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2nd grade · Science · Unit 8 of 9

Land & Water

Mountains, valleys, lakes, rivers and oceans.

What your child practices

Practices naming and modeling kinds of land and water, such as mountains, valleys, islands, lakes, rivers and oceans, and noticing where water is found as a solid or a liquid, with the Great Lakes, the Hudson River and Long Island as examples.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: 2-ESS2-2; 2-ESS2-3 · modeling the shapes and kinds of land and water in an area

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Land can be mountains, valleys, plains or islands.
  2. Water can be lakes, rivers, oceans or glaciers.
  3. Lake Ontario and Lake Erie are two of the Great Lakes.

Example: Flat, wide land is a…? Mountains are high. Valleys are low. Flat, wide land is a plain. Answer: plain

Land & Water in New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 8 of 9 in 2nd grade Science, after Habitats Near & Far and before 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: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

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

    Flowing fresh water that moves to the sea is a…

    • glacier
    • river
    • pond
    • lake

  2. Question 2

    Where can you find solid water in summer?

    • In a bathtub
    • In a warm puddle
    • In a hot lake
    • On high mountain glaciers

  3. Question 3

    The Great Lakes hold…

    • fresh water
    • salt water
    • only ice
    • only sand

  4. Question 4

    Water as a solid is…

    • ice
    • rain
    • a river
    • steam

  5. Question 5

    Rivers usually flow…

    • uphill
    • downhill
    • into the sky
    • in circles

  6. Question 6

    Land with water all around it is an…

    • river
    • island
    • ocean
    • peninsula

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