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2nd grade · Science · Unit 11 of 11

Changing Land

Fast and slow changes to the land, and ways to stop wind and water wearing it away.

What your child practices

Your child sorts changes to the land into fast and slow, and looks at ways people keep soil and shorelines from washing away.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 2.10; 2.11 · fast and slow changes to the land, and ways to stop wind and water wearing it away

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Fast changes happen in minutes or days, like a landslide.
  2. Slow changes take years, like a canyon forming.
  3. Beach grass holds sand dunes. Rock walls stop waves wearing away land.

Example: What helps keep sand dunes from blowing away? Roots hold sand in place. Answer: planting beach grass

Changing Land in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 11 of 11 in 2nd grade Science, after Fast & Slow Earth Changes.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    A wall of rocks by the ocean helps…

    • bring rain
    • make waves bigger
    • stop waves from wearing away land
    • grow fish

  2. Question 2

    Rain washes a little soil off a hill every year. This is…

    • fast
    • instant
    • slow
    • an eruption

  3. Question 3

    Wind blows sand away bit by bit. This is…

    • slow
    • instant
    • never happening
    • fast

  4. Question 4

    Two plans protect a beach: a fence of logs or nothing. Which works better?

    • Neither ever
    • They are the same
    • The fence of logs
    • Nothing

  5. Question 5

    Glaciers carve valleys. This is…

    • a day's work
    • very slow
    • very fast
    • instant

  6. Question 6

    A landslide is when…

    • it snows
    • the sun sets
    • rocks and soil slide down a hill
    • a plant grows

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