Indiana State Standards for Science: Grade 2

IN.2.1. The Nature of Science and Technology: Students are actively engaged in exploring how the world works. They explore, observe, count, collect, measure, compare, and ask questions. They discuss observations and use tools to seek answers and solve problems. They share their findings.

2.1.1. Scientific Inquiry: Manipulate an object to gain additional information about it. 17
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2.1.2. Scientific Inquiry: Use tools, such as thermometers, magnifiers, rulers, or balances, to gain more information about objects. 18
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2.1.3. Scientific Inquiry: Describe, both in writing and verbally, objects as accurately as possible and compare observations with those of other people. 26
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2.1.4. Scientific Inquiry: Make new observations when there is disagreement among initial observations. 25
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2.1.5. The Scientific Enterprise: Demonstrate the ability to work with a team but still reach and communicate one's own conclusions about findings. 24
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2.1.6. Technology and Science: Use tools to investigate, observe, measure, design, and build things. 23
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2.1.7. Technology and Science: Recognize and describe ways that some materials can be used over again such as recycled paper, cans, and plastic jugs. 27
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IN.2.2. Scientific Thinking: Students begin to find answers to their questions about the world by using measurement, estimation, and observation as well as working with materials. They communicate with others through numbers, words, and drawings.

2.2.1. Computation and Estimation: Give estimates of numerical answers to problems before doing them formally. 62
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2.2.2. Computation and Estimation: Make quantitative estimates of familiar lengths, weights, and time intervals and check them by measurements. 65
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2.2.3. Computation and Estimation: Estimate and measure capacity using cups and pints. 66
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2.2.4. Manipulation and Observation: Assemble, describe, take apart, and/or reassemble constructions using such things as interlocking blocks and erector sets. Sometimes pictures or words may be used as a reference. 18
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2.2.5. Communication Skills: Draw pictures and write brief descriptions that correctly portray key features of an object. 23
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IN.2.3. The Physical Setting: Students investigate, describe, and discuss their natural surroundings. They wonder why things move and change.

2.3.1. The Earth and the Processes That Shape It: Investigate by observing and then describe that some events in nature have a repeating pattern such as seasons, day and night, and migrations. 57
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2.3.2. The Earth and the Processes That Shape It: Investigate, compare, and describe weather changes from day to day but recognize, describe, and chart that the temperature and amounts of rain or snow tend to be high, medium, or low in the same months every year. 129
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2.3.3. The Earth and the Processes That Shape It: Investigate by observing and then describing chunks of rocks and their many sizes and shapes, from boulders to grains of sand and even smaller. 5
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2.3.4. The Earth and the Processes That Shape It: Investigate by observing and then describing how animals and plants sometimes cause changes in their surroundings. 101
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2.3.5. Matter and Energy: Investigate that things can be done to materials, such as freezing, mixing, cutting, heating, wetting, etc., to change some of their properties and observe that not all materials respond in the same way. 7
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2.3.6. Matter and Energy: Discuss how people use electricity or burn fuels, such as wood, oil, coal, or natural gas, to cook their food and warm their houses. 5
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2.3.7. Forces of Nature: Investigate and observe that the way to change how something is moving is to give it a push or a pull. 17
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2.3.8. Forces of Nature: Demonstrate and observe that magnets can be used to make some things move without being touched. 7
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IN.2.4. The Living Environment: Students ask questions about a variety of living things and everyday events that can be answered through observations. They consider things and processes that plants and animals need to stay alive. Students begin to understand plant and animal interaction.

2.4.1. Diversity of Life: Observe and identify different external features of plants and animals and describe how these features help them live in different environments. 209
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2.4.2. Interdependence of Life: Observe that and describe how animals may use plants, or even other animals, for shelter and nesting. 209
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2.4.3. Interdependence of Life: Observe and explain that plants and animals both need to take in water, animals need to take in food, and plants need light. 191
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2.4.4. Interdependence of Life: Recognize and explain that living things are found almost everywhere in the world and that there are somewhat different kinds in different places. 64
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2.4.5. Interdependence of Life: Recognize and explain that materials in nature, such as grass, twigs, sticks, and leaves, can be recycled and used again, sometimes in different forms, such as in birds' nests. 12
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2.4.6. Human Identity: Observe and describe the different external features of people, such as their size, shape, and color of hair, skin, and eyes. 7
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2.4.7. Human Identity: Recognize and discuss that people are more like one another than they are like other animals. 8
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2.4.8. Human Identity: Give examples of different roles people have in families and communities. 43
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IN.2.5. The Mathematical World: Students apply mathematics in scientific contexts. They use numbers for computing, estimating, naming, measuring, and communicating specific information. They make picture and bar graphs. They recognize and describe shapes and patterns. They use evidence to explain how or why something happens.

2.5.1. Numbers: Recognize and explain that, in measuring, there is a need to use numbers between whole numbers, such as 2 1/2 centimeters. 45
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2.5.2. Numbers: Recognize and explain that it is often useful to estimate quantities. 47
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2.5.3. Shapes and Symbolic Relationships: Observe that and describe how changing one thing can cause changes in something else such as exercise and its effect on heart rate. 40
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2.5.4. Reasoning and Uncertainty: Begin to recognize and explain that people are more likely to believe ideas if good reasons are given for them. 16
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2.5.5. Reasoning and Uncertainty: Explain that some events can be predicted with certainty, such as sunrise and sunset, and some cannot, such as storms. Understand that people aren't always sure what will happen since they do not know everything that might have an effect. 54
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2.5.6. Reasoning and Uncertainty: Explain that sometimes a person can find out a lot (but not everything) about a group of things, such as insects, plants, or rocks, by studying just a few of them. 58
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IN.2.6. Common Themes: Students begin to observe how objects are similar and how they are different. They begin to identify parts of an object and recognize how these parts interact with the whole. They look for what changes and what does not change and make comparisons.

2.6.1. Systems: Investigate that most objects are made of parts. 69
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2.6.2. Models and Scale: Observe and explain that models may not be the same size, may be missing some details, or may not be able to do all of the same things as the real things. 54
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2.6.3. Constancy and Change: Describe that things can change in different ways, such as in size, weight, color, age, and movement. Investigate that some small changes can be detected by taking measurements. 140
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