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2nd Grade

Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

 

Students who demonstrate understanding can:

 

 

Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow. 2-LS2-1

Clarification Statement and Assessment Boundary

Clarification Statement: none

Assessment Boundary: Assessment is limited to testing one variable at a time.

Science and Engineering Practices

Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

Planning and carrying out investigations to answer questions or test solutions to problems in K–2 builds on prior experiences and progresses to simple investigations, based on fair tests, which provide data to support explanations or design solutions.

Plan and conduct an investigation collaboratively to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence to answer a question. (2-LS2-1)

Disciplinary Core Ideas

LS2.AInterdependent Relationships in Ecosystems

Plants depend on water and light to grow. (2-LS2-1)

Common Core State Standards Connections

ELA/Literacy
  • W.2.7 - Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations). (2-LS2-1)
  • W.2.8 - Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. (2-LS2-1)
Mathematics
  • MP.2 - Reason abstractly and quantitatively. (2-LS2-1)
  • MP.4 - Model with mathematics. (2-LS2-1)
  • MP.5 - Use appropriate tools strategically. (2-LS2-1)