Grade 2 Lesson plan
Two Covers for the Ambledown Garden Tub: A Drying Test
A three-session grade 2 test of an open tub against a solid lid and a mesh cover, tracking water lines to find where a garden tub's stored water goes.
Water Science · Grade 2
These materials teach earth science, chemistry, biology, and physics through water systems, from the water cycle to treatment chemistry.
29 materials written for this grade · refine by type, topic, or standard in the catalog
Grade 2 Lab / experiment
The Cold Cup at Dunnetts School: Where Did the Drops Start?
Grade 2 groups compare a cup of dyed ice water with a cup of dyed room-temperature water to find out whether the drops on a cold cup leaked through it.
Grade 2 Worksheet
Salty Bay or Fresh Lake: Where Havenrow Gets Its Water
Grade 2 students read a map chart of a fictional coastal town, model its hill, lake, creek, marsh, and bay in order, and tell salt water from fresh water.
Grade 2 Reading passage
Snow on Mirrenfield Ridge: How Oatlands Gets Its Water
A grade 2 read-aloud passage tracing one town's water from winter snow on a ridge through a creek, a lake, a pipe, and a tall tank to the kitchen tap.
Grade 2 Lesson plan
Road Salt at Rowanwood School: A Grass Seed Water Test
A five-day grade 2 investigation comparing grass seed watered with plain water against seed watered with salty water, matched to the brown strip beside a road.
Grade 2 Classroom activity
Chalk Arrows on the Sparrowdyke School Blacktop
A grade 2 outdoor activity where teams pour water at six chalk spots, draw arrows showing which way it ran, and map the schoolyard's low ground.
Grade 2 Worksheet
Four Spots on Thistleford Creek: Finding the Cloudy Water
Grade 2 students compare four water samples taken down the length of a creek after a rainy night, find where the water turns cloudy, and name the source.
Grade 2 Worksheet
The Birdbath at Tollerby Park: A Freeze and Thaw Record
Grade 2 students read an eight-day birdbath chart, count the icy mornings, match ice to cold air, and argue from the record that freezing can be undone.
Grade 2 Reading passage
Two Pipes Under Beckwith Street: Where the Rain Goes
A grade 2 read-aloud passage in which a city worker shows a class why street rain reaches the creek uncleaned while sink water goes to a plant first.
Grade 2 Classroom activity
Colored Water Up the Celery Stalks at Wistmoor School
A two-day grade 2 station rotation in which groups set celery and a white flower in dyed water, bag a leafy stem, and find where the water travels.
Grade 2 Reading passage
After the Rain at Corley Park: Two Ways to Hold the Bank
A grade 2 read-aloud passage about a park that tried a stone wall and a grass strip to keep a creek bank from washing away, with eight comprehension questions.
Grade 2 Lesson plan
Building the Duncove Valley: A Grade 2 Water Model
Grade 2 students build a clay and paper model of a valley town, showing the hill, creek, and lake that supply its taps, then explain why the supply pipe runs downhill.
Grade 2 Lesson plan
Bean Rows at the Fennhurst School Garden: A Watering Test
Grade 2 students plan a one-variable test of whether bean seedlings need water, measure heights with a centimeter ruler, and compare a watered row with a dry row.
Grade 2 Lesson plan
Ferncross Creek After the Storm: Fast and Slow Land Changes
Grade 2 students weigh two records from the town of Ferncross and sort creek events into changes that happen in a day and changes that take many years.
Grade 2 Classroom activity
Gravensford Pond in Four Seasons: A Solid or Liquid Sort
Grade 2 groups sort twelve cards about water around one pond across four seasons into solid and liquid, then compare the two totals by subtracting.
Grade 2 Classroom activity
Haverly School Room 6's Cup Count: Four Water Stations
Grade 2 groups measure classroom water use in cups at four stations, draw a bar graph from a recorded day, and define the water waste problem their room wants to fix.
Grade 2 Lab / experiment
Ivyford Pond's Cloudy Jar: Testing Two Strainers
Grade 2 groups describe a cloth and a screen by their properties, then pour cloudy pond-style water through each and compare which strainer catches more bits.
Grade 2 Worksheet
Melt and Dry at Larchgate School: A Grade 2 Change Sheet
Grade 2 students follow ice and a puddle across a school week, choose inches or feet for each measurement, and decide which changes can be undone.
Grade 2 Worksheet
The Wet Bus Loop at Pinebank School: A Grade 2 Yard Sheet
Grade 2 students use a chart of six school yard spots to explain why a storm puddle stays in the paved bus loop and to pick a fair pair for a soak test.
Grade 2 Worksheet
The Well Under Threshfield Farm: A Grade 2 Depth Worksheet
Grade 2 students read a table of the ground layers under a farm to find where water sits underground, then add and subtract depths in feet within 100.
Grade 2 Classroom activity
Hazel Bend's Pipe Order Puzzle: A Grade 2 Water Path Activity
A grade 2 activity where small groups race to put five cards in order, tracing how Hazel Bend's water travels from a river to a kitchen faucet.
Grade 2 Worksheet
Hazel Bend's Water Tower: A Shape-and-Height Worksheet
A grade 2 worksheet where students explain why Hazel Bend's water tower is built tall and use addition and subtraction within 100 to compare tank heights.
Grade 2 Lesson plan
Mapping Nutmeg Creek: A Grade 2 Storm Drain Litter Lesson
A 40-minute grade 2 lesson where students model a storm drain leading to a fictional creek, sort litter from natural items, and write an opinion sentence.
Grade 2 Lab / experiment
Hard Ground or Grassy Ground? A Grade 2 Runoff Test
A grade 2 lab where students compare rainwater runoff collected from a foil-lined tray and a soil-filled tray to see which surface absorbs more water.