What does a student learn in StateMaryland,GradeGrade 2,SubjectScience?

Students practice turning everyday curiosity into questions that can actually be tested. They also learn to describe a problem clearly enough that someone could design a solution for it.

Students draw or build simple models to show how something works, like a diagram of a water cycle or a sketch of a bridge design. The model helps explain an idea they can't easily show with words alone.

Students plan a test, run it, and record what happens to see if their idea holds up.

Students look at data from science activities, spot patterns in what they find, and explain what those patterns mean.

Students use counting, measuring, or simple math to back up what they observed in a science activity. A measurement or number helps explain why something happened or what they found out.

Students look at what they observed or tested, then use that evidence to explain why something happened or to come up with a way to fix a problem.

Students look at two different explanations or ideas, then use what they observed or tested to argue which one makes more sense.

Students gather information from books, videos, or observations, decide what is useful, and share what they learned with others using words, drawings, or simple charts.

Second graders examine how everyday materials look, feel, and behave. They observe what happens when materials are mixed, heated, or cooled, and use those observations to explain why things change.

Students explore how pushes and pulls make objects start moving, stop, or change direction. They test what happens when forces are stronger or weaker and begin to see patterns in how things move.

Students investigate how energy shows up in everyday forms like light, heat, and sound, and explore what happens when energy moves from one object to another.

Students explore how waves move energy from one place to another, like sound traveling through air or light bouncing off a mirror. They also look at how waves carry information, the way a radio signal brings music into a room.

Students look at how living things are built and how they work, from the tiny parts inside a plant or animal to the larger systems that keep it alive.

Students study how living things in a place depend on each other for food and shelter. They look at how plants, animals, and other creatures pass energy along when one eats another.

Students compare how parent plants and animals pass traits like color, size, or shape to their offspring, and notice which traits stay the same across generations and which ones differ.

Students look closely at living things to find what makes them alike and what makes each one different. That comparison helps explain how plants and animals have changed over long stretches of time.

Students learn where Earth sits in the solar system and how the sun, moon, and planets move in repeating patterns. They also explore how Earth itself has changed over a very long time.

Students learn how Earth's land, water, air, and living things connect and affect each other. They look at what happens when rain fills a river, wind moves soil, or plants grow in rocky ground.

Students look at how things people do (like building roads or cutting down trees) change the land, water, or air, and how natural events like floods or earthquakes affect where and how people live.

Students figure out what a problem is, come up with ways to fix it, then test their ideas and keep improving them until the design works better.

Second graders explore how inventions shape everyday life and how people's needs shape new inventions. They look at real examples, like how clean water systems or traffic lights were built to solve problems communities actually had.