This second grade landforms and Earth changes unit gives you the flexibility to easily move between teaching in your classroom and teaching remotely with distance learning. This complete science resource combines both the print and digital versions of a highly engaging and in-depth landforms and Earth changes unit. Students learn about landforms, fast and slow Earth changes, weathering, erosion, deposition, engineering design and more.
Inside is EVERYTHING you need to teach, practice, experiment, and assess two-three weeks of NGSS aligned lessons and labs.
The detailed lesson plans and narrated audio lessons make it easy to differentiate and easy for your students to learn independently at home, or at school. The moveable, interactive digital activities make it fun for students to practice and apply what they are learning. Includes teacher directions for using and assigning the resources in Google Classroom.
This money saving bundle makes it easy to teach science no matter where you are!
Bundle includes:
Printable unit
- A complete Teacher’s Guide with Unit Overview and Pacing Guide
- 7 detailed, step-by-step, scripted lesson plans
- 7-Lesson Teaching Power Point with vivid, ‘real life’ photos.
- Answer keys
- Essential Questions, Objectives/ Learning Target Posters
- Student science journal with activity pages for each lesson
- 14 Quick Check/Exit Tickets, in 2 formats for each lesson (short written response and fill in the blank)
- Final Assessment with optional pages for differentiation
- 7 Science investigations/labs
- Experiment planning pages
- Vocabulary lesson cards + full page posters
- 4 Literacy-based Science Centers using science content to reinforce literacy skills
Digital unit on Google Slides
- 7 Narrated lessons with Listen & Learn slides
- 7 Digital Science journal activities
- 14 Digital quizzes in multiple choice and fill in the blank formats
- Digital differentiated unit test
- 4 Digital, interactive science centers: Sequencing cause & effect, classifying, compare/contrast, applying vocabulary, solving math word problems
NOTE: You will need a free Google account or Google Classroom to access the digital version on Google Slides.
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 INVESTIGATIONS
- Name That Landform: Build and Describe Landforms
- Making Models of Landforms
- Making Maps of Models
- Mapping the Height of a Mountain: Students make 3D models and topographic maps
- Landslide Simulation
- Save the Lighthouse Erosion Lab
- Design a Windbreak to Prevent Wind Erosion
*Please see the preview for details and pictures of all materials included in the download.
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