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2nd Grade-1st Six Weeks

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Instructional Technology

2nd Grade - 1st Six Weeks

Below are ideas for technology integration that support the 1st six weeks in 2nd grade. Contact your Technology Facilitator for assistance.

Instructional Technology

ELA

Thinking Maps		Click here to access all the Thinking Map templates created in Kidspiration

Word Wall Words		2nd Grade Word Wall Words Slide Show

Unit 1		My Everyday Patterns
Lesson 1		Patterns Help Us Learn
Curriculum activity		Pattern Hunt: Assign each student a partner. Ask each pair to move around the room for 15-20 minutes and look for patterns. Tell them to write something about each pattern they see in their journals. They can draw a picture of the pattern if they want to.

		edCclass activBook e725: Shape Hunt

		edClass activBook e329: Patterns Everywhere

		Digital Camera, MS Word or MS Publisher
		Students can use the digital camera to take photos of patterns around the room. The photos could be inserted into MS Word or Publisher. Then, students would write about the patterns to fulfill the required activity.

Resource		Links Learning Patterns Video lesson with interactive component
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Math

Unit 2		Addition/Subtraction with Hundreds Chart
Lesson 1		Patterns in the 100s Chart
SE 2.5A		Find patterns in numbers such as in a 100s chart.

		Students will study the 100s chart with their partners and describe to their partner the number patterns they observe.
		AmbleWeb Interactive Hundred's Board AmbleWeb Interactive Hundred's Board 2 AmbleWeb Interactive Hundred's Board 3
		Students use one of the AmbleWeb Interactive Hundred's Boards to observe and discuss number patterns.

		edClass activBook e352: Mental Math

Six Weeks Enhancement		Problem Solving
		Students complete the Word Problems- Step by Step Activity Template in Kidspiration 3

Unit 2		Quantitative Reasoning
Lesson 1		Concrete representation of numbers
SE 2.1A, 2.1B		(A) use concrete models of hundreds, tens, and ones to represent a given whole number (up to 999) in various ways (B) use place value to read, write, and describe the value of whole numbers to 999

		Kidspiration 3
		Math View>Base 10 Blocks manipulatives Math Activities>Exploring Place Value

Unit 3		Comparing/Ordering of Numbers
Lesson 01		Comparing/Ordering of Whole Numbers
SE 2.1A		Use concrete models of hundreds, tens, and ones to represent a given whole number (up to 999) in various ways.

		Kidspiration 3 Math Activities>Comparing Numbers

SE 2.1B		Use place value to read, write, and describe the value of whole numbers to 999.

		Base Ten
		Students can use this website to practice teacher directed problems in the computer lab.
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Science

Unit 1		What is a Scientist?
Lesson 1		Thinking Like a Scientist
SE 2.3 C		Collect, record, and compare information using tools, including computers, hand lenses, rulers, primary balances, plastic beakers, magnets, collecting nets, notebooks, and safety goggles; timing devices, including clocks and stopwatches; weather instruments such as thermometers, wind vanes, and rain gauges; and materials to support observations of habitats of organisms such as terrariums and aquariums.

		Pixie 2


		Kidspiration 3


Unit 2		Change Occurs: Investigating Matter
Lesson 2		Comparing Changes
SE 2.5 B		Compare changes in materials caused by heating and cooling.

		Using apple slices and a dehydrator, students can observe changes in size, color and mass of the apple slices before and after dehydration. Observe objects (or pictures of objects) and explain orally or in writing the changes that have occurred, including changes in size, mass.
		Digital Camera/Power Point or MS Publisher
		Students use the digital camera to take photos of the apple slices to record the changes. Then, the photos could be inserted into MS Power Point or MS Publisher. Students would use one of the MS Office applications to write about the changes that occured, such as size and mass.
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Social Studies

Unit 1		Elements of a Community
Lesson 1		Characteristics of a Community
SE

		The teacher will give each student a piece of drawing paper. The student will illustrate one community to which they belong. The student will then write to describe the community, the members who belong to the community and the purpose of belonging to the community.
		*MS Paint*
		Students use MS Paint to create a document that fulfills this requirement.

Lesson 1		Characteristics of a Community
SE

		Groups of students will work together to present information about the person they learned about and how that person impacted the community.
		MS Publisher
		Students use MS Publisher to create a poster about the person to use during their presentation.

Lesson 5		Social Influences, Customs, Symbols and Celebrations
SE

		Write an acrostic poem to explain how the customs, symbols, and celebrations of the school unite people as a community.
		MS Publisher
		Students use MS Publisher to create an acrostic poem that fulfills this requirement.

		Read, Write, Think: Acrostic Poems
		Students use the Read, Write, Think Acrostic Poems web site to write a poem that fulfills this requirement.

Lesson 6		Review of Social, Geographic, Political and Economic Influences on a Community
SE
		Students will analyze a picture of a community and identify on a graphic organizer the political, economic, social, and geographic factors shown.

		Students use Kidspiration to create a graphic organizer that fulfills this requirement.
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