Alberta - Grade 2 Full Year Bundle - Math - Science - Social Studies

NEWLY UPDATED FOR THE 2022 AND 2023 CURRICULUMS! BOTH PDF AND GOOGLE SLIDES VERSIONS INCLUDED!

FULL YEAR BUNDLE - Teaching made easy! This NO PREP - PDF/GOOGLE SLIDES VERSION bundle includes everything you need to teach Math, Science and Social Studies. It covers all the expectations in the Alberta curriculums. Save hours of planning with our easy to print or distribute online bundle!

Check out each of the strands below to learn more about the resources included in this bundle.

Math

Strand 1 - Number (Number Sense)
Concepts that are covered:

• Representing natural numbers to 1000
• Place value – thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones
• Zero as a placeholder
• Counting within 1000 by 1s
• Skip counting by 2, 10, 20, 25, and 50
• Using coins and bills to skip count
• Even and odd numbers
• Sharing and grouping objects – even and odd numbers with remainders
• Partitioning sets of objects
• Estimating quantities using benchmarks
• Modelling equality and inequality between two numbers
• Comparing and ordering natural numbers – using greater than, equal to or less than
• Adding and subtracting using multiples of 10
• Solving addition and subtraction questions within 100
• Word problems using addition and subtraction
• Solving problems involving more than 2 addends
• Addition and subtraction facts to 20
• Mental math strategies
• Verifying a sum or difference using inverse operations
• Determining the missing quantity in a sum or difference
• Solving problems using addition and subtraction of measurable lengths
• Unit fractions
• Comparing unit fractions with the same denominator
• 4 Unit tests
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand 2 - Patterns and Time

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What are non-repeating patterns?
• Non-repeating patterns in nature – plants and animals
• Non-repeating patterns in your classroom
• Growing and shrinking patterns
• Increasing number patterns
• Skip counting patterns
• Finding patterns using a hundreds chart
• Finding the rule in an increasing pattern
• Repeating patterns
• Creating and extending repeating patterns using up to four elements
• Finding the pattern core in a repeating pattern
• Reading a calendar
• Important events on a calendar
• Describing duration using non-standard units of time
• Describing duration using standard units of time
• Comparing days, weeks, months, and years
• Elapsed time using days, weeks, months, and years
• Relationship between days, weeks, months, and years
• First Nations’ use of winter counts to track time (Nakoda First Nation)
• Creating your own winter count
• 3 Unit Tests
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand 3 - Geometry and Measurement

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Sorting shapes according to two geometric attributes
• Creating sorting rules to sort 2D shapes and 3D objects
• Faces, edges, and vertices of three-dimensional objects
• Relate the faces of three-dimensional shapes to two-dimensional shapes
• Create pictures using shapes – bridges, houses, etc.
• Describing translations, rotations, and reflections
• Performing translations, rotations, and reflections
• Recognize the translation, rotation, or reflection of shapes represented in artwork
• Measure length using non-standard units – finger width, paper clip, wingspan
• Compare and order measurements of different lengths
• Decide the most appropriate non-standard unit to use to measure a length
• Measure length with centimetres – standard unit
• Draw lengths by measuring using centimetres
• Estimate lengths using standard and non-standard units
• Investigate Indigenous methods for measuring length
• 3 Unit Tests
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand 4 - Statistics

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Generate questions to gather information
• Collect first-hand data from peers
• Record data in a table
• Frequency tables
• Tally charts
• Reading dot plots and answering questions
• Constructing dot plots from provided data and from data collected
• Reading pictographs and answering questions
• Constructing pictographs from provided data and from data collected
• Creating the scale on bar graphs
• Drawing bars for bar graphs
• Reading bar graphs and answering questions
• Constructing bar graphs from provided data and from data collected
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Science

Matter: Materials and Objects

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What are materials?
• Natural and human-made materials
• Describe materials using your senses
• What are objects?
• Common objects and the materials used to make them
• How many different materials are used to make an object
• Properties of common materials – waterproof, buoyant, reflective, transparent
• Experiment – will it sink or float?
• Research – things that float
• Life preservers – made from floating materials
• Waterproof materials
• Experiment – is the material absorbent or does it repel water?
• Experiment – catching bubbles
• Stretchy materials
• Experiment – Can you stick a wooden dowel through a balloon?
• Experiment – is the object transparent?
• Activity – does the material or object reflect light?
• Measuring the properties of materials: length and weight using non-standard units
• How the same materials are used for different purposes
• The purpose of objects – their function and the materials used to make them
• Testing different objects for different purposes
• Activity – creating something useful out of clay
• Experiment – cleaning up 3 different messes using three different tools
• Joining materials – nails, screws, glue, zippers, buttons, etc.
• Activity – using joining materials to make an object
• Activity – designing and building a pencil holder
• Coding – making objects using coding instructions
• Professionals using materials – carpenters, engineers, designers, knowledge keepers
• How the Indigenous use natural materials – no waste, take what they need, seasonal materials
• Dene Birchbark Baskets
• Red River Carts
• Activity – making a canoe
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

Energy (Light and Sound)

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is energy?
• Activity - light or sound energy?
• Activity – guess the sound
• Artificial versus natural sounds
• Making sounds – vibrations
• The journey of sound – vibrations, transfer, reflect, absorb
• Experiment – light maze
• Sound reflecting materials
• Experiment – creating a soundproof room/box
• Pitch, duration, and volume
• Activity – reading sentences in different pitches, volumes, and durations
• Experiment – testing the pitch with glasses of water
• Sound moves through matter – liquids, solids, and gases
• Experiment – how well does sound move through air, water, and solids
• Sound recording devices
• Musical instruments – how the shape, texture, and size of objects affects sound
• Activity – guess the musical instrument
• Light energy
• Natural versus artificial light
• Biggest source of light – The Sun
• Plants need the sun/light
• Experiment – effects of the sun on objects with and without sunscreen
• Light emitter or light reflector
• Coding – human made and natural light
• Light – colour and brightness
• Light moves through objects – transparency
• Shadows – light being blocked by objects
• Experiment – understanding shadows
• Activities – matching shadows with objects
• Light bending – refraction
• Experiment – model of light bending
• Light splitting into colours – dispersion
• Experiment – demonstrating light dispersion (splitting)
• Coding – automatic streetlights
• Writing code – lights in your room
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

Earth Systems (Landforms)

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• The Earth - land, water, air, living things
• Life on Earth
• Looking for life on other planets
• The Mars Rover
• Coding assignment – driving the Mars Rover
• STEM Assignment – making a rover
• What are landforms?
• Mountains – activities
• Activity - making a model mountain
• The Rocky Mountains
• Landform – hills (hills in Alberta and Parliament Hill)
• Landform – plateaus
• Activity – making a plateau
• Landform – valleys
• Experiment – making a valley
• Landform – plains in Alberta
• Volcanoes
• Experiment – making a volcano
• Bodies of water – freshwater vs saltwater
• Landforms – glaciers
• Wetlands in Alberta
• Activity – making a model wetland (swamp or marsh)
• Rivers in Alberta
• Lakes in Alberta
• Water’s Journey Downhill
• Dinosaur Provincial Park
• Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
• Earths rotation and revolution – 24 hour day/365 day year
• Day versus night
• Experiment – demonstrating the rotating Earth
• Cycles in our day and year
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Living Systems - Growth of Plants and Animals

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Metamorphic life cycles
• Non-metamorphic life cycles
• Amphibians
• Frog life cycle
• Mammals
• Dog life cycle
• Growth of humans – human life cycle
• Reptiles
• Snake life cycle
• Fish life cycle
• Bird life cycle
• Vertebrates versus invertebrates
• Experiment – modelling vertebrates and invertebrates
• Butterfly life cycle
• Story – the growth of a butterfly
• Ant life cycle
• Spider life cycle
• Activity – making a life cycle book
• Changing animals – piglet and pig, caterpillar and butterfly, etc.
• Seed plants – life cycle
• Bulb plants – life cycle
• How humans pollute the environment
• Humans destroying the homes of animals
• How humans can help the environment – reduce, reuse, recycle, repurpose
• Activity – building a recycled bird feeder
• Invasive species in Alberta
• Helping animals – parks, protected areas, recovering areas
• Coding activities – helping animals
• Indigenous sacred animals
• Indigenous beliefs – all living things are equal
• Indigenous groups respect the Earth – no waste, take only what they need, etc.
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

Social Studies

2.1 Canada’s Dynamic Communities

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• All about Canada
• Inuit, Acadian, and Prairie Communities in Canada
• Inuit communities in Canada – climate and location
• Surviving the Cold – Inuit way of life
• Story – Surviving the Cold
• Inuit communities – moving around (dogsled, snowmobile, snowshoes, kayak)
• Labrador Inuit Community – Way of life
• Labrador Inuit Ceremony – Tunngavik
• Activity – Inuit Throat Singing
• Inukshuks – reading and questions
• Activity – Building a clay Inukshuk
• Jobs in Inuit communities
• Acadians in Canada
• Acadian climates
• Acadian culture and way of life
• Acadian French Language
• Story – Day in the Life of an Acadian
• Activity – Playing an Acadian game – “Le Lancer de Pierre”
• Activity – Learning Acadian dances
• History – Joseph Broussard
• Acadians – Jobs and natural resources
• Prairie communities – Metis, First Nations, and European settlers
• Climate in the prairies
• Blackfoot communities – way of life
• Activity – Building a Blackfoot shelter (Tipi)
• Activity – Blackfoot Dreamcatcher
• Blackfoot Hero – Chief Crowfoot
• Storytelling – Little Fox’s Adventure
• Ukraine community on the Prairies
• Preparing land for crops
• Story – Life on the Prairies
• Natural resources on the Prairies
• Jobs on the prairies
• Activities – Word scramble and word search
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

2.2 A Community in the Past

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is a community?
• Which communities do you belong to?
• Describe your community
• The Indigenous People of Canada
• Treaties in Canada and Alberta
• Alberta before settlers
• Indigenous groups in your community
• Immigration to Canada
• Fur trade – early settlers
• Research – forts in your area
• Activity – Building a Model Fort
• Important features of a community
• History of Lethbridge, Alberta
• History of your community
• Immigrant families
• Where your ancestors came from
• Religious families
• Places of worship in your community
• Assignment – religious buildings near you
• Religious holidays in your community
• Ordering religious holidays
• Special days in Canada – Canadian culture
• Kwanzaa, Diwali, Passover
• Foods from different cultures
• Restaurants and grocery stores selling international foods
• Festivals in your community
• Winterlude, Calgary Stampede, Celtic Colours Festival
• Fall festivals
• Canadian Tulip Festival
• Heritage – values, traditions, culture, and artifacts
• Heritage Stories – Netherlands and Francophone Stories
• Activity – Recipes From My Heritage
• Story – Multiculturalism in Alberta
• Changing communities – Businesses opening and closing
• Multiculturalism in your community
• Activities – Word scramble and word search
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

This is a comprehensive bundle that will save you hours of planning! It has been tested and found effective in helping students achieve the learning goals setup by the Ministry of Education in their math curriculum.

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