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I hope you will find these links useful. I have tried to select resources that either directly address the benchmarks, or that work well for supporting them. If you use a different resource from my site when you cover a topic, please click the "Suggest a video" link to let me know, so I can add it to the list. Also, if you find that one of the resources that i suggested really does not work for the topic, let me know that too.
Big Idea 1: The Practice of Science.
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SC.2.N.1.1 Raise questions about the natural world, investigate them in teams through free exploration and systematic observations, and generate appropriate explanations based on those explorations. -
SC.2.N.1.2 Compare the observations made by different groups using the same tools. -
SC.2.N.1.3 Ask "how do you know?" in appropriate situations and attempt reasonable answers when asked the same question by others. -
SC.2.N.1.4 Explain how particular scientific investigations should yield similar conclusions when repeated.What is Science? video, ClosedCaptions Review Scientific Process-6 practice Review Scientific Process-5 practice Review Scientific Process-7 practice Review Scientific Process-10 practice -
SC.2.N.1.5 Distinguish between empirical observation (what you see, hear, feel, smell, or taste) and ideas or inferences (what you think).What is Science? video, ClosedCaptions When Sugar Isn't Sweet video Selective Smelling video, checked Mobius Strip video Coins Through a Hole video, checked -
SC.2.N.1.6 Explain how scientists alone or in groups are always investigating new ways to solve problems.
Big Idea 6: Earth Structures
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SC.2.E.6.1 Recognize that Earth is made up of rocks. Rocks come in many sizes and shapes.Igneous Rocks and Bubbles video, free, learnalong, Updated Sedimentary Rocks video, learnalong What is a Rock? video, learnalong, checked Homemade Fossil Dig text page Sorting Sediments text page, learnalong Geology in the City text page, learnalong Light and Dark Minerals text page, learnalong -
SC.2.E.6.2 Describe how small pieces of rock and dead plant and animal parts can be the basis of soil and explain the process by which soil is formed.Change: Fast and Slow video Erosion video, checked Soil Types text page -
SC.2.E.6.3 Classify soil types based on color, texture (size of particles), the ability to retain water, and the ability to support the growth of plants.
Big Idea 7: Earth Systems and Patterns
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SC.2.E.7.1 Compare and describe changing patterns in nature that repeat themselves, such as weather conditions including temperature and precipitation, day to day and season to season.Cloud Types video Global Science video, ClosedCaptions Nephoscope video, checked Finding Your Way video, checked Pine Cone Weather text page, free -
SC.2.E.7.2 Investigate by observing and measuring, that the Sun's energy directly and indirectly warms the water, land, and air.Making a Solar Still video -
SC.2.E.7.3 Investigate, observe and describe how water left in an open container disappears (evaporates), but water in a closed container does not disappear (evaporate).Evaporites video, learnalong, checked Making a Solar Still video What Really Happens With Evaporation? text page, free, checked -
SC.2.E.7.4 Investigate that air is all around us and that moving air is wind.Nephoscope video, checked Air Space video -
SC.2.E.7.5 State the importance of preparing for severe weather, lightning, and other weather related events.
Big Idea 8: Properties of Matter
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SC.2.P.8.1 Observe and measure objects in terms of their properties, including size, shape, color, temperature, weight, texture, sinking or floating in water, and attraction and repulsion of magnets.Stale Bread video Floating Bubbles video, checked Cabbage Indicator video, checked Iron Cereal video, ClosedCaptions, checked Density: Ice, Oil, and Water video, checked Wax and Wood, part 1 video, checked Wax and Wood, part 2 video, checked Scaring Pepper video, checked Making Turmeric Paper video, checked Cartesian Diver video, ClosedCaptions, checked -
SC.2.P.8.2 Identify objects and materials as solid, liquid, or gas.Egg States video, checked Experimenting with Dry Ice video, free, checked Ice Cream Science video, checked Raw Egg or Boiled? video, checked Air Space video Teach It Right the First Time. text page, free Review Matter-3 practice -
SC.2.P.8.3 Recognize that solids have a definite shape and that liquids and gases take the shape of their container.Egg States video, checked Wonderful Water video, checked Ice Cream Science video, checked Raw Egg or Boiled? video, checked Review Matter-1 practice -
SC.2.P.8.4 Observe and describe water in its solid, liquid, and gaseous states.The Water Cycle video, checked A Boat Full of Holes video, checked A Bouncing Water Balloon video Cloud Formation, part 2 video Cloud Types video Wonderful Water video, checked A Watched Pot video Photographing Snowflakes video, checked Ice Cream Science video, checked Scaring Pepper video, checked Building a Rain Gauge, part 2 video, checked Building a Rain Gauge, part 1 video, checked Adding to a Full Cup text page A Clean Trick text page -
SC.2.P.8.5 Measure and compare temperatures taken every day at the same time. -
SC.2.P.8.6 Measure and compare the volume of liquids using containers of various shapes and sizes.Building a Rain Gauge, part 2 video, checked Building a Rain Gauge, part 1 video, checked
Big Idea 9: Changes in Matter
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SC.2.P.9.1 Investigate that materials can be altered to change some of their properties, but not all materials respond the same way to any one alteration.Changing Colors, part 1 video Changing Colors, part 2 video Making Butter video, free, ClosedCaptions, Updated Polymers and Slime video, free, ClosedCaptions, checked Silver Pictures video, checked Going Through a Card video, ClosedCaptions Chemical and Physical Changes video, ClosedCaptions, checked Paper Petals video, ClosedCaptions
Big Idea 10: Forms of Energy
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SC.2.P.10.1 Discuss that people use electricity or other forms of energy to cook their food, cool or warm their homes, and power their cars.Review Energy-3 practice
Big Idea 13: Forces and Changes in Motion
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SC.2.P.13.1 Investigate the effect of applying various pushes and pulls on different objects.Torque video Water in a Glass, part 2 video, checked Water in a Glass, part 3 video, checked Water in a Glass, part 1 video, checked Obedient Coin video, checked Balancing a Meter Stick text page -
SC.2.P.13.2 Demonstrate that magnets can be used to make some things move without touching them.Making a Compass video, checked The Compass and Magnetic Fields video, ClosedCaptions, checked Magnetic Lines? text page -
SC.2.P.13.3 Recognize that objects are pulled toward the ground unless something holds them up.Water in a Glass, part 2 video, checked Water in a Glass, part 3 video, checked Water in a Glass, part 1 video, checked Planets and Pennies video, ClosedCaptions Review Force and Motion-4 practice -
SC.2.P.13.4 Demonstrate that the greater the force (push or pull) applied to an object, the greater the change in motion of the object.Water in a Glass, part 2 video, checked Water in a Glass, part 3 video, checked Water in a Glass, part 1 video, checked Obedient Coin video, checked
Big Idea 14: Organization and Development of Living Organisms
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SC.2.L.14.1 Distinguish human body parts (brain, heart, lungs, stomach, muscles, and skeleton) and their basic functions.Bird Bones video, free Bendable Bones video, checked Reading a Skeleton video, free, checked Review Anatomy-1 practice Review Anatomy-2 practice Review Anatomy-3 practice
Big Idea 16: Heredity and Reproduction
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SC.2.L.16.1 Observe and describe major stages in the life cycles of plants and animals, including beans and butterflies.Seed Search video, ClosedCaptions, checked Review Life Cycle-1 practice Review Life Cycle-2 practice Review Life Cycle-3 practice Review Life Cycle-4 practice
Big Idea 17: Interdependence
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SC.2.L.17.1 Compare and contrast the basic needs that all living things, including humans, have for survival.Secondary Consumers video, free, ClosedCaptions, Updated, checked Thoughts on an Exoskeleton text page, free -
SC.2.L.17.2 Recognize and explain that living things are found all over Earth, but each is only able to live in habitats that meet its basic needs.Hunting with an Umbrella video, free, ClosedCaptions, Updated A Walk in the Park video, checked Review Weather-9 practice