Art - Grade 2
Art - Grade 2 (1 of 1) explores the tools, elements, and principles of visual art from different cultures. The course explores art forms such as drawing, sketching, architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, and textile art. Topics include lines, shapes, patterns, balance, movement, rhythm, mood, repetition, expression, emphasis, theme, and solving design issues. The course concludes with the importance of community art and how to repurpose objects to create something new.
Foundations in Reading
Foundations in Reading (1 of 1) reviews reading skills that build a strong foundation for effective reading. Topics include: a review of sounds in words by pronouncing initial, medial vowel, and final phonemes by segmenting and blending phonemes. The course begins with reading one-syllable words and moves onto multi-syllable words, practice decoding words in isolation and in the context of sentences, poems, stories, as well as informational texts. Reading fluency focuses on reading for accuracy, rate, expression, purpose, and understanding.
Introduction to Computers
Introduction to Computers (1 of 1) provides essential background knowledge and practical instruction in the use of computers. Topics include how technology has shaped people and the world, how to be a safe and responsible digital citizen, and how to communicate and collaborate using digital tools. The course targets beginner-level skills in computer troubleshooting, keyboard use, word processing, slideshow software, spreadsheets, and basic internet skills.
Physical Education - Grade 2
Physical Education - Grade 2 (1 of 2) provides instruction on a variety of movements and physical activities for good health and provides the chance to demonstrate those skills. Topics include warming up (stretches with curling, bending, and twisting), exercises for specific body parts, movements like rolling, hopping, skipping, jumping, sliding, and running, and the importance of nutrition. Basketball is introduced to develop dribbling, passing, throwing, and catching skills.
Physical Education - Grade 2
Physical Education - Grade 2 (2 of 2) expands on foundational movements and motor skills important to maintaining a healthy body. The course explores moderate and vigorous activities such as jogging and sprinting, traveling in different pathways as well as around, under, and over obstacles, and sports such as baseball, volleyball, and soccer, as well as different types of dances. Topics include foundational motor skills like striking, serving, dribbling and kicking a ball, and moving to a beat and rhythm, as well as good sports behaviors such as safety, following rules, and sportsmanship.
Science - Grade 2
Science - Grade 2 (2 of 2) explores the structures of the human body, compares living things in different environments, and digs deeper into natural resources. Explorations include: the different types of landforms, bodies of water, and how to map both landforms and bodies of water. The course examines how changes are made to Earth’s surfaces through weathering, erosion, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes and floods. It digs deeper into the weather, seasons, and objects in the sky such as the Sun and Moon.
Science - Grade 2
Science - Grade 2 (1 of 2) covers many topics in science, including science processes, plants, animals, matter, energy, motion, and forces. Students will learn how scientists ask questions about objects, organisms, and events. They will identify and experiment with simple equipment and tools to make observations and gather data. Science 2 (1 of 2) allows students to identify and then compare and contrast the basic needs of living things for survival. Students will also get to identify and describe major stages in the life cycles of plants and animals. Students will get the chance to act as scientists by designing a solution to a human problem by mimicking the structure and function of plants and/or animals. Students will learn about the different types of matter, including their properties and changes that can be done to them. Science 2 (1 of 2) ends with students identifying the relationship between energy and motion and energy and forces. Students will also look at the concepts of electricity, gravity, and magnetism.
Social Studies - Grade 2
Social Studies - Grade 2 (1 of 2) explores how the world is interconnected globally through the study of geography and economics. It develops a spatial understanding of the world around to show how other cultures and civilizations are interconnected and have influenced the United States at the community, state, and national levels. United States history, world history, and civics are taught in a comparative context using various stories from the United States and around the world.
Social Studies - Grade 2
Social Studies - Grade 2 (2 of 2) describes how humans affect communities and environments of various regions. Students will learn about the geography and economics of environments around the world. They will also examine the uses of natural resources. Students will explore how goods and services move around the world and how people become producers and consumers in a global economy. Students will also learn to ask compelling and supporting questions, find and use sources, and write an argument and explanation of how people or groups affect the environment.