Science, Grade 2
Manitoba · Grade 2 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Scientific Skills and Inquiry
The hands-on doing of science in Grade 2 - using tools to observe and measure, timing things, making graphs, and building something to solve a problem.
- Using tools to observe and measure
- Measuring time in minutes and hours
- Making graphs of our data
- Building to solve a problem
Unit 2: Growth and Changes in Animals
How humans and animals grow and change, healthy eating with Canada's Food Guide, animal offspring, and life cycles.
- Words for growth and changes
- What stays the same and what changes
- We all grow at different rates
- Food gives us energy
- The four food groups
- Planning a healthy day of food
- Food from plants and animals
- Offspring look like their parents
- Young and grown animals
- How long to grow up
- How an animal changes as it grows
- Sorting animals by their features
- How animals care for their babies
- A complete life cycle
- Comparing life cycles
- An animal's life processes
- How people help animals
Unit 3: Properties of Solids, Liquids, and Gases
The three states of matter - solids, liquids, and gases - their properties, dissolving, floating and sinking, and how water changes state.
- Words for solids, liquids, and gases
- Is it a solid or a liquid?
- Properties of solids
- Properties of liquids
- Comparing solids and liquids
- Does it dissolve?
- How liquids behave
- Liquids we use at home
- Which material soaks up more?
- Making things by mixing
- Air is all around us
- Air is made of gases
- Properties of gases
- Water changing state
- When states stay and when they change
- Getting rid of waste safely
- Float or sink?
- Making things float and sink
- Building a boat that carries a load
Unit 4: Position and Motion
Describing where things are and how they move, pushes and pulls, friction, inclined planes, and wheels and axles.
- Words for position and motion
- Describing where a still object is
- When an object moves
- Looking from another spot
- Changing your own view
- Ways things move
- Pushes and pulls
- Friction on different surfaces
- How a ramp's slope changes things
- Ramps that help people
- How wheels and axles move
- Which way wheels turn
- Wheels and axles that help people
- Building a vehicle with wheels
Unit 5: Air and Water in the Environment
Moving air and wind, water in the environment, the water cycle, drinking water, and keeping our air and water clean.
- Words for air and water
- Air can move
- Signs of moving air
- Good and bad effects of air changes
- Building a wind device
- Water all around us
- Water changing state and the water cycle
- What makes things dry faster
- Where drinking water comes from
- How people use water
- Why clean air and water matter
- Pollution and how to reduce it
- Clean water is precious
- Saving water at home
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