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🔬 2nd Grade · Science2-LS2-1Unit 2: Plants, animals & habitats

What plants need to grow

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🎯 Objective: Students plan and run an investigation on plants’ needs for water and light.

Lesson outline

  1. Plan fair tests.
  2. Set up plants.
  3. Observe over time.
  4. Exit: what are you testing?

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-LS2-1

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Test what plants need to grow
  • Model how animals disperse seeds or pollinate
  • Compare diversity of life in habitats

✅ 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 “Plants, animals & habitats”

  1. What plants need to grow
  2. Seed dispersal
  3. Pollination
  4. Habitats around the world

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