Grade 2 Module 1: A Season of Change

Knowledge Skills

In order to be successful on the EOM task,
students must demonstrate understanding of the must demonstrate these skills:
following:
• What change is
• That change is complex, including that it
can happen at different rates, from
change that occurs over time to rapid
change
• How, as a result of variations in
temperature and weather, change across
seasons
• The nature of change from fall to winter
• How seasonal changes, particularly
those from fall to winter, affect animal
behavior, such as animal migration
• How seasonal changes – particularly
those from fall to winter – affect plants,
such as change in the leaf color and loss
of leaves for certain tress in the fall
• How seasonal changes affect people,
such as leading people to dress in
warmer clothing during the fall and
winter
• How friends can help people both
change and manage change
In order to be successful on the EOM task, students
• Gather and incorporate evidence from at
least two module texts about the way
changes in weather impact plants or animals
in the fall
• An informative/explanatory paragraph
explaining the impact of fall weather on
either plants or animals that includes
o A topic statement that conveys the
essential idea of the paragraph and
answers the question of how
changes in weather affect plants or
animals in the fall
o Three or more evidence sentences
from two different module texts, and
o A conclusion

EOM – throughout the module, students explore the concept of change and how it affects nature
and people they observe change through the cycle of the four seasons – winter, spring, summer
and fall –and they investigate the causes of those changes. They zero in particularly on the
changes that occur from fall to winter. Students read a variety of informational and literary texts
to examine these seasonal differences, and how seasonal and other changes affect people,
animals, and plants, particularly in the fall.

For the EOM. Students contribute a paragraph to an informational text the whole class creates for
the school library. Their informative paragraph responds to the question of how changes in
weather impact plants or animals in fall.