SECOND GRADE - HELPING HANDS
SCIENCE
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Chapter |
Required Lab in Science Lab |
Materials |
Storybooks or Slideshow (on http://msnucleus.org) |
LIFE
| Plant Life Cycles |
2.1 Angiosperm/Gymnosperm Life Cycle – Plants 2B |
3 bags of 8 specimens (cone, fruit husk, redwood, palm tree, eucalyptus bark, Douglas fir, flower) |
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| Animal Life Cycles | 2.2 Animal Models | 2 sets if plastic animal models |
EARTH
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Rocks, Soils, and Fossils |
2.3 Rocks -3 Types Rocks
2.4 Fossils - comparing fossils to present day organisms
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2 sets of igneous (scoria, granite, obsidian, pumice); sedimentary (sandstone, conglomerate, shale,mudstone; metamorphic (serpentinite, schist, marble, gneiss) |
Ricky the Rapping
Rock Going Back through time with Dinosaurs Dinosaurs (slideshow) |
| 4 packets of 5 shells (moonsail, Rapana, turritella, abalone, bivalve) and 1 fossil (mollusk) | |||
| Using Resources | Give Water a Second Chance |
PHYSICAL
| Objects in Motion |
Gary the Gardener Physics of Toys (slideshow) |
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| Forces | |||
| Magnets |
2.5 Magnets |
1 logo, 1 wand, 1 marble, 2 ring magnet | Electrons and the Hairy Monster |
| Making Sound |
2.6 Tuning Forks -Sound |
7 sets of tuning forks (2048, 1024, 640, 512, 480, 256, 100 mhz) |