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 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 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…
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.
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.…
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.
Using the Science Songs (MP3 Album), students learn about different science concepts while listening to these upbeat and catchy songs.
While Parts of the Body Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the different parts of the body while listening to catchy lyrics.
Using this Jumping Jack Song (MP3), your students will be working up a sweat as they do jumping jacks along with the catchy beat.
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…
While watching the Weather Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about different types of weather conditions by listening to the repetitive lyrics loaded with key vocabulary.
Using thisMoon Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the phases of the moon through catchy, interesting lyrics.
Using this Jumping Jacks Song (Original Music Video), your students will be working up a sweat as they do jumping jacks along with the catchy exercise video.
Using this Animal Song (Animated Music Video), your students learn about different types of animals and their sounds by watching this fun, catchy video.
While Parts of the Body Song (MP3), students learn about the different parts of the body while listening to catchy lyrics.
Using this Stretching Song (MP3), your students will cool down and stretch their muscles with perfect form along with the catchy beat.
Using the Going Green Song (Animated Music Video), students learn all about ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle and so much more through a catchy video!
While listening to the Senses Song (MP3), students learn the five senses and examples of how you use each sense daily.
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: Seasons Song (Animated Music Video), Mammal Song and Seasons Song.
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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