This page contains lesson plans and online tools to introduce Second grade students to environmental education and science topics related to our water resources. To open a lesson plan or activity, click the corresponding image.
Topic: What is a Wetland?
Students collect soil, water, and plants from a wetlands for a sensory introduction to wetlands ecosystems
Topic: What is a Watershed?
Topic: Life Cycles of Aquatic Organisms
S2L1. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the life cycles of different living organisms.
Students practice matching juvenile and adult aquatic organisms to learn about complete and incomplete metamorphosis
Next Generation Science Standards: Three-Dimensional Learning Unit
Phenomena: Floods
S2E3. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about how weather, plants, animals, and humans cause changes to the environment.
Five Lessons that introduce students to the causes of flooding, the effects of flooding on our communities and local wildlife, how Engineers work to control stormwater, how wetlands can manage floodwater like a sponge, and how beavers rely on flooding for survival
