Grade 2 Science
A free Grade 2 course from the PGAMO Free K–12 School, built on Core Knowledge Science. Units: Properties of Matter, Organisms and Their Habitats, Exploring Land and Water, Electricity and Magnetism, Human Cells and Digestion.
Every lesson has the chapter’s pages to read right on screen, the Big Question, words to know, talk-it-over questions with answers for the teacher, and activity pages to print. Each unit ends with a short quiz, and every unit has a printable study pack for learning offline.
This course is based on an original work of the Core Knowledge® Foundation (www.coreknowledge.org) made available through licensing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This does not in any way imply that the Core Knowledge Foundation endorses this work. PGAMO added the lesson pages, study packs and quizzes layout, and shares them under the same license. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Core Knowledge Science. Free for everyone — this course may never be sold.
Features
- 72 lessons in 5 units
- The books’ pages right in each lesson
- Unit quizzes
- Printable offline study packs
Target audiences
- Grade 2 students
- Homeschool families and co-ops
Requirements
- Nothing to buy — every book is included free
- A parent or teacher to read and talk with younger students
Curriculum
- 6 Sections
- 78 Lessons
- 36 Weeks
- Start here1
- Unit 1: Properties of Matter16
- 2.1Getting started: Meet the Big Question30 Minutes
- 2.2Lesson 1.1: What Is in Our Backpacks?30 Minutes
- 2.3Lesson 1.2: Matter Takes Up Space30 Minutes
- 2.4Lesson 1.3: How Do We Describe Things?30 Minutes
- 2.5Lesson 1.4: Temperature and Matter30 Minutes
- 2.6Lesson 1.5: Lesson 1 Roundup: Sorting and Grouping Matter30 Minutes
- 2.7Lesson 2.1: A Melty Mess30 Minutes
- 2.8Lesson 2.2: Changing the Temperature of Water30 Minutes
- 2.9Lesson 2.3: Lesson 2 Roundup: Investigating Changes to Matter30 Minutes
- 2.10Lesson 3.1: How Materials Hold Water30 Minutes
- 2.11Lesson 3.2: Lesson 3 Roundup: What Properties Make Materials Useful?30 Minutes
- 2.12Lesson 4.1: Pieces and Parts30 Minutes
- 2.13Lesson 4.2: What Are the Parts of a Ballpoint Pen?30 Minutes
- 2.14Lesson 4.3: Lesson 4 Roundup: Build It Up, Take It Down30 Minutes
- 2.15Unit 1 review and assessment45 Minutes
- 2.16Unit 1 words quiz: Properties of Matter20 Minutes12 Questions
- Unit 2: Organisms and Their Habitats19
- 3.1Getting started: Meet the Big Question30 Minutes
- 3.2Lesson 1.1: Types of Plants Around Me30 Minutes
- 3.3Lesson 1.2: Plants in Different Places30 Minutes
- 3.4Lesson 1.3: Plant Habitats30 Minutes
- 3.5Lesson 1.4: Lesson 1 Roundup: Plants and Butterflies30 Minutes
- 3.6Lesson 2.1: Finding Out What Plants Need30 Minutes
- 3.7Lesson 2.2: Testing What Plants Need30 Minutes
- 3.8Lesson 2.3: Collecting Data About What Plants Need30 Minutes
- 3.9Lesson 2.4: What Plants Need30 Minutes
- 3.10Lesson 2.5: Lesson 2 Roundup: Plants and Sunlight and Water30 Minutes
- 3.11Lesson 3.1: Types of Animals Around Me30 Minutes
- 3.12Lesson 3.2: Animals in a Habitat30 Minutes
- 3.13Lesson 3.3: Animal Habitats30 Minutes
- 3.14Lesson 3.4: Lesson 3 Roundup: Butterflies and Other Animals30 Minutes
- 3.15Lesson 4.1: Plants Need Animals30 Minutes
- 3.16Lesson 4.2: Animals Need Plants30 Minutes
- 3.17Lesson 4.3: Lesson 4 Roundup: Plants and Animals Depend on Each Other30 Minutes
- 3.18Unit 2 review and assessment45 Minutes
- 3.19Unit 2 words quiz: Organisms and Their Habitats20 Minutes12 Questions
- Unit 3: Exploring Land and Water26
- 4.1Getting started: Meet the Big Question30 Minutes
- 4.2Lesson 1.1: What Are Hills and Mountains?30 Minutes
- 4.3Lesson 1.2: What Are Weathering and Erosion?30 Minutes
- 4.4Lesson 1.3: Weathering and Erosion Problems30 Minutes
- 4.5Lesson 1.4: What Keeps the Water Out?30 Minutes
- 4.6Lesson 2.1: What Are Glaciers and Valleys?30 Minutes
- 4.7Lesson 2.2: Let’s Map It!30 Minutes
- 4.8Lesson 2.3: How Does Water Flow?30 Minutes
- 4.9Lesson 2.4: What Does Water Move?30 Minutes
- 4.10Lesson 2.5: Where Can We Find Water?30 Minutes
- 4.11Lesson 2.6: Modeling Land and Water Features30 Minutes
- 4.12Lesson 3.1: What Is Yellowstone National Park?30 Minutes
- 4.13Lesson 3.2: Geysers and Groundwater30 Minutes
- 4.14Lesson 3.3: What Are Volcanoes?30 Minutes
- 4.15Lesson 3.4: Modeling Volcanoes and Earthquakes30 Minutes
- 4.16Lesson 4.1: What Is Yosemite National Park?30 Minutes
- 4.17Lesson 4.2: What Is a Landslide?30 Minutes
- 4.18Lesson 4.3: Preventing Landslides30 Minutes
- 4.19Lesson 5.1: What Is Arches National Park?30 Minutes
- 4.20Lesson 5.2: How Can Sandstone Be Shaped?30 Minutes
- 4.21Lesson 6.1: What Is Cape Cod National Seashore?30 Minutes
- 4.22Lesson 6.2: Sand on the Move!30 Minutes
- 4.23Lesson 6.3: Sand Dunes and Beaches30 Minutes
- 4.24Lesson 6.4: Protecting Sand Dunes30 Minutes
- 4.25Unit 3 review and assessment45 Minutes
- 4.26Unit 3 words quiz: Exploring Land and Water20 Minutes12 Questions
- Unit 4: Electricity and Magnetism12
- 5.1Lesson 1: What Is Lightning?30 Minutes
- 5.2Lesson 2: What Has Electricity?30 Minutes
- 5.3Lesson 3: What Are the Types of Electricity?30 Minutes
- 5.4Lesson 4: It’s Not Magic…It’s Static!30 Minutes
- 5.5Lesson 5: What Are the Sources of Electricity?30 Minutes
- 5.6Lesson 6: What Is a Circuit?30 Minutes
- 5.7Lesson 7: Building a Simple Circuit30 Minutes
- 5.8Lesson 8: Magnets and Electricity30 Minutes
- 5.9Lesson 9: Magnets and Rotating Motion30 Minutes
- 5.10Lesson 10: Science in Action: A Day with an Electrician30 Minutes
- 5.11Unit 4 review and assessment45 Minutes
- 5.12Unit 4 words quiz: Electricity and Magnetism20 Minutes12 Questions
- Unit 5: Human Cells and Digestion9
- 6.1Lesson 1: Why Do We Get Hungry?30 Minutes
- 6.2Lesson 2: What Is the Digestive System?30 Minutes
- 6.3Lesson 3: Food Is Fuel30 Minutes
- 6.4Lesson 4: Cells Work Together30 Minutes
- 6.5Lesson 5: Tissues Make Up Organs30 Minutes
- 6.6Lesson 6: Body Wastes30 Minutes
- 6.7Lesson 7: Science in Action: Nutrition and Staying Well30 Minutes
- 6.8Unit 5 review and assessment45 Minutes
- 6.9Unit 5 words quiz: Human Cells and Digestion20 Minutes12 Questions
Instructor

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