1. Grade 2 Area: Life Science
Science Lesson Plans
Grade 2
Area: Life Science

2. Lesson #1 Animal Babies
Standard: Students will know that organisms reproduce offspring of their own kind and that offspring resemble their parents and one another
Materials: stuffed animals of pigs, zebras, elephants of different sizes and plastic toy figures of family with two parents and three children

3. Engagement Who made your breakfast this morning?
Do animals have families?

4. Exploration Group work: recorder, reporter, materials, manager
Materials given
Observe toys and discuss
Sort
Draw picture of sorting

5. Explanation Can you tell me why you sorted them that way?
What can we say about two animals of the same kind having babies?

6. Evaluation:
Handout
Adults
Babies
Put X
If you
agree

7. Elaboration: each group gets one of the following pictures
1. Two white rabbits
2. Two black rabbits
3. One white and one black rabbit
4. One brown and one black and white spotted rabbit
What will the babies look like?

8. Assessment Circulate about room and over- hear conversations
- Observation of group dynamics
will be noted on chart for each
group
Camera will be used to
document observing,
cooperating, communicating of
students
Assessment

9. That's it for Lesson #1 !

10. Lesson #2
Life Cycle of an Ant

11.
Page 1