Grade 2 - Alberta Science - Lessons/Workbook Mega Bundle

This mega bundle provides everything you need to teach all the units in the Grade 2 Alberta Science Curriculum.

With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbooks, which contain fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Earth Systems Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• The Earth
• Life on Earth
• Mars Rover
• Coding - Driving the Mars Rover
• STEM Assignment – Designing a Rover
• STEM Assignment – Coding My Rover
• STEM Assignment – Drawing My Rover
• What are Landforms?
• Mountains
• Activity – Making a Mountain
• The Rocky Mountains
• Landform - Hills
• Landform - Plateau
• Activity – Making a Plateau
• Landform - Valley
• Experiment – Making a Valley
• Landform - Plains
• Volcanoes
• Experiment – Making a Volcano
• Landforms - Review
• Bodies of Water
• Landforms - Glaciers
• Wetlands in Alberta
• Activity – Create Your Own Wetland
• Rivers in Alberta
• Lakes in Alberta
• Water's Journey Downhill
• Dinosaur Provincial Park
• Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
• Earth’s Rotation and Revolution
• Earth’s Rotation – Day and Night
• Experiment – Rotating Earth
• What is a Cycle?
• Cycles In Your Life - Eating
• Day and Night
• Activity – Measuring Temperature
• Activity – Weather Report
• Investigate – Local Weather
• Writing Code – Weather Reports
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Living Systems Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Metamorphic life cycles
• Non-metamorphic life cycles
• Amphibians
• Frog life cycle
• Mammals
• Dog life cycle
• Growth of humans – human life cycle
• Reptiles
• Snake life cycle
• Fish life cycle
• Bird life cycle
• Vertebrates versus invertebrates
• Experiment – modelling vertebrates and invertebrates
• Butterfly life cycle
• Story – the growth of a butterfly
• Ant life cycle
• Spider life cycle
• Activity – making a life cycle book
• Changing animals – piglet and pig, caterpillar and butterfly, etc.
• Seed plants – life cycle
• Bulb plants – life cycle
• How humans pollute the environment
• Humans destroying the homes of animals
• How humans can help the environment – reduce, reuse, recycle, repurpose
• Activity – building a recycled bird feeder
• Invasive species in Alberta
• Helping animals – parks, protected areas, recovering areas
• Coding activities – helping animals
• Indigenous sacred animals
• Indigenous beliefs – all living things are equal
• Indigenous groups respect the Earth – no waste, take only what they need, etc.
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

Energy Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is Energy?
• Sound Energy
• Activity – Guess the Sound
• Artificial vs Natural Sound
• Making Sounds
• The Journey of Sound
• Experiment – Light Maze
• Sound Reflecting Materials
• Experiment – Soundproof Room
• Pitch, Duration, Volume
• Experiment – Testing Pitch With Bottles
• Sound Travels Through Matter
• Experiment – Testing Sound in Solids, Liquids, Gases
• Sound Recording
• Musical Instruments – Different Sounds
• Activity- Guess the Sound
• Lab – Making a Guitar
• Light Energy
• Natural and Artificial Light
• The Sun – Light Energy
• Plants Need Light
• The Sun’s Light Energy – Growing Plants
• Stopping Sun Burns – Finding Shade
• Experiment – Testing Sun Screen
• Emitting or Reflecting Light?
• Natural or Artificial Light Emitter
• Coding – Human Made and Natural Light
• Light Travels Through Objects - Transparency
• Shadows
• Experiment – Understanding Shadows
• Experiment – Making Animal Shadows
• Light Bending - Refraction
• Experiment – Refracting Light
• Light Splitting into Colours - Dispersion
• Experiment – Light Dispersion
• Sound and Light Energy
• If Then Conditional Statements - Activity
• Coding – Automatic Street Lights
• Writing Code – Lights In Your Room
• History of Street Lights
• Coding – Following Instruction
• Research – Automatic Lights
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Matter Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Materials
• Natural or Human Made Materials
• Describing Materials
• What are Objects?
• Objects Made of Materials
• Experiment - Objects Sink or Float?
• Research - Things That Float
• Sink or Float
• Life Preserver
• Stretchy Materials
• Can You Poke a Hole In a Balloon?
• Waterproof materials
• Objects that Absorb or Repel Water
• Experiment - Absorb or Repel
• Materials – Catching Bubbles
• Reflective Materials
• Experiment – Transparency of Materials
• Measuring Using Non-Standard Units - Blocks
• Using Non-Standard Units – Pencils, Wingspan
• Which Object Has More Mass?
• Non-Standard Units - Mass
• Coding – Making Materials
• Recognizable Object in the World
• Object – Different Types of Objects
• Testing Objects
• Activity – Working With Clay
• Fasteners
• Which Fastener Would You Use?
• Experiment - Triangles
• Building Objects
• Coding - Making Objects
• Coding – Robot Assembly Lines
• Activity – Making a Pencil Holder
• Where Materials Come From
• Materials – Wood and Paper Products
• Recycling - Paper
• Materials - Plastic
• Professionals Working With Materials
• How Indigenous Groups Use Materials
• Dene Birchbark Baskets
• Red River Carts
• Activity – Making a Canoe
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 2 - Google Lesson Slides - Alberta Science Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Grade 2, Alberta Science Curriculum.

We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.

Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals
- Discussion Questions

- Polls/Surveys

- Picture Prompts

- Jokes and Riddles

- Relevant Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Sorting

- Polls/Surveys and Graphing

- Embedded YouTube Videos

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- 3-2-1 Reflections

- One Word Reflections

- Act It Out!

- Quick Draw

- One Sentence Summary

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download copies of the Google Slides for the three different units to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.