In this short video, students learn about seashells and the creatures that use them on the coast of North Carolina.

In this short video, students learn about the butterfly life cycle and how they can help protect and take care of butterflies and moths in their own neighborhood.

In this lesson, students learn about how chickens hatch from eggs. They will then use clay to create models of eggs, hatchings, and chicks.

This unit was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 2nd Grade Science.

The resource is a mutli-day hyperdoc to use as a whole unit of study on Saving the Sea Turtles. The unit includes ideas for incorporating opinion writing on why/how we can help and save the sea turtles. The unit includes making sea turtle bracelets to sell to benefit the North Carolina ea Turtle Aquarium.

Resources needed: 1:1 devices; access to print and digital materials, sites; posterboard, paper markers; iPad for Chatterpix; paper, pencils; 

Students listen to a read-aloud of the Eric Carle picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Then they watch a time-lapse video of the monarch butterfly life cycle and create their own picture books.

Students will observe physical and behavioral traits of a "mystery organism" to discover that all offspring do not resemble their parents. Students will observe the organism and draw, label, and write about its habitat. Supplemental resources for this lesson can be found as separate entries in the collection. They are identified as "What Will I Be When I Grow Up?: Name of Resource."

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "What Will I Be When I Grow Up?" It is a performance task that can be used to assess student understanding of the concepts addressed in the lesson. Students are asked to create a card sort to illustrate and identify each stage in the life cycle of an assigned organism and compare this organism's life cycle with that of a different organism being studied in class.

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "What Will I Be When I Grow Up?" It is a series of images showing the three stages in the life cycle of a moth.

Learn what a pollinator is, and why they are important. Look at some pollinator examples and some pollinator plants, then try to create your own pollinator u...