Science · Grade 2

Skills

• Makes a prediction before an experiment and checks it afterwards.
• Records observations in a drawing, a table or a chart.
• Sorts animals into major groups: mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, insects.
• Describes a life cycle (butterfly, frog, plant from seed).
• Sorts materials by property and explains why an object is made of what it is made of.
• Knows solid, liquid and gas, and gives examples of each.
• Knows that things fall because of gravity.
• Knows a magnet attracts some metals and not other materials; knows poles attract and repel.
• Knows the Earth is a sphere in space, and that the Sun is a star.
• Names the Sun, the Earth and the Moon and how they relate.