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…
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
This amphibian classification worksheet asks 2nd graders to decide which animals are amphibians by checking their traits, then finish four sentences from a word bank. Answer key included for quick, no-prep science practice.
While watching the Creation Song, students learn about the days of Creation perfect for Sunday school, kid's church, and Bible lessons for kids. Bring joy and understanding into your kid's church, Sunday school, and classroom with this song about the days of Creation. Your kids will love a new way…
This Plants Life Science Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 2nd graders a short nonfiction passage about plants plus questions that build reading comprehension. Includes a complete answer key — perfect for no-prep science and reading practice.
This animal classification worksheet lets 2nd graders sort twelve animals into mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles using a picture-clued word box. An answer key is included — great for no-prep science practice at home or in class.
This rainforest animals worksheet asks 2nd Grade students to circle four rainforest animals and finish sentences about their habitat. Answer key included, so habitat practice takes only minutes to assign and check.
This Forests Life Science Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 2nd graders a short non-fiction passage about pine, leafy, and rain forests, plus questions and an answer key. Great no-prep practice for main idea and key details.
This Life Cycles Life Science Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 2nd Grade readers a non-fiction story about seeds, caterpillars, and tadpoles, plus bubble, word-bank, and writing questions. Answer key included for fast, no-prep practice.
This plant parts worksheet asks 2nd grade students to name the plant part each of six familiar foods comes from, using a word box. An answer key is included, so checking work takes seconds.
The Amphibian Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about amphibians. This animated music video teaches that amphibians live on land and in water, start life with gills, go through metamorphosis and have moist skin without scales. While watching the Amphibian Song, students learn the…
This Basic Fish Parts Worksheet asks 1st graders to label six numbered parts on a big, friendly fish using a word box. An answer key is included, so science practice takes no prep at all.
Use this fish classification worksheet to help 2nd grade students circle the fish among six animals and name gills, fins, and scales. An answer key is included, so checking work takes seconds.
A nonfiction bird passage for 2nd graders, with questions on feathers, nests, and what birds eat. This Birds Life Science Reading Comprehension Worksheet includes an answer key for easy, no-prep science reading practice.
Explore swamps, bogs, and marshes with this wetlands life science reading comprehension worksheet. Second graders read a short nonfiction passage and answer six questions, and an answer key is included, so learning about habitats stays easy and fun.
Seeds, sprouts and critters
Second grade life science is all about plants, animals and where they live. Kids test what plants need to grow, like sunlight and water, and learn how animals help plants by spreading seeds and pollen. They compare living things in different habitats, from forests to ponds, and notice how many kinds of life fit in one place. They also sort living and non-living things. The click moment is when a seed they planted actually sprouts, and they can explain why the one in the dark closet didn't.
Second graders learn science best by watching things happen. These moves turn the classroom into a little lab.
Plant three bean seeds in cups. One gets light and water, one gets no water, one goes in a dark cupboard. Kids predict, check every few days, and draw what they see. By week two, they've proven what plants need instead of just reading it.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
Try it withPlant Needs WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Show photos of a rock, a tree, a cloud and a dog and ask kids to sort them. Then ask "How do you know?" Listing the clues together (it grows, it eats, it breathes) gives kids a test they can use on anything.
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 withCharacteristics of Living and Non-Living Things WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →After a short reading about plants, kids answer a few questions without looking back. Then they look back to check. That little bit of remembering does more than rereading the passage twice.
Why it works: researchers who compared ten study methods found practice testing is one of the two that work best (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withPlants Life Science Reading Comprehension WorksheetAssessmentsOpen it →Bring out the explorer in every kid with these hands-on ideas.
WorksheetsTake a pretend trip through the rainforest layers and spot which animals live on each level.
Open Rainforest Animals Worksheet →
WorksheetsKids sketch a real plant and label roots, stem, leaves and flower like a scientist.
Open Plant Parts Drawing Worksheet →
WorksheetsWear an old sock on a walk outside and see which seeds stick to it. That's how animals spread seeds!
Open Plant Parts Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Mammal Song, Plant Needs Worksheet and Characteristics of Living and Non-Living Things Worksheet.
Life science is the study of living things. In 2nd grade it covers what plants need to grow, how animals spread seeds and pollen, and the variety of living things in different habitats.
Plants need sunlight, water, air and space, plus nutrients from soil. A simple bean experiment lets 2nd graders see this for themselves.
Give kids a checklist: does it grow, need food and water, breathe, and make more of itself? Then let them sort real objects and pictures using those clues.
Plant seeds in a cup, go on a nature walk to spot animal homes, or watch a caterpillar become a butterfly. Have your child draw and label what they see.
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