Grade 2 Resources

Units 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Glossary | 200's chart

 


Unit 1 - Welcome to Second Grade

Content Covered: Data analysis. Word problems. Ten frames.

Vocabulary: Ten Frame

Web Resources coming soon

Smart Notebook Connections and Resources

Triangle flash cards

 

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Unit 2 - Exploring Numbers

Vocabulary: Even Number, Horizontal Axis, Interval, Left Over, Odd Number, Tally Marks, 200 Chart

Web Resources

Interactive Number line (teacher tool)

Smart Notebook Connections and Resources

Sq_inch_tiles_grid.xbk  Make your own tile design.

100s_chart.xbk Moving around the 100s chart.

100 chart patterns

Even and Odd

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Unit 3 - Buttons: A Baseline Assessment Unit

Content Covered: Data collection, graphing and exploration with buttons. Triangle Flash Cards.. Word Problems.

Vocabulary: Sum, Triangle Flash Cards

 

Smart Notebook Connections and Resources

 

Triangle flash cards

Greater than less than

Lab: Button Sizer

 

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Unit 4 - Working with Data

Content Covered: Data collection, graphing and exploration with armspan and height.  Non-standard units of measurement – handspans and cubits.

Vocabulary: Arm Span, Cubit, Estimate, Hand Span, Square, Variable

Web Resources

Volume Activities

Smart Notebook Connections and Resources coming soon

Lab: Lesson 1: High, Wide and Handsome

 

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Unit 5 - Going to Great Lengths

Content Covered:  What’s my location on a number line? Measuring using a meter stick. Data collection, graphing and explore.

Vocabulary: Centimeter, Interval, Median, Meter, Standard Unit of Measure, Number Line

Web Resources

Interactive Number line (teacher tool)

Smart Notebook Connections and Resources

Ruler

Lab: Lesson 4 - Rolling Along in Centimeters

 

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Unit 6 - Putting Numbers in their Places

Content Covered: Telling time, Place value mat, Base-ten board

Vocabulary: Base Ten Pieces, One, Ten, Hundred, Place Value, Volume

Web Resources

Number Line Arithmetic (NLVM)

Number Line Bounce

Smart Notebook Connections and Resources coming soon

Lab: Lesson 5 - Marshmallows and Containers

 

* Student Practice Resources *

Matching Time Activities (OSCD) – match correct digital clock to the analog clock

To the ½ hour

To the 15 minute

To the 5 minute

To the minute

Match the times in words

 

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Unit 7 - Building with Cubes

Content Covered: Cube model plans, Volume

Vocabulary: Cube Model, Cube Model Plan, Volume

Web Resources

Isometric Drawing Tool (teaching tool)

Smart Notebook Connections and Resources coming soon

 

 

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Unit 8 - Multiple Masses

Content Covered: Comparing masses, Analyzing mass, Measuring mass, What’s the total mass?

Vocabulary: Equal Arm Balance, Gram, Mass

Web Resources

Weigh it Up

 Smart Notebook Connections and Resources coming soon

 

 

Lab: Lesson 3 - Measuring Mass

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Unit 9 - Ways of Adding Larger Numbers

Content Covered:  Estimation, Problem solving methods, Many ways to solve a problem

Vocabulary: Estimation, Tally marks, Reasonable, Benchmark

Web Resources

Base Blocks-demonstration

Base Block Addition

Smart Notebook Connections and Resources

addition

base_10_chart.xbk

 

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Unit 10 - Exploring Volume

Content Covered: Reading scales, Reading graduated cylinders, Measuring volume

Vocabulary

Cubic Centimeter, Mass, Meniscus, Volume, Graduated Cylinder

SmartBoard Resources

Graduated Cylinder - grad_cylinder_lg.xbk - Look at the graduated cylinder.  Point to a number.  Tell the value of the number.

Lab: Lesson 4 - Measuring Volume

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Unit 11 - Ways of Subtracting Larger Numbers

Content Covered: Estimate the answer first, Show your thinking using tally marks, base-ten pieces and paper and pencil.

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Vocabulary: Fact Families, Related Facts, Difference

Web Resources

Base Blocks introduction

Base Block Subtraction

Smart Notebook Connections and Resources coming soon

 


Unit 12 - Grouping, Sharing and Leftovers

Content Covered: Grouping numbers with remainders.

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Vocabulary: Multiplication Sentence, Product, Number Sentence, Remainder

Smart Notebook Connections and Resources

division

Lesson 1 - Grouping numbers with remainders.  Show numbers in groups of 2s and 3s with remainders. cm_grid_grouping.xbk


Unit 13 - Sampling Sorting and Science

Content Covered: Classifying and sorting lids. Undercover investigation for sorting lids.

Vocabulary

Sample, Value, Variable

Labs: Lesson 1 - Classifying & Sorting Lids, Lesson 4 - Undercover Investigation

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Unit 14 - Fractions: The Whole Idea

Content Covered: Fraction strips, One half plus one-fourth,  Tile fraction puzzles Fractions: ¼, ½, 1/3, and ¾.

Vocabulary: Fourth, Fraction, Half, Third

Web Resources

Fractions (NLVM) demonstration

Fractions-Parts of a whole demonstration

Fractions-Naming (NLVM)

Fractions-Visualizing (challenge)

Smart Notebook Connections and Resources

Lesson 3 – Tile Fraction Puzzles - Cover the shapes with tiles.  Sq_inch_tiles_fractions.xbk

 

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Unit 15 - Geometry in Motion

Content Covered: Pattern block attributes: opposite sides parallel, opposite sides equal in length, how many sides are there, and do all the corners look the same? Flips, slides and turns.  Line and turn symmetry. 

Vocabulary: Corner, Cylinder, Flip, Line Symmetry, Line of Symmetry, Parallel Lines, Rectangle, Reflection, Rotation, Rotational Symmetry, Rectangle, Rectangular Prism, Slide, Square, Translation, Trapezoid, Turn, Turn Symmetry

Web Resources

Pattern blocks (Arcytech)

Tangrams (NLVM)

Tangram2

Symmetry Video

Smart Notebook Connections and Resources coming soon

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Unit 16 - Measuring Area

Content Covered: Finding area. Length, width and area designs.

Vocabulary

Area, Width

SmartBoard Resources

Area template – cm_grid.xbk

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Unit 17 - Investigating 3D Shapes

Content Covered

Alike and different. Comparing 3-D shapes. Describing 3-D shapes. Edges, vertices and faces.

Vocabulary

Cone, Cube, Edge, Face, Prism, Pyramid, Rectangular Prism, Rectangular Pyramid, Sphere, Vertex,
2 Dimensional Shapes, Triangular Prism, Triangular Pyramid

Lab: Lesson 1 - Alike and Different

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Unit 18 - Mapping the Rain Forest

Content Covered: Mr. O.  Moving left and right on a number line.

Vocabulary

Mr. Origin, Above, Axis, Origin

Lab: Lesson 4 - Mr. O Left/Right or Front/Back

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Unit 19 - Patterns and Data

Content Covered: Data collection, graphing and exploration with counting kids. Function machines.

Vocabulary: Function Machine Survey

Web Resources

Function Machines

Smart Notebook Connections and Resources coming soon

Lab: Lesson 2 - Counting Kids

 

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Unit 20 - Putting Fractions to Use

Content Covered: Classroom fractions, Geoboard fractions, End of the year test.

Vocabulary: Perimeter

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Money and Time Resources

Use these sites to reinforce time and money skills throughout the year.

Money

Toon University-Counting Money

Math Builders