These Donut Cut Outs quickly give you templates that can be easily cut and applied for classroom decoration or student activities
These birthday flash cards help preschool to 4th grade students learn 24 party words like cake, candles and presents. Fold-over picture cards, a practice page and an answer key are included.
This barn cut out activity lets PreK to 3rd grade children color, cut, fold and glue a 3-D paper barn, roof and silo, then stand six farm animals beside it.
These Thanksgiving flash cards give preschool through 2nd grade children 18 self-checking picture and word cards for building holiday vocabulary. A card list answer key is included.
This four seasons activity has children sort 12 picture cards and play a spinner game. Made for Kindergarten to 2nd Grade, with a practice page and answer key included.
This solar system activity is a Space Race game where 2nd to 5th Grade students spin, write and color the eight planets in order. Includes trivia cards, practice and answer key.
This sun activity sends 1st and 2nd grade children on a read-the-room hunt for twelve sun fact cards, with a recording sheet, a Yes or No practice page and answer keys included.
These Cloud Cut Outs quickly give you templates that can be easily cut and applied for classroom decoration or student activities
This months of the year activity is a picture card game for 1st and 2nd grade: put the months in order and sort them by season, with a practice page. Answer key included.
This go green recycle activity helps preschool to 3rd grade students sort everyday items into paper, plastic, metal, and glass, with a practice page and answer key included.
In this solar system sequencing planets activity, kindergarten to 5th grade students put the eight planets in order from the Sun and match their names. Answer key included.
Using this Weather Wiz Activity, students test their weather knowledge using fact cards and a graphic organizer.
This 4th of July Clip Art set is a perfect addition to any 4th of July bulletin board, flyer, or other printable that you create to celebrate the holiday!
These Easter flash cards help Preschool to 2nd Grade learners read and say 24 spring and holiday words, with an answer key included for quick checking.
This motion activity helps 2nd to 5th grade students sort everyday actions into pushes and pulls, with 14 sorting cards, a practice page, and an answer key included.
Using this Short Vowel Pumpkin Patch Activity, students sort the picture cards onto the correct short vowel sorting mat.
This magnet activity has kindergarten to 3rd grade students sort picture cards into things a magnet will pull and things it will not, with a sorting mat, practice page and answer key.
This summer graphing activity has children spin, tally and color a bar graph. Made for Kindergarten to 2nd Grade, with a practice page and answer key included.
Using Plurals Activity, students add the proper word ending to make a plural noun for correct usage in writing.
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: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (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: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
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: Donut Cut Outs, Birthday Flash Cards and Barn Cut Out.
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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