Grade 2 Units

Browse Grade 2 unit plans in Science, Social Studies, Math, and Language Arts with standards-aligned lessons that support literacy, inquiry, and learning.

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Grade 2 Science Units

Unit Plan 11 (Grade 2 Science): Plant Structures & Growth

Second graders observe roots, stems, leaves, and flowers, explaining how plant structures help plants grow and survive using sunlight and water.

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Unit Plan 10 (Grade 2 Science): What Plants Need

Students plan and conduct investigations to show plants need sunlight and water, using observations and evidence to explain healthy plant growth.

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Unit Plan 9 (Grade 2 Science): Matter — Quarter Synthesis

Students synthesize learning about material properties, uses, and changes, using data, evidence, and engineering design to solve a simple matter problem.

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Unit Plan 8 (Grade 2 Science): Engineering with Materials

Students use material properties to design, test, compare, and improve simple tools, applying data and engineering thinking to solve real classroom problems.

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Unit Plan 7 (Grade 2 Science): Making New Objects

Students disassemble and reassemble objects made of small pieces, using observations to explain how the same parts can create many different designs.

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Unit Plan 6 (Grade 2 Science): Reversible vs. Irreversible Changes

Students investigate melting, freezing, dissolving, cooking, and burning, using evidence to decide which material changes are reversible and which are irreversible.

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Unit Plan 5 (Grade 2 Science): Changing Matter with Temperature

Students observe heating and cooling changes, classify reversible and nonreversible examples, and use evidence to argue which material changes can go back.

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Unit Plan 4 (Grade 2 Science): Solids, Liquids & Shape

Students investigate solids and liquids, observing how shape changes in containers and exploring water on Earth as both solid ice and liquid water.

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Unit Plan 3 (Grade 2 Science): Testing Material Properties

Students test and compare materials, analyze data, and decide which properties make materials best suited for specific purposes like strength or water resistance.

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Unit Plan 2 (Grade 2 Science): Properties of Materials

Students classify materials by texture, hardness, flexibility, and color as they plan investigations, test properties, record data, and explain grouping rules.

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Unit Plan 1 (Grade 2 Science): Science Routines & Inquiry

Build science routines as students practice lab safety, careful observation, data recording, and simple measurement to prepare for early engineering and design thinking.

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Grade 2 Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 36 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Cumulative Synthesis & Exhibition

Explore key Grade 2 Social Studies ideas—citizenship, maps, history, and economics—as students create interactive “Civic Fair” displays to showcase their year-long learning.

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Unit Plan 35 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Citizenship in Action

Help students explore fairness, cooperation, equality, and everyday citizenship through stories, meetings, and role-plays that show how their choices keep the classroom safe, kind, and fair.

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Unit Plan 34 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Working Together for Change

Students explore how people of all ages strengthen their communities through service, kindness, and small civic actions, practicing teamwork, respect, and simple decision-making to plan a class service project.

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Unit Plan 33 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Caring for Our Planet and People

Teach students how reusing, reducing, and recycling protect land, water, animals, and people, as they identify local environmental problems and take simple civic actions to care for their community.

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Unit Plan 32 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Natural and Human Resources

Explore how everyday products are made by connecting natural, human, and capital resources to the community’s factories, stores, roads, and other human-made features that help create and move goods.

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Unit Plan 31 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Choices and Trade

Help students explore needs, wants, choices, trade, and opportunity cost through simple classroom simulations that show how limited resources shape decisions.

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Unit Plan 30 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Why People Work

Help students explore why people work, how they earn, save, and spend money, and how choices involve opportunity cost, using stories, sorting activities, and simple class simulations.

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Unit Plan 29 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Producers and Consumers

Teach students to identify producers and consumers, sort goods and services, and recognize the natural, human, and capital resources behind everyday products and community jobs.

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Unit Plan 28 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Needs and Wants

Teach students the difference between needs and wants and how limited resources require making choices, using picture sorts, stories, and a class “store” to practice smart decision-making.

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Unit Plan 27 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Midyear Review—People, Progress, and Change

Review timelines, past/present changes, important people and holidays, and family traditions as students use photos, maps, and simple sources to show how communities grow and change over time.

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Unit Plan 26 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Leaders and Problem Solvers

Explore historical figures and community leaders who solved problems and served others, helping students understand why they’re remembered and how leaders support communities today.

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Unit Plan 25 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Inventions That Changed Lives

Explore how inventions, tools, and transportation have changed life over time, helping students learn about needs, wants, jobs, and the natural, human, and capital resources behind technology.

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Unit Plan 24 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Stories About the Past

Learn local and state history through books, photos, and oral stories as students practice identifying who, what, where, when, and why to retell key events.

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Unit Plan 23 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Change Over Time in Our Community

Explore how communities change over time by comparing past and present photos, artifacts, and accounts while learning to choose helpful, trustworthy evidence.