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🔬 2nd Grade · Science2-ESS1-1Unit 3: Earth’s land & water

Fast and slow changes

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🎯 Objective: Students compare quick events (earthquakes) and slow events (erosion).

Lesson outline

  1. Sort cards.
  2. Timeline.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: one fast, one slow.

Lesson 1 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

2-ESS1-1

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Grade 2 — typical US unit order

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe quick and slow changes to Earth’s surface
  • Map landforms and bodies of water
  • Design solutions to slow erosion

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Earth’s land & water”

  1. Fast and slow changes
  2. Wind and water erosion
  3. Maps of land and water
  4. Where water is found

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