Grade 2 Science Oregon standards Standards

Physical Science

Life Science

Engineering, Technology, and the Application of Science

Earth & Space Science

Communities and Pluralism (H.CP)

Civics

Civic Engagement (C.CE)

Compare the personal point of view with others’ perspectives when participating in rule setting and addressing disagreements over issues of fairness or injustice.

Democratic Principles (C.DP)

Define, explain, and analyze different approaches to conflict resolution among individuals, groups, and communities.

Identity, Roles, and Responsibilities (C.IR)

Describe and analyze the many ways students can affect their local community.

Explain that all people born in the United States are citizens, many people become citizens after moving to the United States from another country, and that all residents of the United States are members of the community with rights and responsibilities.

Political Institutions (C.PI)

Identify local education and civic leaders and describe their role and responsibilities.

Explain the selection of political leaders through voting and democratic elections.

Economics

Earning, Saving, and Spending (E.ES)

Explain why people save money and the various saving methods, such as saving at home or in a bank account, to help reach both short and long-term financial goals.

Explain why employers pay people for their work.

Incentives, Choice, and Consumer Behavior (E.IC)

Give examples of choices people make about buying goods and services

Micro and Macro Economics (E.MI)

Describe how examples of capital, human, and natural resources are related to goods and services.

Provide examples of exchanges between buyers (consumers) and sellers (producers) in the community.

Specialization, Trade, and Interdependence (E.ST)

Explain why people specialize in producing goods and services.

Identify resources as renewable and non-renewable.

Earth's Place in the Universe

Use observations from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly.

Earth's Systems

Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land.

Develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in an area.

Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid.

Engineering Design

Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.

Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.

Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.

Geography

Geographic Reasoning (G.GR)

Use the information on maps and other geographic tools to locate, identify, and describe the physical and human features of the community.

Utilize maps and globes to investigate and identify the world’s physical geography.

Utilize maps and globes to investigate and identify the world’s political geography.

Human Environmental Interaction (G.HE)

Explain and describe how humans either adapt to, or change, the environment to meet their needs for survival and living and why humans prefer to settle by rivers, bodies of water, and in or near certain landforms.

Human Interaction and Interconnection (G.HI)

Explain how factors such as race, culture, religion, gender, indigeneity, and socioeconomic status contribute to identity.

Examine the group identities in a community and describe how a diversity of cultural elements can enrich it.

Compare and contrast the diverse aspects of culture represented in a community, such as individuals, events, songs, symbols, and celebrations.

Migration and Movement (G.MM)

Investigate the causes of regional and global migration.

History

Conflict and Cooperation (H.CC)

Describe how individuals and groups in the local community have functioned as changemakers for equity, equality, and freedom.

Cause and Effect (H.CE)

Use primary and secondary sources, including conducting interviews with family members, neighbors, friends, or school staff to discover and document where their families came from, inclusive of adoptive, blended, foster, and other forms of family, and how and why they moved to where they now live, and when and why their families came to Oregon.

Continuity and Change (H.CH)

Use chronological time to distinguish between events that happened in the recent and distant past.

Develop and analyze a timeline of events in the history of the local community.

Identify the history and contributions of traditionally underrepresented individuals and groups relevant to the local community.

Identify and describe community celebrations, landmarks, and symbols from a variety of traditions and explain why they are significant to the cultural heritage of members of the community.

Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Develop a simple model that mimics the function of an animal in dispersing seeds or pollinating plants.

Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.

Matter and Its Interactions

Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.

Analyze data obtained from testing different materials to determine which materials have the properties that are best suited for an intended purpose.

Make observations to construct an evidence-based account of how an object made of a small set of pieces can be disassembled and made into a new object.

Construct an argument with evidence that some changes caused by heating or cooling can be reversed and some cannot.