Power Point with extension activity slides after each lesson.
-7 Hands-on lab investigations
-31 Full-page Landforms & Earth Changes Posters using real photos
-Guiding Questions, Learning Target posters, Lesson objective cards
-Student science journal with follow-up practice pages for each lesson
-Quick Check/Exit Tickets in 2 formats for each lesson (short written response or fill in the blank)
-Final Assessment with optional pages for differentiation
-Easy grade answer keys for all resources
-Related read aloud book list and video links media guide
4 Literacy and Math-Based Science Centers
Reinforce science content as students practice these literacy & math skills:
Sequencing Cause & Effect
Classifying
Comparing & Contrasting
Applying Vocabulary
Solving Math Word Problems
Lesson Topics
Lesson 1: Describing Earth’s Land
Lesson 2: Exploring Earth’s Water
Lesson 3: Mapping Land & Water
Lesson 4: Earth’s Processes-Fast Changes
Lesson 5: Earth’s Processes-Slow Changes
Lesson 6: People Change the Earth
Lesson 7: Protecting Earth’s Land and Water
Lab Experiments/Investigations
Students explore, build models, recreate simulations and design solutions in the following labs:
Design a Landform Island using salt dough or Air Dry clay
Map & Measure Distances
Comparing Features of Landforms with simple Play-Doh models
How Do You Map a Mountain? Making Topographic maps
Save the Lighthouse Erosion Lab
How Do Plants Prevent Landslides? Landslide simulation
Design & Build a Windbreak Wind Erosion Lab
*Please see the preview for details and pictures of all materials and labs included in the download.
CLICK HERE for a list of materials needed to do the investigations & labs.
Note: This is a very large unit that downloads as a zipped folder with 3 separate files inside. CLICK HERE for directions to open a ZIP file.
Happy teaching!
Linda Kamp
Around the Kampfire
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Additional 2nd Grade Science Units:
Scientists & The Scientific Method Gr 2-3
Plant & Animals Needs and Life Cycles
Landforms Building & Writing Project
2nd Grade DIGITAL Science Units with Audio Lessons:
Scientists & The Scientific Method Digital
Earth Changes & Landforms Digital
Plant & Animal Needs and Life Cycles Digital
2nd grade science leveled reading passages:
Properties of Matter PRINT & DIGITAL
Landforms & Earth Changes PRINT & DIGITAL
Habitats & Ecosystems PRINT & DIGITAL
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THIRD GRADE TEACHERS
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