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Lesson Plans - 2nd Grade

Story of Silk

Students will learn the steps in the silk-making process. They will arrange sequencing cards to illustrate the steps. Later students will unravel a silkworm’s cocoon.

So Many Inventions!

Students listen to two books about Chinese inventions. Then they make a simple compass. Later students look at home for Chinese inventions, bring them to school, and make a display

Thank you, Thomas

Hear, read, write, draw and talk about scientist and inventor Thomas Alva Edison.

Recycle Inventions

The creative inventions of Leonardo daVinci inspire imaginative problem-solving as you design, construct, and paint your own invention.

Birth of Bits and Bytes

Build a flow chart to show the early achievements of computer scientists in the early days of the modern computer.