Grade 2 Overall Expectations:
Assess ways in which the actions of humans have an impact on the quality of air and water, and ways in which the quality of air and water has an impact on living things.
- The Pout-pout Fish Cleans Up the Ocean by Diesen, Deborah (Book)
- Pollution by Orme, Helen (Book)
- I Am Earth by McDonald, Rebecca (Book)
- Nature Recycles: How About You? By Lord, Michele (Book)
- Arthur Turns Green by Brown, Marc (Book)
- Who Likes the Wind? by Kaner, Etta (Book)
- Pondering Pollution (ebook – Hoopla)
- Water Pollution (ebook – Hoopla)
- Pollution (article – WPL database)
- What Causes Air Pollution? (online resource – NASA Climate Kids)
- Water Pollution (online resource – Kiddle)
- Be a Green Kid (online resource – KidsHealth)
Investigate the characteristics of air and water and the visible/invisible effects of and changes to air and/or water in the environment.
- Water by Rau, Dana Meachen (Book)
- Water by Lauw, Darlene (Book)
- Water by Lawrence, Ellen (Book)
- Air by Lauw, Darlene (Book)
- Start Smart Science I Need to Know: Air and Wind (DVD)
- Air (ebook – Hoopla)
- Types of Air Around Us (ebook – Hoopla)
- Explore Water! (ebook – Hoopla)
- The Water Cycle (ebook – Hoopla)
- Water (ebook – Hoopla)
- How Empty is an Empty Bottle? (online resource – Science Buddies)
Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which air and water are used by living things to help them meet their basic needs.
- The Water Cycle by Kalman, Bobbie (Book)
- Water is Water: A Book About the Water Cycle by Paul, Miranda (Book)
- Rain by Flanagan, Alice K. (Book)
- Rain by Miles, Elizabeth (Book)
- Wind and Air Pressure by Rodgers, Alan (Book)
- Cracking Up: A Story About Erosion by Bailey, Jacqui (Book)
- Wind (ebook – Hoopla)
- Water (ebook – Hoopla)
- The Oxygen Cycle (ebook – Hoopla)
- Water, Water, Everywhere? (article – WPL database)
- 10 Interesting Things About Air (online resource – NASA Climate Kids)
- Water Facts (online resource – Science Kids)
- The Water Cycle (evideo – YouTube)
- How Rain is Formed (evideo – YouTube)
- What is Air? (evideo – YouTube)
- Learn about Pollution (evideo – YouTube)
- Changing the Shape of Land (evideo – Generation Genius)