Utah State Standards for Science: Grade 2

UT.I. Students will develop a sense of self.

I.1. Describe and adopt behaviors for health and safety.

I.1.a. Explain the importance of balance in a diet.

I.1.b. Distinguish communicable from noncommunicable diseases (e.g., chicken pox, common cold, flu; asthma, cancer, diabetes). 14
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I.1.c. Relate behaviors that can help prevent disease (e.g., hand washing, good nutrition, fitness, universal precautions). 20
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I.1.d. Identify the harmful effects of tobacco on self and others (e.g., death, heart and lung disease, shortness of breath). 1
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I.1.e. Adopt basic safety (e.g., wear a seatbelt, bicycle safety, find adult help in an emergency). 4
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I.2. Develop and apply skills in fine and gross motor movement.

I.2.a. Participate daily in sustained periods of physical activity that requires exertion (e.g., 1-5 minutes of walking, jogging, jump roping). 13
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I.2.b. Perform fundamental locomotor and nonlocomotor skills in movement sequences and game applications (e.g., walk-hop-skip, run-stretch-skate, run-hop-lay up). 18
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I.2.c. Perform manipulative skills exhibiting a majority of correct technique components (e.g., soccer kick: eyes on ball, step with foot opposite to kicking foot, contact ball with inside of foot, follow through). 6
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I.2.d. Identify components of physical fitness (i.e., strength, endurance, flexibility) and corresponding activities. 7
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I.2.e. Create and perform unique dance movements and sequences that expand physical skills while demonstrating personal and spatial awareness.

I.3. Develop and use skills to communicate ideas, information, and feelings.

I.3.a. Express personal experiences and imagination through dance, storytelling, music, and visual art.

I.3.b. Create works of art depicting depth and improving accuracy (e.g., close objects large, distant objects small) using secondary and tertiary colors. 4
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I.3.c. Develop ability to sing in tune with relaxed strength and clarity.

I.3.d. Develop consistency in rhythmic accuracy in body percussion and instrument playing. 1
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UT.II. Students will develop a sense of self in relation to families and community.

II.1. Describe behaviors that influence relationships with family and friends. 14
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II.1.a. Describe characteristics of healthy relationships (e.g., caring, responsibility, trust, respect). 14
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II.1.b. Identify benefits of cooperating and sharing. 14
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II.1.c. Explain how families and communities change over time. 28
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II.1.d. Recognize how choices and consequences affect self, peers, and family. 12
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II.1.e. Identify behaviors that might create conflict situations and ways to resolve them. 14
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II.2. Examine important aspects of the community and culture that strengthen relationships.

II.2.a. Explain why families, schools, and communities have rules. 7
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II.2.b. Compare rural, suburban, and urban communities. 16
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II.2.c. Relate goods and services to resources within the community. 23
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II.2.d. Participate in activities that promote public good (e.g., respect for cultural and ethnic differences, identify community needs) and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. 10
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II.2.e. Recognize the positive and negative impact of media. 2
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II.3. Express relationships in a variety of ways.

II.3.a. Describe traditions, music, dances, artwork, poems, rhymes, and stories that distinguish cultures. 4
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II.3.b. Develop an acting ability to relate to characters' thoughts and feelings (e.g., needs, hopes, frustrations, fears) in stories and plays. 3
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II.3.c. Create and perform/exhibit dances, visual art, music, and dramatic stories from a variety of cultures expressing the relationship between people and their culture.

UT.III. Students will develop an understanding of their environment.

III.1. Investigate relationships between plants and animals and how living things change during their lives.

III.1.a. Observe and describe relationships between plants and animals. 18
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III.1.b. Describe the life cycle of local plants and animals using diagrams and pictures. 135
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III.1.c. Create pictures and stories about real animals and compare them to make-believe stories about animals. 5
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III.2. Observe and describe weather.

III.2.a. Observe and describe patterns of change in weather. 7
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III.2.b. Measure, record, graph, and report changes in local weather. 16
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III.2.c. Describe how weather affects people and animals. 19
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III.2.d. Draw pictures and create dances and sounds that represent weather features (e.g., clouds, storms, snowfall). 4
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III.3. Investigate the properties and uses of rocks.

III.3.a. Describe rocks in terms of the parts that make up the rocks. 4
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III.3.b. Sort rocks based upon color, hardness, texture, layering, and particle size. 4
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III.3.c. Identify how the properties of rocks determine how people use them. 4
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III.3.d. Create artworks using rocks and rock products. 5
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III.4. Demonstrate how symbols and models are used to represent features of the environment.

III.4.a. Identify and use information on a map or globe (i.e., map key or legend, compass rose, physical features, continents, oceans). 3
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III.4.b. Use an atlas and globe to locate information. 4
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III.4.c. Locate continents and oceans on a map or globe (i.e., North America, Antarctica, Australia, Africa, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean). 2
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