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Dictionary Skills
Second graders use resources such as dictionaries and glossaries correctly to build word meaning and to practice all uses of their references; students also practice alphabetical order while locating information.
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Words, Words, Words
Second graders choose estimation strategies in real-world problem situations and explain the choice. They work in groups of five using three different estimation methods to find out how many words are on a page of text.
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Little Green
Pupils explore how to make the color green by mixing the two primary colors, blue and yellow.
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Discovering Solids
Second graders engage in a lesson that is about the discovery of solids. They identify using shapes like cones, spheres, cylinders, and cubes in various different situations. Students explore the classroom in order to find examples of...
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Matter Matters
Second graders listen to a teacher read aloud introducing a unit about how water changes state. They investigate the state of water as it changes from a solid, to a liquid to a gas.
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How Does a Pumpkin Grow and Glow?
Students write sequence of events needed to produce a carved jack-o-lantern.
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Reading with Expression
Students practice reading with expression. After discussing how reading with feeling and expression can enhance the text, students listen as their partner reads a story with expression. Individual students read selected passages with...
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What Is A Community?
Second graders write a collective definition of the term, "community". They create a poster illustrating their definition of community and how communities enable people to meet their basic needs and satisfy their wants. They discuss...
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Dig Into the Dictionary
Second graders explore their vocabulary by participating in a dictionary word find activity. In this vocabulary lesson, 2nd graders locate words in a dictionary based on the beginning letter which must match the teacher's...
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How Can Our Talents Be Used Together?
Students investigate their individual talents. In this togetherness lesson, students listen to the poem "Togetherness Chant" and change the final stanza from play to work. Students brainstorm how they can use their individual talents for...
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The Colors of Nature
Students explore their outdoor environment, looking for varieties of color. Color samples from the outdoor environment are collected and used to create a sample page of colors that students label.
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Where We Live
Students make a 'where we live' chart to find what's common and unique about where they live. In this living analysis lesson, students complete a chart about where they live.
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Weather Wonderland
Second graders explore the types of tools that scientists use t o study weater,
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Health Ball
Second graders participate in a game in which they discover tips for a healthy lifestyle. They discuss that the decisions they make now affect the rest of their lives. They ask any questions they have to end the lesson.
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Mindful Murals
Second graders depict the illusion of depth in an artwork, using overlapping shapes, relative size and placement of fabric on a mural. They identify with the elements of art in objects in nature, the environment, and Ringgold's mural.
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Hats off to you!
Students learn about cultures through hats. Students complete "hat" writings, puzzles, and language games around the theme.
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Yellowish Fish
Students engage in an emergent literacy activity in order to obtain the skill of phoneme awareness to become better readers. They practice blending different phonemes in order to eventually form words.
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Grinding corn in Swaziland
Students participate in grinding corn, a major part of food preparation in rural Swaziland.
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Service Auction
Students work together to raise money for a community service program by auctioning their services. They brainstorm a list of services that they can provide to parents and other members of the school community.
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Rice Wreaths
Students create rice and glue holiday wreaths in this Art activity ideal for the 1st or 2nd grade. The activity can be adapted for older or younger students and includes an ingredient list and step-by-step directions for siccessful...
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Graphing Data
Second graders examine how to make and read bar graphs. In this bar graph lesson, 2nd graders compare bar graphs to pictographs by looking at hair color survey data. They practice making a bar graph and finding the range of the data.