Roadmap for Grade 2 Science Marking Period 4

Week Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5

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Sequence life Human life cycle cycle stages of in photographs radish plant (changes)

Sequence life cycle of plant or animal

Jigsaw Read Compare life articles to cycles of compare life organisms cycles of frog, mouse, butterfly Butterfly Journals Picture Describe animal interpretations to identify and to compare life compare to others cycle of 2 moths of same species Butterfly Journals

Prepare basic Moon Journal habitats for larva discussion (food, cup) differences and similarities to classmates Discuss and design Butterfly Moon Journal habitat for Observation discussion butterflies using differences and Primary Design Folio, similarities to classmates Redesign butterfly Butterfly habitats to meet Observation changing needs of butterflies Moon Journal discussion differences and similarities to classmates Moon Journal discussion differences and similarities to classmates

Compare dinosaurs to animals living today

Define extinct and identify extinct animals Butterfly Journals

Picture interpretation to compare animals that lived long ago to today

Butterfly Observation

Demonstrate the Explore earths relationship of movement around

Moon Journal discussion

location and movement between the sun, Earth, and moon Investigate effects of shadows

the sun, seasons

differences and similarities to classmates Compare Galileo Galileis discoveries to your own observations of the moon

Explain cause of visible changes of the moon

Explore how scientists use telescopes to observe the moon. Identify how scientific journals provide evidence of moon patterns of change

Moon phases lablels

Moon Journal look for patterns in the phases

Review student observations of the sun (Marking Period 3 Week 4).

Observe sunspots and compare observable features of sunspots to craters on the moon

Observe and Design a sun shade Publish sun and describe moon observations to block sunlight patterns of change over time in the location of the sun