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2nd Grade Lesson Plans

Students learn best when they are engaged. Second graders have now mastered the basics and need a push towards solving more complex word problems, introductory multiplication, and building fluency in reading & writing. Using Education.com's second grade lesson plans will keep students continuously engaged and growing in every academic subject.

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Vertebrate or Invertebrate?

Vertebrate or Invertebrate?

Use this lesson to teach your students about the different types of species and how to categorize them! Your students will learn characteristics about vertebrates and invertebrates.

2nd grade

Science

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Super Sequencing!

Super Sequencing!

Teach your students about sequencing with this creative language arts lesson. After putting events in order and drawing their own stories, kids will be pros at using the words "first," "next," "then," and "last."

1st grade

Reading & writing

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3 Types Of Resources

3 Types Of Resources

Our community relies on different kinds of resources to operate successfully. In this lesson, your students will learn how capital, human, and natural resources are all important for the functioning of a productive society.

2nd grade

Social studies

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Finding the Moral

Finding the Moral

In this lesson your students will find and examine the morals in the classic folktales of "Stone Soup" and "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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What is Recycling?

What is Recycling?

What is recycling all about? What can and can't be recycled? What can I do to help others understand the importance of recycling? This activity helps students answer all of these questions as they learn about saving planet Earth.

2nd grade

Science

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Typing 101: Introduction to Home Keys and Finger Placement

Typing 101: Introduction to Home Keys and Finger Placement

Teach your students about the basics of typing from the convenience of your classroom. Before heading to the computer lab, help your students familiarize themselves with the home keys and finger placements in a fun and interactive way!

Kindergarten

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2-D Shapes

Shape up your students' understanding of geometrical attributes with this hands-on math lesson. Students will gain a better understanding of how to describe a shape by the number of edges and vertices it has, rather than by its name.

2nd grade

Math

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Alphabetical Order

Alphabetical Order

Students will practice real world organizing as they learn how to alphabetize the classroom library.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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Inflectional Endings: -ing and -ed

Inflectional Endings: -ing and -ed

Wondering how to teach your second graders about inflectional endings? Look no further. After playing with dice and learning through song, your students will be adding *-ing* and *-ed* like pros.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension

Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension

Use this lesson to teach students about the importance of reading fluently to support comprehension. Use as a stand alone activity or a support for the Increasing Reading Stamina and Comprehension lesson plan.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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It's A Small World: Different Cultures

It's A Small World: Different Cultures

Make your students global citizens with this lesson that has them learn about the different cultures of the world.

1st grade

Social studies

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Adventures with Adverbs

Adventures with Adverbs

This fun writing lesson will introduce students to different adverbs. Your little kids will be much more confident in their grammar after working through some comprehensive worksheets.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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Money Math!

Money makes the world go 'round, but do your students know why money is important? In this lesson, students will learn the real world applications of money, as well as how to make a dollar with various coins.

2nd grade

Math

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Bar Graphs: Interpreting Data

Bar Graphs: Interpreting Data

In this lesson, students will make bar graphs and interpret data using real-life data from other students. They will get practice writing and answering survey questions.

2nd grade

Math

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Classroom Map

Have you ever had to explain to someone where something is? Learning to create a map is a fun way to show where objects and places are.

2nd grade

Social studies

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Learning About Cause and Effect!

Learning About Cause and Effect!

Help your students understand what cause and effect looks like in everyday situations! This hands-on, engaging lesson plan allows students to examine cause and effect in their own lives as well as fictional text!

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Elaborating on My Feelings

Elaborating on My Feelings

Identifying and describing their feelings is an important part of the way children develop social skills. This lesson teaches your students how to identify feelings, and then elaborate on them by speaking and writing in complete sentences.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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Numerous Names for Numbers

Numerous Names for Numbers

It is important for students to gain a better understanding of different ways to write numbers. In this lesson, your students will practice seeing numbers in various ways to help them comprehend the meaning of numbers.

1st grade

Math

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Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text

Use this lesson to help your students learn how to find the main idea and details in a nonfiction text using a graphic organizer for support.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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Collective Noun Farm

Collective Noun Farm

What has a herd of cows, a float of crocodiles, and everything in between? This quirky reading lesson, that's what. Your students will love learning about collective nouns through music, literature, writing, and arts and crafts.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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Estimating Length

Estimating Length

Advance your students from relative measurements to learning about standardized units with this lesson that teaches them about inches and feet by using common classroom objects.

2nd grade

Math

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Plan Your Story: Sequence of Events

Plan Your Story: Sequence of Events

Strong narratives have clear sequences of events. Through this lesson, students plan out what will happen in their story before they start writing their own engaging narratives.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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Potential And Kinetic Energy

Potential And Kinetic Energy

Walk, sleep, run, eat! We're constantly using energy, whether we're moving or not. In this lesson, students learn how their bodies are constantly converting potential energy into kinetic energy and kinetic energy back to potential energy.

1st grade

Science

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Greater Than, Less Than: Comparing Three-Digit Numbers

Greater Than, Less Than: Comparing Three-Digit Numbers

In this lesson, your students will compare numbers to one thousand using place value charts and symbols. Your students will love practicing with numbers!

2nd grade

Math

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Using the 5 W's

Using the 5 W's

This lesson will provide your ELs with support as they learn about nouns and practice retelling a story with a 5 W's graphic organizer. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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