Science Homeschool Curriculum Skills List | Secular Second Grade

Science concepts create the themes for the units within Second Grade Complete. The questions for discussion of the concepts incorporate new vocabulary words that become part of your child’s usable vocabulary and stimulate higher-level thinking skills. The enrichment activities or experiments provided reinforce the skills being taught in a fun or challenging way.

• Observe and describe the weather.
• Recall the five senses and classify words within the categories.
• Use the five senses to describe apples.
• Understand the process of oxidation.
• Observe and compare two methods of growing seeds.
• Understand why animals migrate and predict when migration may occur.
• Learn about migration of people.
• Learn about magnets and magnetism.
• Conduct an experiment with magnets.
• Learn about the human eyes and how we should take care of them.
• Learn about digestion.
• Learn about what causes an animal to become an endangered species and what can be done to help.
• Demonstrate movements of animals: hopping, slithering, crawling.
• Learn about herbivores.
• Learn about reptiles.
• Learn about marsupials.
• Understand the importance of healthy living.
• Recognize foods in the four food groups.
• Recognize the characteristics and habitats of various types of animals.
• Understand and model the process of a water cycle.
• Demonstrate evaporation.
• Explain how condensation forms.
• Understand that the amount of water pressure affects how quickly water flows.
• Understand that chunks of rocks come in many sizes and shapes.
• Make a model of sedimentary layers and of sedimentary rock.
• Learn about rainforests.
• Make a diagram of the rainforest layers.
• Learn about food chains.
• Observe decomposition.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the life cycle of butterflies.
• Identify the parts of a butterfly.
• Design a symmetrical butterfly.
• Create a model of a bromeliad pond. 
• Build a hummingbird feeder and observe a hummingbird’s movements.
• Learn about the human eye.
• Understand how we should take care of the world.
• Classify objects.
• Explore the world through observation and experimentation.
• Make predictions and draw conclusions based on patterns or evidence.