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2nd Grade
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2.1
Students inquire about states, properties, and transformations of matter
2.2
Students explain forces, motions, and their interactions.
2.3
Students investigate energy and how it is transferred and transformed within and between systems.
2.4
Students analyze the interconnected systems that include the planet Earth, our Solar System, our Galaxy, and the Universe.
2.5
Students explain planet Earth as a complex and dynamic system of rock, water, air, and living things
2.6
Students assess the interrelated cycles and forces that shape Earth’s surface, including human interaction with Earth.
2.7
Students examine organisms’ structures and functions for life processes, including growth and reproduction.
2.8
Students inquire how organisms and populations of organisms obtain resources from their environment.
2.9
Students explore how biological evolution explains unity and diversity of species.
2.1.1
Identify ways to change matter
2.1.2
Determine that objects made from different materials have different properties
2.1.3
Recognize that matter can be a solid or liquid, and can change states
2.2.1
Examine what happens when forces have different strengths
2.2.2
Identify the effects of magnets on various materials, including each other
2.3.1
Identify various forms of energy
2.4.1
Observe and record at what times of the day the outdoor shadows are shortest and longest, and discuss how and why they change
2.5.1
Describe structural features of planet Earth
2.5.2
Explore rocks and soil
2.6.1
Explore how water plays an essential role in Earth systems, including shaping landforms
2.6.2
Describe weather in measurable quantities, such as temperature and precipitation
2.7.1
Investigate the life cycle of plants
2.7.2
Investigate the life cycles of animals
2.7.3
Explain how structures of organisms may change during their lives
2.8.1
Recognize how characteristics of organisms match to their habitats
2.8.2
Investigate how forest and lagoon ecosystems in American Samoa support life, including human life, by providing food, fresh water, and air
2.8.3
Explore how ecosystems change over time as a result of natural causes like storms, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, and fires, and explain which changes are beneficial for the plants and animals, which are harmful, and which have no effect
2.9.1
Explore the variations among the same kinds of plants and animals
2.9.2
Explain how an offspring of a plant or animal closely resembles its parents
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