This second grade habitats and ecosystems bundle is an in-depth, 3-week science resource carefully designed with literally everything you need to teach NGSS and many state science standards for 2nd grade Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems. The unit addresses these standards: 2-LS4-1, 2-LS4.D.
This bundle includes both the printable and the digital versions of the second grade habitats and ecosystems units. You will need a Google account or Google Classroom to access the digital versions on Google Slides. You will need access to YouTube to play the audio lessons.
This science bundle includes 15 days of highly engaging science lessons and narrated audio slides on these topics:
Lesson Topics:
- Identifying Habitats & Ecosystems
- Exploring Land Habitats
- Adapting to Land Habitats
- Exploring Water Habitats
- Adapting to Water Habitats
- Comparing Habitat Diversity
- Habitat Interdependence
- Protecting Habitats
Each ready to teach lesson comes with a highly engaging instructional PowerPoint, detailed, scripted lesson plans, response journal activities, differentiated quizzes, and hands-on experiments.
Printable unit includes:
- A complete Teacher’s Guide with a 15-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
- 6 Hands-on investigations with guided lab procedures and step-by-step directions with photos.
- An in-depth Teaching PowerPoint
- Essential questions posters and learning target cards
- Guiding questions & objectives cards
- Student journal/workbook
- Vocabulary cards + full page posters
- 4 Literacy and math-based science centers
- Quizzes for each lesson in 2 formats (short written response or fill in the blank) with answer keys
- Final unit test with optional pages for differentiation & answer keys
- Related video links
Lab Experiments/ Investigations
Students explore micro-habitats, simulate and demonstrate adaptations, build models, and conduct investigations in the following labs:
- What Lives At School? Exploring Micro-habitats
- How Do Fish Breathe Underwater? Gill demonstration
- Build a Model Water Plant
- Design & Build a Land and Water Habitat on a Plate
- How Do Water Animals Stay Warm? Blubber Demonstration
- Comparing Habitat Diversity with simple models
Habitats/Biomes Addressed
Deserts, rainforests, deciduous, coniferous, and temperate forests, grasslands, tundras, oceans, tide pools, coral reefs, wetlands, swamps, marshes, rivers, and streams.
Students explore ecosystems, micro-habitats and urban habitats. They discover ways ecologists, engineers, and other scientists collaborate to protect and restore endangered habitats.
4 Science Centers (in both printable + digital format)
Reinforce science content as students practice these math & literacy skills:
- Cause & Effect
- Sorting & Classifying
- Applying Vocabulary
- Math word problems using science content
Digital unit includes the following on Google Slides:
- 7 Narrated lessons with audio slides (You will need access to YouTube to play the audio files.)
- 7 Interactive journal activities
- 14 Quick Check quizzes in multiple choice and fill in the blank formats
- Differentiated unit test
- Interactive extension activities
- Teacher directions for using and assigning the digital resources in Google Classroom
*Please see the preview of both units for details and pictures of all resources included in this bundle.
CLICK HERE for a list of materials needed to do the labs.
Second Grade Science BUNDLES
Scientists & the Scientific Method
Plant & Animal Needs/Life Cycles
CLICK HERE for all 2nd grade science units
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