Grade 2 Worksheet
Gorsebury Hydrant Painting: Colors That Stand Out on the Street
Grade 2 students read a made-up town's hydrant-painting rules, compare how many kids spotted two test designs, and plan a hydrant that stands out from the grass.
Creative projects such as poster campaigns, water tower design, and storm-drain murals connect to real civic programs that many utilities sponsor.
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Grade 2 Worksheet
Grade 2 students read a made-up town's hydrant-painting rules, compare how many kids spotted two test designs, and plan a hydrant that stands out from the grass.
Grade 2 Worksheet
Grade 2 students sort warm and cool colors, find solid and liquid water in a made-up lake scene, and choose colors, lines, and arrows for each part of the water cycle.
Grade 2 Lesson plan
Grade 2 students plan a four-panel comic about a child in a made-up town saving water, using wide panels to set the scene and a close-up to show the key action.
Grade 2 Worksheet
Grade 2 students draw a made-up school's rain garden two ways: a side view showing the bowl shape that holds rain, and a top view with a key for two kinds of plants.
Grade 2 Lesson plan
Grade 2 students test which collage materials let light through, then layer tissue on clear film to show how muddy runoff dims the plants in a made-up pond.
Grade 2 Worksheet
Students design a four-color key, color a bar graph of trash pulled from a made-up creek, and answer compare questions about the four groups they graphed.
Grade 2 Worksheet
Students design a three-tile repeating border for a park bottle-filling fountain, then add and subtract within 100 to find out whether the tile order is enough.
Grade 2 Worksheet
Students design the colored number strip for a school garden rain gauge, then plot ten days of jar readings on a line plot and compare the depths they marked.
Grade 2 Lesson plan
A 55-minute grade 2 art lesson where students survey school sinks for drips and leaks, define the problem in one sentence, and design an opinion sign for each one.
Grade 2 Lesson plan
A 45-minute grade 2 art lesson in which students paint with cubes of frozen colored water and argue from what they saw that melting and freezing repeat.
Grade 2 Lesson plan
A 50-minute grade 2 art lesson where students draw the town water tank, measure their drawing with a ruler, and explain how its tall shape moves water downhill.
Grade 2 Classroom activity
A four-station printing rotation where grade 2 students make storm textures, test two tools against each other for the ripple print, and caption each finished print.
Grade 2 Lesson plan
A 40-minute grade 2 music lesson where students build a four-part body-percussion rainstorm, draw a picture score for it, and write the storm as an ordered story.
Grade 2 Classroom activity
Four groups tear paper for the snow, river, pond, and town of a made-up valley, then join the pieces into one class map showing solid and liquid water.
Grade 2 Classroom activity
Grade 2 students build stick puppets of four people who bring water to a tap, draw a job card with the tool each one uses, and parade them along the water's route.
Grade 2 Classroom activity
Grade 2 pairs design a round storm-drain marker with a picture and short message warning that most drains carry water straight to a creek, then write an opinion caption.