While listening to the Seasons Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the seasons of the year while listening to a catchy song. Here we go, oh, seasons of the year! Your kids will be singing this song about the seasons over and over. Bring joy into your classroom with…
The Seasons Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about the seasons of the year. This is a fun way for kids to learn the seasons. With this seasons song, your kids can learn about Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. While listening to the Seasons…
A second grade Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Sorting Worksheet where students sort nine everyday items into the correct earth-friendly bin. Answer key included — a quick, no-prep Earth Day activity for home or classroom.
This Printable Thermometer shows Fahrenheit and Celsius scales side by side, giving 2nd grade students an easy classroom tool for tracking temperature and weather. Print, mark, and reuse all year long.
While watching the Water Cycle Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the process of the water cycle by listening to the repetitive lyrics loaded with key vocabulary.
This Weather Fill in the Blank Worksheet lets 2nd graders complete eight weather sentences using a word bank of terms like thunder, sleet, and downpour. Includes an answer key for quick, no-prep science vocabulary practice.
The Mammal Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about mammals. This animated music video teaches that mammals breathe air with lungs, are warm-blooded, have fur or hair, give birth to live young and feed their babies milk. While watching the Mammal Song, students learn…
The Matter Song teaches all about matter and the states of matter. With this states of matter song, students learn about solid, liquid, and gas, as well as the phases of matter, properties of matter, physical changes, chemical changes, and so much more. Matter has mass and takes up space.…
A hands-on plant needs worksheet where 2nd graders name the five things every plant must have, then match three pictures to the needs they show. Answer key included for quick, no-prep science practice.
This Weather Words Worksheet helps 2nd graders sort sixteen weather terms into precipitation, storms, sky conditions, and temperature. Answer key included — a quick, no-prep way to grow earth science vocabulary.
While watching the Planets Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the order of planets in our solar system as well as cool facts about each planet.
This Natural Disasters Fill in the Blanks Worksheet has 2nd graders match blizzards, droughts, earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornadoes to picture-clue sentences. Answer key included — perfect for no-prep extreme weather vocabulary practice.
A hands-on characteristics of living and non-living things worksheet for 2nd grade, where students sort words, judge true traits, and compare examples. Includes an answer key for quick, no-prep science practice.
This Reduce, Reuse, Recycle worksheet helps 2nd grade students learn the three Rs by matching each word to its meaning and sorting Earth Day scenarios. Answer key included for quick, no-prep practice.
The Senses Fill in the Blanks Worksheet gives 2nd grade students word-bank practice completing sentences about sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, plus a sense-to-body-part match. Answer key included for quick, no-prep science review.
Using the Science Songs (MP3 Album), students learn about different science concepts while listening to these upbeat and catchy songs.
The Life Cycle of a Butterfly Worksheet has 2nd graders label the egg, larva, pupa, and adult stages and put them in the correct order. Answer key included for quick, hands-on life science practice.
This matching animal habitats worksheet has 2nd Grade students connect five animals to the ocean, pond, desert, forest, and grassland, then finish three sentences. An answer key is included for fast, no-prep science practice.
The Eating Healthy Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 2nd graders a fun passage about healthy food plus six questions to check understanding. Answer key included—perfect for no-prep reading and nutrition practice at home or school.
This mammal classification worksheet helps 2nd graders spot mammals and sort animals into mammal and not-a-mammal groups. It includes a complete answer key, making it perfect for no-prep science practice at home or in the classroom.
Little scientists, big questions
Second grade science is all about observing the world and asking why. Kids explore what plants need to grow (sunlight and water), how animals help plants spread seeds, and which living things live in each habitat. They study matter: sorting materials by properties like hard, soft, bendy or shiny, and seeing how heating or cooling can change them, like ice → water. In earth science they learn how wind and water slowly change the land. Along the way they track weather and seasons and learn about life cycles. The click moment is when a child makes a prediction, tests it and says "I was right!" (or "Whoa, I was wrong!").
Science is a doing subject. These moves get kids observing, predicting and explaining.
A science song is a fast way to lock in vocabulary. Play the water cycle song before the lesson, then pause it on each stage and have kids act it out: evaporation arms rising, condensation hugging tight. Kids remember the motions on the test.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withWater Cycle Song (Animated Music Video)SongsOpen it →Plant beans in two cups, one in the window and one in a dark closet. Kids draw and measure each plant every few days. By week two the difference speaks for itself, and they've learned what plants need by seeing it happen.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withPlant Needs WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →After watching or reading about butterflies, have kids draw each stage in a circle with arrows. Then cover one stage and ask what's missing. Drawing a cycle shows it never really ends, which is the big idea.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withLife Cycle of a Butterfly WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Second graders are natural scientists. These ideas let them explore.
WorksheetsKids sort pictured items into recycle, reuse and trash piles, then check the class trash can to see how we do.
Open Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Sorting Worksheet →
WorksheetsMatch animals to their habitats, then invent a brand-new animal that could survive in one of them.
Open Matching Animal Habitats Worksheet →
WorksheetsRead a thermometer every morning, record the temperature and graph the week. Is it getting warmer or colder?
Open Printable Thermometer →Teacher favorites right now: Seasons Song (Animated Music Video), Seasons Song and Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Sorting Worksheet.
Second graders usually study plants and what they need, animals and habitats, properties of matter, and how wind and water change the land. Many classes also study weather, seasons and life cycles.
Grow a plant from seed, melt and refreeze ice, or go on a nature walk to observe bugs and leaves. Ask "What do you think will happen?" before every experiment. Making predictions is real science.
Properties are things you can observe about a material, like its color, texture, hardness and whether it bends or floats. Second graders sort and compare materials using these properties.
Plants need sunlight, water, air and space to grow, plus nutrients from soil. Second graders often test this by growing plants with and without light or water and comparing the results.
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