This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 2nd Grade Science content.

This resource accompanies our Rethink 2nd Grade Science Matter- Properties & Change unit. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.

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

This virtual field trip from Historic Bath State Site is a fun way to learn more about a kid's life in the 18th century. The field trip packet contains ,links to YouTube videos of costumed interpreters demonstrating historic activities, pre- and post-watch content for educators that provide context and engagement, and follow-up activities (games, crafts, and coloring pages). Live Q&A can be booked as part of the field trip as well.

This article provides several simple, fun experiments for elementary students to investigate what happens to solids, liquids, and gases when they are heated.

This is the fifth lesson in the unit Weather Trackers (http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/unitplan/11468.htm). This is a fun and entertaining lesson on temperature. Students learn about temperature using hands-on activities and games.

This resource supports the English language development of English language learners. This book provides different examples of the different forms of water, liquid, solid, and gas, with pictures.

Students use water to explore its properties as a solid, liquid or gas.

This is lesson one of the unit Weather Trackers (http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/unitplan/11468.htm). Students learn by observation and hands-on activities the act of water changing state from a solid to a liquid to a gas.

In this activity, students use their senses to explore objects before and after heating.

This is the educator's guide for a set of activities that teach students about humans' endeavors to return to the moon. The emphasis is for students to understand that engineers must "imagine and plan" before they begin to build and experiment. Each activity features objectives, a list of materials, educator information, procedures, and student worksheets. Students should work in teams to complete the activities. Note: Activities do not align to all objectives that are listed; specific activities align to specific objectives.

We did an experiment to see what happens when you dump warm water over peppermints. Here is the intro that I posted on Class Dojo so that my students could put their predictions in the comments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpeQjneyOmQ&feature=youtu.be

Here is the result
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imRbfUNlm00&feature=youtu.be

In this activity, students test the rate that different shapes of ice cubes melt.

In this activity, students learn about the similarities and differences in water in its solid and liquid forms.

In this activity, students investigate states of matter and how heating and cooling affects different materials by making ice cream.

In this lesson, students will observe, measure, and describe water as it changes state. Students will work in pairs to use writing and illustrations to record their observations of ice melting to water and water freezing to ice.

In this lesson, students will observe, measure, and describe water, chocolate, and margarine as they change state. Students will make observations about the amounts of these materials before and after freezing and melting.

This interactive water cycle diagram illustrates and describes how water moves through and between locations on Earth.

In this lesson, students will observe water in different forms as the teacher performs demonstrations of melting, evaporation, and boiling. Students will record their observations in their science journals.

This lesson is the eighth lesson in the unit Weather Trackers (http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/unitplan/11468.htm). The activities in this lesson serve as a comprehensive review for the unit on weather. Students review weather concepts through interactive games, role-play and experiments.