Grade 2 Science
12 units matched to the Ontario Curriculum.
Overall expectations
- A1 STEM Investigation and Communication Skills: Use a scientific research process, a scientific experimentation process, and an engineering design process to conduct investigations, following appropriate health and safety procedures
- A2 Coding and Emerging Technologies: Use coding in investigations and to model concepts, and assess the impact of coding and of emerging technologies on everyday life
- A3 Applications, Connections, and Contributions: Demonstrate an understanding of the practical applications of science and technology, and of contributions to science and technology from people with diverse lived experiences
- B1 Relating Science and Technology to Our Changing World: Assess ways in which animals have an impact on society and the environment, and ways in which human activities have an impact on animals and the places where they live
- B2 Exploring and Understanding Concepts: Demonstrate an understanding that animals grow and change and have distinct characteristics
- C1 Relating Science and Technology to Our Changing World: Assess ways in which liquids and solids and their uses can have an impact on society and the environment
- C2 Exploring and Understanding Concepts: Demonstrate an understanding of the properties and physical changes of liquids and solids
- D1 Relating Science and Technology to Our Changing World: Assess the impact of simple machines on society and on the environment
- D2 Exploring and Understanding Concepts: Demonstrate an understanding of movement and ways in which simple machines help to move objects
- E1 Relating Science and Technology to Our Changing World: Assess ways in which the actions of humans have an impact on the quality of air and water, and create plans to protect these resources
- E2 Exploring and Understanding Concepts: Demonstrate an understanding of the properties of air and water, including water in various states, and of ways in which living things depend on air and water for their survival
Units
Unit 1
Think Like a Scientist
How scientists and engineers work: tools for measuring, fair tests, safety, sharing results, simple algorithms and how new technology changes everyday life.
Expectation: A1.1–A1.5, A2.1, A2.2, A3.1 · investigation skills, fair tests, safety, sharing findings, simple code and how science helps us
Unit 2
Animal Life Cycles
Life cycles of butterflies, frogs, chickens and mammals, and how some animals change a lot while others look like small adults.
Expectation: B2.3, B2.4 · life cycles of insects, amphibians, birds and mammals, and how appearance and behaviour change
Unit 3
How Animals Move
How animals swim, fly, hop, slither, crawl and gallop, and the body parts that help them move.
Expectation: B2.2 · the ways different animals move (locomotion)
Unit 4
Animal Adaptations
Body features (fur, quills, beaks, camouflage) and behaviours (hibernating, migrating, storing food) that help animals survive, and which features change as animals grow.
Expectation: B2.1, B2.5 · features that stay the same or change, and adaptations that help animals survive
Unit 5
Animals & People
Helpful and bothersome ways animals affect us, and how building, litter and clean water affect animals and the places they live.
Expectation: B1.1, B1.2 · impacts animals have on people and the environment, and human activities that affect animals and their homes
Unit 6
Solids & Liquids
Sorting solids and liquids, describing melting, freezing and boiling, and changes that can or can't be undone.
Expectation: C2.1, C2.3, C2.4 · solids and liquids, and the changes of state of water
Unit 7
Mixtures & Materials
Mixing liquids and solids (dissolving, separating), what sinks or floats, and which materials soak up or push away water.
Expectation: C2.2, C2.5, C2.6 · properties of liquids and solids, useful mixtures, and whether solids sink, float, absorb or repel water
Unit 8
Safety Symbols
Reading hazard symbols (poison, flammable, explosive, corrosive) on household products, and storing and throwing out dangerous liquids safely.
Expectation: C1.1, C2.7 · using, storing and disposing of liquids at home safely, and the meaning of international safety symbols
Unit 9
Push & Pull
Pushes and pulls, magnets, gravity, and how surfaces slow things down.
Expectation: D2.1, D2.2 · the ways an object can move and how its position can be changed
Unit 10
Simple Machines
The six simple machines (lever, inclined plane, wedge, pulley, wheel and axle, screw), where we see them every day, and how they make a job take less effort.
Expectation: D1.1, D2.3–D2.5 · the six simple machines, where we use them, and how they make jobs easier
Unit 11
Air & Water for Life
Air takes up space, the three states of water, why all living things need clean air and water, and how people can protect and share water.
Expectation: E1.1, E1.3, E2.1, E2.4, E2.5 · properties of air and water, states of water, how living things depend on them, and using clean water wisely
Unit 12
Water World
The water cycle, where our water comes from, and simple ways to save water and keep rivers clean.
Expectation: E1.2, E2.2, E2.3 · sources of water, the water cycle and using water responsibly
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