The Grade 2 Science Living Systems educational resource packet, is designed to engage young learners in exploring the fascinating relationship between plants, animals, and the land! **Aligned with the Alberta's curriculum shifts of 2023

This packet includes:

• A workbook
• Cutouts
• Assessment
• Answer Keys
• Teacher Notes

Topics explored:

1. How Human Behaviors Affect the Environment: Understand the impact of human actions on the natural world, including pollution, habitat destruction, and climate change.
2. Positive Behaviors: Explore positive actions individuals and communities can take to reduce their environmental footprint, such as the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle), repurposing materials, supporting conservation efforts, and protecting natural spaces like national parks and community gardens.
3. Negative Behaviors: Identify and examine detrimental actions that harm the environment, including littering, pollution of air, water, and soil, overexploitation of natural resources, and the introduction of invasive species.
4. First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Peoples' Relationship to Land, Plants, and Animals: Learn about the traditional ecological knowledge and stewardship practices of Indigenous peoples in Canada, including their deep connections to the land, sustainable resource management techniques, and cultural significance of plants and animals.

Discover Alberta's Landforms with this Workbook!!

An exciting and comprehensive exploration tailored for Grade 2 students, aligning seamlessly with the Alberta Curriculum shifts of 2023. This 61-page pack dives into the captivating world of landforms, offering an engaging blend of theory, practical exercises, and real-world investigations.

This pack includes:

• Workbook
• Cutouts
• Teacher's notes
• Assessment
• Answer keys
• Landforms Flip Book Template

Topics:

• What are Landforms?
• Descriptions of Mountains, Hills, Valleys, and Prairies
• Comparing Landforms
• Landforms in Alberta
  A dedicated section highlighting the unique landforms found in Alberta. Students will discover the geographical richness of their province, building a sense of connection to the local environment.
• Investigating Valleys in Alberta:
  It is an exciting opportunity for kids to explore a valley near them, applying the knowledge gained from the workbook. This hands-on investigation fosters a deeper connection to the landforms within their immediate surroundings.
• Comparing Major Valleys in Alberta:
• UNESCO Heritage Sites in Alberta:
  An exploration of the amazing parks in Alberta recognized as UNESCO Heritage Sites. This section introduces students to the significance of preserving natural wonders and the importance of responsible stewardship.

Light Science Pack for Grade 2

*Includes two versions of the workbook*

• Version 1: Tracing key vocabulary
• Version 2: Highlight underlined key terms and fill in the blanks with important vocabulary

Choose what works best for your class!

This product is specially designed for Grade 2 classrooms! Packed with engaging and interactive activities, this science pack is your go-to resource for exploring the fascinating world of light. Aligned with the curriculum shifts for the Alberta curriculum in 2023, this pack covers key topics that will spark curiosity and foster a love for science.

What's Inside:

1. Sources of Light Exploration:

Investigate the Sun, electricity, fire, and even some plants and animals with bioluminescence. Discover how these sources bring light into our world!

2.Light Behaviors:

Learn how light travels in a straight line from its source, bounces off surfaces in reflection, bends in refraction, and even splits into a vibrant spectrum in dispersion.

3. The Path of Light:

Explore how the path of light is affected by natural and artificial elements.

4. EIGHT fun experiments:

• Mystery Boxes: to understand why we can see things around us
• Glow sticks experiment: To understand how bioluminescence works.
• Light Travels experiment
• Light Reflection experiment
• Arrow Flip experiment (refraction)
• Broken pencil (refraction)
• Making your own rainbow with a glass of water (dispersion)
• Making your own rainbow with a prism (dispersion)

Educational Tools Included:

• Lab Worksheets: Dive into exciting experiments with step-by-step guidance.
• Cut Outs: Bring concepts to life with visual aids for hands-on learning.
• Assessment
• Teacher's Notes: Detailed guidance to enhance your teaching experience.

All documents come with an ANSWER KEY

Why Choose My Science Pack:

• Engaging Content: Captivate young minds with interactive and age-appropriate content.
• Curriculum Aligned: Designed to meet the Alberta curriculum shifts for 2023.
• Comprehensive Resources: All-in-one pack for a seamless teaching and learning experience.

*Includes two versions of the workbook*

• Version 1: Tracing key vocabulary
• Version 2: Highlight underlined key terms and fill in the blanks with important vocabulary

Choose what works best for your class!

The "Investigating Sound" package is packed with 140 pages of carefully curated content, ensuring that you have everything you need to deliver engaging and effective lessons. This product includes:

1. Booklet: It covers all aspects of the sound unit in Grade 2. With clear explanations, interactive activities, and thought-provoking questions, the booklet will guide your students through their exploration of sound, ensuring a deep understanding of the topic.
2. Assessment Sheets: I have included assessment sheets. These sheets provide you with a structured way to evaluate your students' learning outcomes and track their growth throughout the unit.
3. Teacher's Notes: This product also includes detailed teacher's notes that provide guidance on how to use each component of the resource effectively. These notes offer valuable insights, tips, and suggestions to make your teaching experience smooth and successful.
4. Lab Worksheets: To enhance hands-on learning, we've included lab worksheets that allow your students to conduct exciting experiments and explore the properties of sound.
5. Cut Outs and Answer Keys: We understand the importance of providing visual aids and tools to support student learning. That's why I have included cutouts and answer keys to facilitate interactive and engaging activities that reinforce the concepts covered in the unit.

**This product aligns with the curriculum shifts of Alberta Education in 2023.

Topics explored:

• The behavior of sound:

  • Travelling
  • transferring
  • Bouncing off objects
  • Stopping in an object

• How sound is produced

• Sources of sound

• Characteristics of sound

• Properties and materials that affect the production and behavior of sound

"Earth's Relationship to the Sun"

• Explore the fascinating elements that make up our planet – land, water, air, plants, and the diversity of animals.
• Uncover the unique factors that make Earth the only known habitat for life in our vast universe.
• Understand the Earth's movements: Through hands-on activities and thought-provoking exercises, students will gain a deeper understanding of how these movements shape our days, nights, and the changing seasons.

This product includes:

• A 16-page workbook with his corresponding answer key
• Cutouts
• Assessment with Answer Key
• Teacher's Notes.

This material is based on Alberta's Curriculum Shifts for 2023

Are you a teacher looking for a comprehensive resource to teach your students about instruction design? This digital product is specifically tailored to meet the needs of elementary classrooms.

This engaging and interactive resource contains 65 pages of valuable content, including:

• a workbook for students,
• assessment
• teacher's notes,
• cut-outs and,
• answer keys for all documents.

With this comprehensive booklet, you'll have everything you need to effectively teach the topic of instruction designing in an engaging and informative way.

The "Designing Instructions" booklet covers various topics, ensuring that your students develop a thorough understanding of the main components of instruction design.

Through carefully crafted exercises, students will explore creativity and collaboration in the context of designing instructions. They will learn about the language that must be used in instructions and how it impacts the clarity and effectiveness of communication.

One of the highlights of this resource is the scaffolded worksheets provided for a group project. These worksheets guide students through the process of designing instructions step by step, ensuring that they develop a strong foundation in this essential skill. A Google Slides template is included, allowing students to showcase their projects digitally and further enhance their learning experience.

With this product, you'll be equipping your students with valuable skills that extend beyond the classroom. They will develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills while engaging in hands-on activities that foster creativity and collaboration.

This comprehensive resource focuses on natural and processed materials, exploring their properties and how they relate to different purposes. All concepts are broken down for easy understanding, focusing and key vocabulary and main ideas. With a total of 163 pages, this product offers 44 pages of engaging reading materials, multiple hands-on activities, 8 lab experiments, and a Google slides show.

Additionally, it includes 8 lab worksheets for conducting experiments, teacher notes for guidance and formal assessment worksheets. All products come with their corresponding answer key.

I am confident that this booklet will provide your students with a rich and interactive learning experience.

Properties of Materials explored:

•Size and Texture

•Transparency

•Absorbency

•Hardness

•Flexibility

•Malleability

•Buoyancy

•Reflection

•Durability

Activities included:

•Crack the Code

•Matching

•Cutting and Pasting

•Tracing

•Comparing and Contrasting

•Graphing

•Word searching

•Planning

Experiments:

•The Cracker Lab

•The Transparency Lab

•The Absorbency Lab

•The Rainbow Lab

•Keeping Teddy Dry Lab

•The Flexibility Lab

•The Cookie Dunk Lab

•The Reflection Lab

***This product aligns with Alberta's curriculum shifts for 2023.

Bring the fascinating world of animals and plants to life with "Living Systems: Life Cycles of Animals and Plants"!

This digital download pack is specifically designed for grade 2 students in alignment with the curriculum shifts of Alberta for 2023.

What's Included:

1. Workbook with Engaging Activities: This workbook is filled with fun and educational activities that will captivate your students' imagination. The workbook provides ample opportunities for children to compare and contrast life cycles, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of the topic.
2. Hands-On Activities: Encourage active learning with hands-on activities that make exploring life cycles a blast! This pack includes two captivating activities: a 3D model of a frog's life cycle (available in both black and white and full color) and a grasshopper life cycle foldable. These activities allow students to visually understand the different stages of these animals' life cycles.
3. Teachers' Notes: A valuable resource for educators, the pack contains detailed teachers' notes that guide how to effectively teach and implement the activities within the classroom. These notes offer insights, suggestions, and tips to enhance the learning experience.
4. Assessment: Assessing student understanding is made easy with the included assessments. These assessments ensure that students grasp the concepts taught in a meaningful way. Each assessment is aligned with Alberta's curriculum to accurately measure student progress.
5. Slide Show on Google Slides: Engage your students with a visually stunning slide show that showcases various animals and their offspring. The Google Slides presentation brings the content to life with captivating images and clear explanations.
6. Answer Keys: This pack offers convenience for educators with corresponding answer keys for all activities and assessments. Easily check student responses and provide timely and accurate feedback.

This is document complies information on the uses of natural materials by First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples.

This product contains:

• Easy to follow readings on uses and practices of natural materials by Indigenous Peoples
• Word-search, crack the code, a maze, tracing activities
• Build your own travois instructions.

"Bodies of Water in Alberta" Science Resource Pack – is a complete educational tool designed to engage and enlighten Grade 2 students. It aligns with the curriculum shifts of 2023. It explores Alberta's diverse aquatic landscapes, exploring oceans, glaciers, lakes, wetlands, and rivers.

This pack includes:

• • Student Booklet
  • Answer Keys
  • Cut Outs
  • Teacher's Notes
  • Assessment