NEW ALBERTA SCIENCE CURRICULUM - GRADE 2 EARTH SYSTEMS: INVESTIGATING EARTH, LAND & WATER in FRENCH!
This comprehensive 358-page resource is EVERYTHING you will need to teach the EARTH SYSTEMS strand of the new Alberta Science curriculum. Also, it includes ALL KUSPs of the strands for Scientific Methods and Computer Science. It's a 3-in-1 resource! In fact, each of the new topics will include the same, so by the end of the year, you will have taught everything.
What's included? Why should you buy it?
- 358 pages in total
✅ KUSPs for Earth Systems, Scientific Method, and Computer Science (activities included for all)
✅75+ possible learning activities described - easy to differentiate for what your students need. You pick and choose which activities you would like to use.
✅ I can statements including page numbers to reference for activities- For Energy, Scientific Method, and Computer Science
✅Teacher information that includes differentiated learning experiences (at a minimum of 5 activities to choose from. Also includes links to videos, online books, and other helpful websites. Also includes 11 check-ins and 1 unit assessment. (78 pages)
✅Student booklet (76 pages) Can be used individually, in small or in whole groups. Pick and choose which activities you'd like to include. Each sheet also has the skill and procedure outcome at the top for ease of reference.
✅Teaching Slides (153 pages) Great to guide your lessons and for visual information for your students. Helpful hints on the bottom of each slide. You can use them as PDF or in Google Slides (link is in teacher pack). Each slide has the corresponding skills and procedures outcome number for ease of reference. Links are embedded into the slides.
✅Posters, anchor charts, vocabulary cards (includes tier 3), picture cards, labels for sorting, sorting pictures, puzzle game, cootie catcher, would you rather, letters for bulletin boards (51 pages)
✅What's covered in Earth Systems?
-introductory poem to engage students
-I see, think, wonder
-What do we know about our Earth?
-Home sweet home - components of Earth
-What is air?
-Land on Earth
-Water on Earth
-People, Animals, Plants
-Block Coding activity (Unpluggged, as well as for Scratch Jr. -all instructions included)
-Rover on Mars
-Earth's revolution
-Earth's rotation
-Investigation: what if the sun never went down?
-Earth revolving activity
-Computer Science -if/then conditions
-Landforms
-Label the landform
-Landforms in Alberta
-Virtual field trip around Alberta looking at landforms
-Comparing landforms
-Coding landforms
-UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Alberta
-Postcard from Alberta
-Bodies of water
-Google Earth Research
-The flow of water
-How does water flow?
-Freshwater
-Saltwater
-Investigation: Egg
-Investigation: Comparing fresh and saltwater.
-Culminating projects: creating a landform/bodies of water model - complete with rubric
-Unit assessment
-11 check in's throughout the unit
-Cootie Catcher/Fortune Teller review activity
✅Posters:
-components of Earth
-Earth in the solar system
-Earth and Sun relationship
-Landforms
-Landforms and definitions
-Flow of water
-UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Alberta
-Matching puzzle game for landforms
-Vocabulary matching game
-Labels for sorting
-Would you rather questions- great for conversation starters, writing ideas.
✅What else?
- No Prep is required other than to photocopy the student booklet, print out the posters, etc.
- Super easy to follow.
- Matching/sorting game with cut-out pictures and labels.
- Includes First Nations, Métis, and Inuit information related to Earth Systems.
- Includes Art, Writing, and Math ideas.
- Uses Triangulation of Evidence for Assessment - Observations, Conversations, and Products. Included for each Skill and Procedure, so you can assess throughout the unit.
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Total Pages: 358 pages
Answer Key: Included
Teaching Duration: 2 months