Grade 2 Teaching Dashboard

RS4K Grade 2 Teaching Dashboard

Welcome to your Grade 2 teacher dashboard. Each unit contains lesson plans, printables, and digital readers.

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Force & Motion 7 Lessons

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Students explore forces, motion, and energy through hands-on investigations, discovering how pushes, pulls, and different types of motion govern the physical world.

Lessons	Focus	Teacher Instructions	Reader	Unit Activity	Resources
1DCI	What Are Things Made Of?	Lesson Plan	Atoms		Printables
2DCI	What Makes Something Move?	Lesson Plan	Force		Printables
3DCI	Linear Motion	Lesson Plan	Linear Motion		Printables
4DCI	Rotational Motion	Lesson Plan	Wheels on a Bike: A Look at Rotational Motion		Printables
5ENG	Marble Maze: Design	Lesson Plan			Printables
6ENG	Marble Maze: Build	Lesson Plan		Polymer Lab	Printables
7WRAP	Unit Wrap Up	Lesson Plan			Printables

Sunlight & Shade 7 Lessons

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Students explore heat, light, and energy, discovering how the sun powers living systems and how energy transforms as it moves through plants and the environment.

Lessons	Focus	Teacher Instructions	Reader	Unit Activity	Resources
1DCI	What Is Heat?	Lesson Plan	Heat		Printables
2DCI	What Is Light?	Lesson Plan	Light We Can See		Printables
3DCI	What Is Energy?	Lesson Plan	Energy		Printables
4DCI	The Sun	Lesson Plan	The Sun		Printables
5ENG	Shady Solutions: Define & Design	Lesson Plan	Temperature		Printables
6ENG	Shady Solutions: Build	Lesson Plan		The Plant-Animal Connection	Printables
7WRAP	Unit Wrap Up	Lesson Plan			Printables

Matter & Its Properties 7 Lessons

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Students investigate the properties of matter, exploring how atoms and molecules combine to form substances, and how chemical reactions create new materials.

Lessons	Focus	Teacher Instructions	Reader	Unit Activity	Resources
1DCI	What Is Matter?	Lesson Plan	Atoms		Printables
2DCI	Molecules	Lesson Plan	Molecules		Printables
3DCI	Types of Molecules	Lesson Plan	Atoms and Molecules Meet		Printables
4DCI	Solids, Liquids, & Gases	Lesson Plan	Solids, Liquids, and Gases		Printables
5DCI	Chemical Reactions	Lesson Plan	French Fries and Fizzy Pop!		Printables
6DCI	Playing with Polymers	Lesson Plan	Plastic Pink Flamingos	Earth Model	Printables
7WRAP	Unit Wrap Up	Lesson Plan			Printables

Plants & Animals 7 Lessons

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Students explore living cells, DNA, and proteins, discovering how plants and animals are alike and different at the cellular level, including the essential role of photosynthesis.

Lessons	Focus	Teacher Instructions	Reader	Unit Activity	Resources
1DCI	What Are Cells?	Lesson Plan	The Cell: A Tiny City		Printables
2DCI	What Makes Plants Special?	Lesson Plan	Plant Cells vs Animal Cells		Printables
3DCI	DNA: The Instruction Book	Lesson Plan	DNA		Printables
4DCI	Proteins: The Tiny Workers Inside Cells	Lesson Plan	Proteins	Volcano Model	Printables
5DCI	Photosynthesis: How Plants Make Their Own Food	Lesson Plan	Photosynthesis		Printables
6DCI	Unit Activity – The Plant and Animal Connection	Lesson Plan			Printables
7WRAP	Unit Wrap Up	Lesson Plan			Printables

Grade 2 Reader Library

Curated digital readers for guided and independent reading across all units and subjects.

22 Readers

Grade 2 Base

Protozoa

440LBiology

Microscopes

450LBiology

Acids and Bases

460LChemistry

Unit 1 · Force & Motion

⚠️ Language note: When discussing forces and motion, always anchor to atoms: "A force is a push or pull that makes atoms and objects speed up, slow down, or change direction." Avoid saying objects "want to" move.

Atoms

340LChemistry

Force

350LPhysics

Linear Motion

420LPhysics

Wheels on a Bike: A Look at Rotational Motion

480LPhysics

Unit 2 · Sunlight & Shade

⚠️ Language note: When discussing energy in photosynthesis, avoid making energy sound like a physical object. Instead: "Plants use energy from the sun to rearrange atoms from air and water into food."

Heat

NEWChemistry

Light We Can See

NEWPhysics

Energy

420LPhysics

The Sun

NEWAstronomy

Temperature

NEWChemistry

Unit 3 · Matter & Its Properties

⚠️ Language note: When discussing solids, liquids, and gases, frame through atoms: "In a solid, atoms are packed tightly. In a liquid, they slide past each other. In a gas, they spread far apart." Avoid saying heat "flows into" objects.

Atoms

340LChemistry

Molecules

460LChemistry

French Fries and Fizzy Pop!

350LChemistry

Solids, Liquids, and Gases

490LChemistry

Atoms and Molecules Meet

470LChemistry

Plastic Pink Flamingos

410LChemistry

Unit 4 · Plants & Animals

⚠️ Language note: When discussing cells, connect to atoms: "All living things are made of cells, and cells are made of atoms arranged into molecules like DNA and proteins." Avoid treating 'life' as separate from chemistry.