Grade 2 Science BC Learning Standards

Big Ideas

Questioning and predicting

Planning and conducting

Processing and analyzing data and information

Evaluating

Applying and innovating

Communicating

Students are expected to know the following:

Science

Curricular Competencies

Content

Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving

metamorphic and non-metamorphic life cycles of different organisms

Communicate observations and ideas using oral or written language, drawing, or role-play

Take part in caring for self, family, classroom and school through personal approaches

Compare observations with those of others

Experience and interpret the local environment

Make and record observations

Demonstrate curiosity and a sense of wonder about the world

Living things have life cycles adapted to their environment.

similarities and differences between offspring and parent

Express and reflect on personal experiences of place

Transfer and apply learning to new situations

Consider some environmental consequences of their actions

Recognize First Peoples stories (including oral and written narratives), songs, and art, as ways to share knowledge

Safely manipulate materials to test ideas and predictions

Observe objects and events in familiar contexts

Materials can be changed through physical and chemical processes.

First Peoples use of their knowledge of life cycles

Sort and classify data and information using drawings, pictographs and provided tables

Make and record simple measurements using informal or non-standard methods

Ask questions about familiar objects and events

Forces influence the motion of an object.

physical ways of changing materials

Compare observations with predictions through discussion

Make simple predictions about familiar objects and events

Water is essential to all living things, and it cycles through the environment.

chemical ways of changing materials

Identify simple patterns and connections

types of forces

water sources including local watersheds

water conservation

the water cycle

local First People's knowledge of water:

water cycles

conservation

connection to other systems