Second Grade Links and Lessons

Second Grade Internet, Lesson Plans and WebQuest Sites (Click on the topic below to go to that screen.)
All About Me	Animals	Computer Skills
Constitution	ESL	Holiday Cultures
Famous People	Food Chain	Language Arts
Matter	Life Cycle of Plants	Math
Sound	Native Americans	Reading
Searching	State and Local Government	Weather

Social Studies Internet Sites	Social Studies Lesson Plans	Social Studies WebQuests
All About Me- Internet Sites	All About Me - Lesson Plans	All About Me - WebQuests
All About Me Here you will find directions for making a book all about yourself.
All About Me Unit This is a unit designed to develop literacy through the study of self.
Me Unit This unit evolves from the beginning of school when kids are learning about themselves and each other. It incorporates learning about body parts, the five senses, and families. It also deals with shapes and colors.
State and Local Government - Internet Sites	State and Local - Government	State and Local Government - WebQuests
Communities and Government Information put together by the federal government, Ben's Gov, that is great for young students of social interactions among groups of people.
Kids and Money - Learning about economics in the community.
A Power Point on Communities
State and Local Government A site suitable for children on state and local governments.	Who Pays for City Hall
Holiday Cultures - Internet Sites	Holiday Cultures - Lesson Plans	Holiday Cultures - WebQuests
Ask Jeeves About the Holidays Ask Jeeves offers several wonderful links for your students on holidays around the world.		Holiday WebQuest December holidays, multicultural holidays, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Los Posadas
Christmas Around the World Enter the site, World Wide Christmas and click on the different presents to receive information about a country's practice of celebrating Christmas.
Christmas Around the World - 30 different countries listed to click and find how they celebrate Christmas
Holidays Around the World Very nice; a must see!
Pilgrim Hall Museum
The First Thanksgiving
Native Americans Internet Sites	Native Americans Lesson Plans	Native Americans WebQuests
The National Portrait Gallery: Native Americans A top quality site with a lot of information.
To the Teacher of Native Americans You must read this list of "dos and Don'ts" if you teach Native Americans.

Constitution Internet Sites	Constitution Lesson Plans	Constitution WebQuests
Save the Bill of Rights Interactive	Picture Books and the Bill of Rights
A Constitutional Timeline
Justice Learning Scroll to the bottom of the screen and select from In Their Own Words for virtual tours of the different branches of government.
Teaching with Documents: Observing Constitution Day
Famous People - Internet Sites	Famous People - Lesson Plans	Famous People - WebQuests
A younger kid's site to learn more about famous people. (biographies)
A site where you can print coloring pages of famous people.
Science Internet Sites	Science Lesson Plans	Science WebQuests
Sound - Internet Sites	Sound - Lesson Plans	Sound - WebQuests
Scholastic Sounds Click on a disk to hear a sound and then match it with the correct picture.		Sound WebQuest Listen! What do you hear? How do you hear? Sound is all around us, but how are sounds made and heard? What makes sounds different? You are going on a journey to find the answer to these questions! After this experience you will never “hear” the same way, again.

Animals Internet Sites	Animal Lesson Plans	Animal WebQuests
Animals are available through Passport Part of Grolier	Animal Adaptations: Komodo Dragons Students learn about the importance of adaptations in helping an animal to survive. The Komodo dragon will be studied as an example.	A Bat WebQuest
Animal Discovery Point to the tab for Wild Animals to make your selection.	Steps Involved for a Teacher to Create a Butterfly Garden	An Insect's Perspective Students can choose an ant, a cockroach, a bee or a termite to study in this WebQuest Students write a letter, from an insect's perspective, to an exterminator to convince him/her that the insect should not be exterminated.
Animals of the World At this site you can learn about mammals, reptiles, insects, birds, and fish, and then play games to test your knowledge.	Animal Life Cycles Students will learn basic concepts related to insect life cycles, insect needs for life, insect habitats, and insect parts and functions.	Animal Hide and Seek- A second grade WebQuest on the study of animal camouflage. This unit integrates literacy, science, and technology by providing suggested literature related to the topic along with lots of kid-friendly web sites for research. Students then showcase their knowledge by writing a class camouflage book.
	Introduction to Adaptations The purpose of this lesson is to introduce adaptations. Students learn what an adaptation is by constructing two animals from different habitats. There are a variety of materials that teachers will need to have, such as wooden spoons, nose plugs, tan felt, etc	Whooo! An Owl WebQuest
Birmingham Zoo See RealVideo movies of the animals, visit and learn about the animals, and go on an African Safari. Includes animal pictures you can print and color.	Plant and Animal Life Cycles This one has K-5 materials to study both plant and animal life cycles and parts. On the opening screen click within the first paragraph and you can view and/or print a 27-page student workbook. You simply have to investigate!	Spiders: Friend or Foe? All the links don't still work but it's still a good project and learning experience.
Butterflies of North America This is a site with photographs of butterflies that live or migrate throughout North America. See if you can locate those who travel through North Carolina.		Spiders: A WebQuest
Creepy, Crawly Critters Interaction to learn more about insects. There's a set of instructions to make a A Spider Glider too.
Enchanted Learning After working here, you can also go to this location to get a worksheet on frogs.
Enchanted Learning Frog Quiz Frog Life Cycle Quiz
Frog Life Cycle There are empty circles in which you choose pictures to drop to show you know the life cycle of a frog!
Interactive Web sites for Spiders
My Froggy Page Lots of activities for frogs and some for toads
National Geographic - Little Kids Information on tree frogs, Koala bear families, giant Pandas, and how Dolphins play is available here.
National Geographic Kids is for older students and includes lots of animals.
Owls Enchanted Learning has valuable information about owls and links galore!
Proteacher This site covers lots of animals! Scroll down a little to see the 2nd-grade level.
Shrewsbury's Site Here is a butterfly life-cycle site that includes pictures of several different butterfly types and their cycles.
The Life Cycle of a Butterfly Butterflies and moths undergo complete metamorphosis in which they go through four different life stages.
Food Chain - Internet Sites	Food Chain - Lesson Plans	Food Chain - WebQuests
Apples "Things" for Teachers and Students	Apples are 'a Peelin' This second grade unit includes questions patterned after Bloom's Taxonomy and lots of ideas for involved learning. Ignore the page numbers associated with the activities if you like, and focus on the lessons that you can do with your students.	Johnny Appleseed: WebQuest This site is fabulous to use when teaching kids about Johnny Appleased and the different varsities of apples with their uses!
Apple Activities Alphabet Soup web site has lots of Stories, songs, recipes, and finger plays -- early childhood students will bite right into this "good apple"!
Concept of a Food Chain This web site explains the concept of a food chain and defines the basic elements of producer, consumer and decomposer. It has a movie and game-like activities too.
Food Chain This is a lesson plan for teachers to help students create different types of food chains and compare a balanced food chain to an unbalanced food chain. This one is very straightforward.
Johnny Appleseed Click on Johnny's Story for a very basic and entertaining tale of his life and accomplishments.
Planet Pals This very simple web site explains in a half a page what a food chain is. There are definitions for producer, consumer, and decomposer with a brief explanation of herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore. It also has a graphic organizer to show that energy is derived from the sun and is transferred to the producers, consumers, and decomposers.

Matter - Internet Sites	Matter - Lesson Plans	Matter - Webquests
Matter This is a wonderful site on matter, gases, liquids and solids.		Matter There is a slide show included that teaches about matter. The students team to make a magazine collage.
States of Matter		Matter is No Laughing Matter
Changes An interactive site where you can choose to heat or freeze an object.		Changes in Matter
More interactive changes in matter.
Interactive Matter Matters
Matter Slide Show
Weather - Internet Sites	Weather - -Lesson Plans	Weather - WebQuests
Clouds - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Forecasting - NOAA
Enchanted Learning: Weather Look It Up	Clouds Lesson 1
ProTeacher : Weather Dozens of interactive sites as well as lesson plans are available here.	Clouds Lesson 2
Weather and Disasters
Weather Games
Weather Maker - Interactive weather making machine - As you change the temperature at the equator, poles and the humidity the weather alters.
Weather Safety
Weather Stories
Windows to the Universe - is a wonderful science site which covers beginners through advanced students. Look under Teacher's Resources and click on Beginner or Intermediate or Advanced to see what's available. Students may select English or Spanish!
Life Cycle of Plants - Internet Sites	Life Cycle of Plants - Lesson Plans	Life Cycle of Plants - WebQuests
Life Cycle of Plants This is a wonderful child appropriate site for individual use or class presentation.	Plant Unit on Slides This is a site of a plant unit created on slides. You can view it and print it.	From Seed to Plant You are a detective trying to identify the life cycle of plants. Let's find out what makes them grow.
Math - Internet	Math - Lesson Plans	Math - WebQuests
AAA Math A wonderful source for students to practice new concepts.
A Plus Math Another great site to practice math concepts.
Ask Jeeves Math Type in a math related question and Jeeves delivers the answer!
Flashcards! Every level of flashcards is available. You can show them as a slide show and set the time!
FunBrain Math This is the number one site for Math Games K-8.
Homework Spot This site helps students and parents.		I Want Candy!
IXL - The entire second grade math curriculum with activities for every item. I f you completed Larson's Math, start here!
Investigating the Concept of Triangle and the Properties of Polygons: Making Triangles This is a two part investigation. In this first part, students use this online geoboard to make triangles. In the second part of the lesson students will make and compare a variety of polygons and describe the salient properties of the shapes they create.
Manipulatives for all types of mathematical representations including charts and graphs.	Smart Money Students will practice making money trades to equal $.25 kinesthetically and with manipulatives.
Math Cats! This an award-winning site that's so helpful!
Math Dictionary for Kids
Math Forum for elementary students
Developing Geometry Understandings and Spatial through Puzzle-like Problems with Tangrams Students drag and drop tangram pieces to create shapes. Students can explore problem solving skills using tangrams by clicking on the Tangram Challenges which is also interactive.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives As a whole-class demonstration, with small groups, or as individual remediation this site offers an excellent opportunity for teaching/reinforcing/reviewing essential concepts. It would be especially effective for the visual or tactile learner. The site's simple but colorful graphics are especially appealing and striking.
Word Problems Every teacher and every parent beg, "My kids need help with word problems!" Here's a site to help with this issue!
Reading - Internet Sites	Reading - Lesson Plans	Reading - WebQuests
Word Families The student will review the concept of word families. They will review rhyming words that end in — at, it, and all. The students will play the Flash Card Game and Word Scramble to help them recognize words that end in — at, it, and all. In the Flash Card Game the student sees the word, sees a picture that represents the word, and hears it pronounced.	A Child Becomes a Reader - K-3 Proven ideas from research for parents but it is worth the teacher's while to read! It tells you what to look for in the K-3 classrooms and where a student should be at the end of each grade (K-3) in reading.	Fairy Tales WebQuest This WebQuest asks second graders to write their own fairy tales. It is standards-based and provides a rubric for evaluation.
Flashcards! This site includes flashcards in reading and math on levels up to adults. Wonderful!
Language Arts - Internet	Language Arts - Lesson Plans	Language Arts - WebQuests
Story Writing with Arthur Developed for students in grades 1-3, this guide provides a wealth of reading comprehension and writing activities. Students work first to understand the elements of a story, and then are encouraged to create original ARTHUR stories based on their own experiences. This guide has received rave reviews from teachers across the country
The Text Mapping Project This introduction to Text mapping provides instruction for using it in the classroom for reading comprehension instruction. Teachers can explore how to make a scroll of text and mark it to help students understand structure and content.
Works Sited for Second Grade students - What should be cited by a 2nd grade student.
ESL - Internet	ESL - Lesson Plans	ESL - WebQuests
English Vocabulary Word Lists with Games, Puzzles and Quizzes You can study a set of words, then choose a game. Instead of studying the word list first, you can choose which game you want to play, then choose the set of words.
ESL Kidstuff -ESL & EFL children's resources for English teachers and parents. Over 1,000 flashcards images, hundreds of worksheets, crafts, games, jobs and lots more.		top of page
Computer Skills - Interactive	Computer Skills - Lesson Plans	Computer Skills - WebQuests
Character and Technology
Databases from DPI for instructional activities and data manipulation.
Growing with Technology We'll grow in terms and actions as we learn about how to use technology.
Name the Parts of a Spreadsheet
Parts of a Spreadsheet	Spreadsheet Connection 1st Friends Spreadsheet Connection 2nd Ice Cream Spreadsheet Connection 3rd Attendance Spreadsheet Connection 4th Rockets
Word Families The student will review the concept of word families. They will review rhyming words that end in — at, it, and all. The students will play the Flash Card Game and Word Scramble to help them recognize words that end in — at, it, and all. In the Flash Card Game the student sees the word, sees a picture that represents the word, and hears it pronounced.
Word Processing Language Arts activities using copy and save functions.