Our science curriculum comes from two major sources.  First, second grade completes two experiential science units throughout the course of the year: Interactions and Plant and Animal Life Cycles.  The first begins in mid-October and ends around Thanksgiving.  The second begins in March and ends in May. 

In addition to these two core units, students participate in scientific activities such as visiting the planetarium is December, learning about Arctic Animals when completing their reports for writing, and discussing animals during Reader's Workshop when studying a theme entitled "Amazing Animals."

Since our literacy program is in-depth, science skills and concepts are often covered through units of study and themes of both our reading and writing programs.  Separate science instructional time is shared with social studies, handwriting, and grammar.  During these science lessons, the focus is on experiments and the scientific process while research and discovery elements of our science program are covered through the literacy program.