Grade 2 Science GSE Standards

Life Science

Physical Science

Earth and Space Science

Digital Awareness

Reflective Researcher

Global Collaborator

Creative Communicator

Computational Thinker

Innovative Designer and Creator

Digital Citizen

Knowledge Constructor

Empowered Learner

Use digital tools to creatively share and express ideas.

Create a variety of artifacts.

Exchange information or ideas clearly and creatively using digital tools while considering audience and intended purpose.

Present information using a digital device.

Create artifacts for specific purposes that gives and receives feedback.

Develop and employ Computational Thinking strategies (break-down, find patterns, and create algorithms) to identify and solve problems.

Recognize that problems can be broken down into smaller parts in order to create a solution. Vocabulary Term: Decompose (to break down)

Identify multiple ways solutions can be applied to solve problems. Vocabulary Term: Abstraction

Analyze and debug (identify and fix) with or without a computing device.

Understand how people can use technology.

Use devices appropriately.

Choose and use appropriate hardware and software tools for a given purpose using accurate terminology.

Identify the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of living, learning, and working in an interconnected society and model behaviors that are safe, legal, and ethical.

Recognize work that is created by others.

Recognize that credit is given for the work of others found online.

Create an artifact that demonstrates a positive personal digital identity.

Recognize that technology provides the opportunity to enhance relevance, increase confidence, offer authentic choice, and produce positive impacts in learning.

Use digital tools to collaborate with others both locally and globally.

Identify technology (hardware and software) that allows collaboration with others.

Use digital tools to connect with individuals from different backgrounds and cultures.

Understand features of online environments.

Participate in various roles on a team to work on a common goal and create an inclusive environment.

Participate in an online collaborative learning environment.

Use the Design Process (use, modify, create) with a variety of tools to identify and solve problems by creating new, modified, or imaginative solutions.

Modify an existing model for a specific purpose or for a specific group of users.

Create and test a model and analyze it from the perspective of an end user.

Understand that innovation follows a process such as system life cycle, engineering design (use, modify, create) or design thinking (empathize, define, ideate, prototype and test).

Use digital tools (e.g. computers, tablets, cameras, software, 3D printers, etc.…) to build knowledge, produce creative artifacts, and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.

Identify and use the home row of the keyboard effectively.

Build (use, modify and/or create) collections of digital images and words to communicate learning using a variety of media types.

Analyze collections of digital images and words for how well each collection communicates learning.

Identify a problem of interest to the learner and create a solution using digital tools.

Select appropriate sources to conduct authentic research to produce a relevant and credible product.

Progress from using a teacher developed list of resources, to selecting resources independently.

Select digital and analog resources, explain why a source was selected, and describe why it was the best source.

Collect and organize data.

Create a product of research collaboratively or independently. (e.g., table of data, writing assignment, collection of resources).

Create and share a research project reflecting and crediting a variety of quality resources.

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about stars having different sizes and brightness.

Ask questions to describe the physical attributes (size and brightness) of stars.

Construct an argument to support the claim that although the sun appears to be the brightest and largest star, it is actually medium in size and brightness.

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to develop an understanding of the patterns of the sun and the moon and the sun's effect on Earth.

Plan and carry out an investigation to determine the effect of the position of the sun in relation to a fixed object on Earth at various times of the day.

Design and build a structure that demonstrates how shadows change throughout the day.

Represent data in tables and/or graphs of the length of the day and night to recognize the change in seasons.

Use data from personal observations to describe, illustrate, and predict how the appearance of the moon changes over time in a pattern.

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about how weather, plants, animals, and humans cause changes to the environment.

Ask questions to obtain information about major changes to the environment in your community.

Construct an explanation of the causes and effects of a change to the environment in your community.

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the life cycles of different living organisms.

Ask questions to determine the sequence of the life cycle of common animals in your area: a mammal such as a cat, dog or classroom pet, a bird such as a chicken, an amphibian such as a frog, and an insect such as a butterfly.

Plan and carry out an investigation of the life cycle of a plant by growing a plant from a seed and by recording changes over a period of time.

Construct an explanation of an animal's role in dispersing seeds or in the pollination of plants.

Develop models to illustrate the unique and diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans.

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the properties of matter and changes that occur in objects.

Ask questions to describe and classify different objects according to their physical properties.

Construct an explanation for how structures made from small pieces (linking cubes, building blocks) can be disassembled and then rearranged to make new and different structures.

Provide evidence from observations to construct an explanation that some changes in matter caused by heating or cooling can be reversed and some changes are irreversible.

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to explain the effect of a force (a push or a pull) in the movement of an object (changes in speed and direction).

Plan and carry out an investigation to demonstrate how pushing and pulling on an object affects the motion of the object.

Design a device to change the speed or direction of an object.

Record and analyze data to decide if a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a force (a push or a pull).