Sunday, June 9, 2013

grade: 2 End of the-year Review Guide

MATHEMATICS

Unit-I: Place Value up to 1000 (chapters 2 and 8) & Addition Subtraction facts (chapter 1)

  • Skip counting patterns of  2, 3, 4,5, 10, 20, 25, 50 , 100
  • modelling and representing values of  two and three digit numbers
  • writing numbers in word/expanded/standard form
  • comparing and ordering numbers
  • rounding to the nearest tens
  • using number line
  • What is a multi-digit number?
  • addition and subtraction facts up to twenty
  • relating addition and subtraction
  • making ten
  • adding three and four numbers
  • missing addends
  • addition and subtraction patterns
  • fact families

Essential Questions:  
  1. How does the first number of a multiple of 100 relate to the number of flats within that?
  2. What strategies can be used to continue numerical sequencing? 
  3. How can the same number be represented in multiple ways
  4. How can we use multiple representations of numbers to compare numbers?
  5. How are addition and subtraction related?
  6.  How are addition and subtraction related?


Unit-II:  Addition and Subtraction (chapters 4 and 5)

  • Properties of odd and even numbers (p. 93)
  • Identifying and classifying odd and even numbers
  • writing addition and subtraction number sentences
  • using arrays to model repeated addition
  • adding and subtracting with and without regrouping
  • using expanded form to break apart numbers
  • using addition to solve and check subtraction problems

Essential Questions:
  1.  How are even numbers and odd numbers different?
  2. How can you write an addition sentence for problems with equal groups?
  3. How does breaking apart a number make it easier to add?
  4. How can you use addition to solve subtraction problems?
  5. What are two different ways to write a subtraction problem? 
  6. How do you break apart addends to add tens and then add ones?

SCIENCE:

Unit-I: The Nature of Science
  • What are the five senses?
  • How do the five senses help scientists in their work?
  • How do scientists learn about the world?
  • What is science?
  • How can I be a scientists?
  • What tools do scientists use?
  • Scientists , observe, ask questions and investigate
Essential Questions:
  1. What is a scientist?
  2. What is the adventure of science all about?
  3. Why is science an important subject?

Unit-II: Nutrition
  • Plants, animals, and humans need certain nutrients to survive.
  • What is good health?
  • How can peaople be healthy?
  • How does exercise make us healthy?
  • What is the food pyramid?
  • How is a balanced diet different than diet?
  • How can a healthy diet affect a persons life span?
  • How can diseases affect our health?
Essential Questions:
  1. What basic needs do humans have?
  2. What choices can humans make to help their bodies stay strong and live a long life?

Unit-III: Natural Cycles and Patterns:
  • How does day change to night?
  • How does earth rotate?
  • Why do the seasons change?
  • How long does the earth take to orbit the sun?
  • What is an orbit?
  • Why is the earth and moon both a satellite?
  • Why does the moon shine?
  • Why does the moon appera to change shapes?
  • How does the moon affect the oceans on earth?
  • Why doesn't the moon float away into space?
  • Why can't we see the new moon?
  • What are the four basic moon phases?
  • What is the solar system?
  • How are inner planets different than outer planets?
  • How are orbits of planets alike and different?
  • How do we learn about the planets?
Essential Questions:
  1. What earthly patterns are revealed to us through by observing the movements between the Earth, Sun and Moon?
  2. How does the movement of the earth and the Moon affect the weather and climate in our environment?