Grade 2
Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies
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Designs grow out of natural curiosity.
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Skills can be developed through play.
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Technologies are tools that extend human capabilities.
Arts Education
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Creative expression develops our unique identity and voice.
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Inquiry through the artscreates opportunities for risk taking.
Career Education
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Effective collaboration relies on clear, respectful communication.
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Share ideas, information, personal feelings, and knowledge with others.
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Work respectfully and constructively with others to achieve common goals.
English Language Arts
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Playing with language helps us discover how language works.
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Plan and create a variety of communication forms for different purposes and audiences.
Physical & Health Education
Mathematics
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Number represents and describes quantity: Numbers to 100 can be decomposed into 10’s and 1’s.
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Developing computational fluency comes from a strong sense of number: Fluency in addition and subtraction with numbers to 100 requires understanding of place value and mental math strategies.
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We use patterns to represent identified regularities and to form generalizations: The regular change in increasing patterns can be identified.
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We can describe, measure, and compare spatial relationships: Objects and shapes have attributes.
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Analyzing data and chance help us to compare and interpret: Concrete items can be represented pictorially in a graph.
Science
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Questioning & Predicting - Make simple predictions about familiar objects and events.
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Planning & Conducting - Safely manipulate materials to test ideas and predictions.
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Processing & Analyzing Data and Information - Sort and classify data and information using drawings, pictographs and provided tables; Identify simple patterns and connections.
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Evaluating - Compare observations with those of others.
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Applying & Innovating - Transfer and apply learning to new situations; Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving.
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Communicating - Communicate observations and ideas using oral or written language, drawing, or role-play.
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Adopting healthy personal practices and safety strategies protects ourselves and others.
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Having good communication skills and managing our emotions enables us to develop and maintain healthy relationships.
Social Studies
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Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to: ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions.
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Ask questions, make inferences, and draw conclusions about the content and features of different types of sources.
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Sequence objects, images, and events, and explain why some aspects change and others stay the same.
