🌱 Science · Grade 2

The World Around Me 2

Habitats, plant tests, seeds, life cycles, growing bodies, heating and cooling, land and water, maps, people who made a difference, homes and food around the world, and festivals.

Units

1. Unit 1 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

   Habitats

   Find out why a frog lives in a pond and a camel in a desert, and draw who eats whom in a food chain.

2. Unit 2 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

   Testing what plants need

   Grow plants with and without light or water, and learn why a fair test changes only one thing.

3. Unit 3 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

   How seeds travel

   Find out how wind, animals and water carry seeds, and how a bee carries pollen from flower to flower.

4. Unit 4 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

   Life cycles

   Follow a butterfly, a frog and a bean plant through the stages of their lives, and see why the story always goes round again.

5. Unit 5 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

   Our bodies grow

   Measure how tall you are, see how much you have grown, and find out what food, sleep and moving do for a growing body.

6. Unit 6 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

   Heating and cooling

   Watch ice, chocolate and an egg change with heat, and find out which changes can be undone and which cannot.

7. Unit 7 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

   Building from pieces

   Build towers, bridges and walls from small pieces, take them apart, and build something new with the very same pieces.

8. Unit 8 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

   Land and water on Earth

   Find mountains, rivers, lakes and oceans on a globe and a map, and discover why Earth is called the blue planet.

9. Unit 9 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

   How land changes

   Use sand and water to see how rain and wind move land, and tell fast changes like landslides from slow ones like erosion.

10. Unit 10 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

    Maps and directions

    Find north, south, east and west, read a map key, and draw a map of your own neighbourhood.

11. Unit 11 · reading, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

    People who made a difference

    Hear the stories of Savitribai Phule and Florence Nightingale, and find out how one person can change many lives.

12. Unit 12 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

    Homes and food around the world

    Compare homes, food and clothing in a hot, a cold and a wet place, and see why each suits where people live.

13. Unit 13 · reading, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

    Festivals and cultures

    Meet Diwali, Eid, Christmas and Pongal, and find out how many cultures live side by side.