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2nd grade · Science · Unit 13 of 14

Wind, Water & Wild Weather

Wind and water move sand and soil; some storms are more likely in some places.

What your child practices

Practices how wind and water move soil and rock (sand dunes, washed-out hills), fast and slow changes to the land, and severe weather such as hurricanes, tornadoes and floods, including which are more likely in different parts of Texas.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 2.10(A); 2.10(C) · wind and water moving soil and rock, and severe weather that is more likely in some places

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Wind and water move sand and soil. Plant roots help hold soil.
  2. A tornado is a spinning column of air that touches the ground.
  3. Hurricanes form over the ocean, so they hit near the coast most.

Example: Which severe weather is a spinning column of air? It touches the ground and spins. Answer: a tornado

Wind, Water & Wild Weather in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 13 of 14 in 2nd grade Science, after Producers & Consumers and before Sun, Moon & Weather Records.

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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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

    What can a big storm wave do quickly?

    • Make a canyon
    • Grow a mountain
    • Freeze the ocean
    • Wash away part of a beach

  2. Question 2

    Why do people build dams with spillways?

    • To control water flow
    • To make volcanoes
    • To grow sand
    • To make earthquakes

  3. Question 3

    Wind blows sand away bit by bit. This is…

    • slow
    • fast
    • instant
    • never happening

  4. Question 4

    Which change happens slowly?

    • A landslide
    • An earthquake
    • A flash flood
    • A river carving a canyon

  5. Question 5

    Hurricanes are most likely in Texas towns that are…

    • far from any water
    • in caves
    • near the coast
    • in the desert mountains

  6. Question 6

    Which severe weather is a spinning column of air that touches the ground?

    • A tornado
    • A flood
    • A hurricane
    • Hail

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