NEW ALBERTA SCIENCE CURRICULUM - GRADE 2 FRENCH ENERGY - INVESTIGATING SOUND AND LIGHT
This comprehensive 375-page resource is EVERYTHING you will need to teach the Energy 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?
- 375 pages in total
✅ KUSPs for Energy, 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 8 check-ins and 2 unit assessment. (65 pages)
✅Student booklet (94 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 (151 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.
✅Posters, anchor charts, vocabulary cards, picture cards, labels for sorting, sorting pictures, would you rather, letters for bulletin boards (66 pages)
-Teaching Slides, Student booklet, Posters and assessments are all in French. Just the teacher plans are in English.
What's covered in Sound?
-introductory poem to engage students
-what is energy?
-sound energy
-the ear - how it works
-vibrations and experiment
-man-made and natural sounds
-guess the sound
-noise cancelling headphones
-how do people make sounds
-sound characteristics: volume, pitch, duration and experiments for each
-sound waves
-measuring sound - decibels
-Makey Makey project (computer science)
-ear safety - how loud is too loud?, poster project and rubric
-conditional statements with sound (computer science)
-how sound travels (straight line, absorption, reflection, transferring from object)
-sound with different materials (great tie-in with the Matter unit - type, size, texture, and shape) Includes investigations.
-animals and sound
-First Nations, Métis and Inuit connections with sound
-culminating activity - making a sound device, includes rubric and possible computer science activity if chosen.
-sound reflection
What's covered in Light?
-light energy
-the eye
-how we see
-how we take care of our eyes
-sources of light -sun, fire, bioluminescence, electricity
-First Nations, Métis and Inuit connections with light
-conditional statements with light (computer science)
-artificial and natural light
-Ozobot light maze activity (computer science)
-how light behaves (straight line, reflection, refraction, dispersion) and investigations for each
-how to make a rainbow investigation, can you make a rainbow in the dark investigation
-light through objects (transparent, translucent, opaque) and investigations
-shadows and investigation
-path of sunlight through trees, leaves, bodies of water and mountains
-light reflection
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 and activities.
- 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: 375 pages
Answer Key: Included
Teaching Duration: 2 months