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Lesson Plans - 2nd Grade

Healthy Eating

Primary students investigate the age-old adage: You are what you eat. Students plan a healthy diet, create slideshow presentations to show how to make healthy food choices, learn about the food pyramid, interview classmates about food choices, and create a graph based on information gathered. Most importantly, students learn about how to make healthy food choices to live a long, healthy life.

Sky High Counting

This integrated unit actively involves kindergarten students in understanding the day sky, night sky, and movement of the sun across the sky as they learn to count to ten.

Shapes Are Everywhere at School!

The lessons provide many opportunities for students to sort shapes according to geometric shapes, as well as, attributes.

Weather Trackers

This is a second grade unit on weather called Weather Trackers. Students experience fun, fascinating facts about weather through hands-on activities about the rain cycle, measuring rain with a rain gauge, conducting experiments with temperature and making a cloud booklet.

Performing on Instruments

This mini unit plan enables students to familiarize themselves with the basic buiding blocks of music (notes and patterns).