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User Guide

ORC CURRICULUM MAP Grade 2 Science

Topics Included: Exploring Liquids, Boats and Buoyancy, Magnetism, Hot and Cold

Temperatures, Small Crawling and Flying Animals

Resources Included: Amazing Animals of the World, BookFLIX, PowerKnowledge Earth and

Space Science, PowerKnowledge Life Science, PowerKnowledge Physical Science, and TrueFLIX

Last Edited: April 10, 2016

Jamie Davis, ORC Coordinator [email protected]

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Background and Access Information

Learn Alberta’s Online Reference Centre is a $1.7 million collection of

authoritative curricular aligned resources that are licensed on behalf of all

students, staff, parents and public librarians learning/teaching/supporting

the Alberta curriculum.

To Access the Online Reference Centre:

1. Go to LearnAlberta.ca

2. Select English or French

3. Click on “Online Reference Centre” in the tab along the top of the screen

4. In school while on a school device, users do not need to enter a

username of password. Users are able to enter any database or website

instantly.

5. Access from a person device in school or remotely from outside of the

school will require the user to enter a username/password once to unlock

all of the resources.

6. Please share your district’s ORC username/password with your students,

parents of your students, student teachers and fellow staff members.

Please do not share the username and password information on an open

website (a website that does not require the user to login).

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How to Use This Guide

Attached please find a listing of databases found on Learn Alberta’s Online

Reference Centre (ORC) that directly support specific learner outcomes in

the grade two science and social studies curricula.

Formatting Overview for Amazing Animals of the World:

Curricular Topic

Specific Learner Outcome (SLO)

Amazing Animals of the World

Topic

o Subtopic

Article Title

Formatting Overview for BookFLIX:

Curricular Topic


BookFLIX

Theme (Animals and Nature, Earth and Space, etc.)

o Book Pairing

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Formatting Overview for PowerKnowledge Databases:

Curricular Topic


Name of the Database

Topic

o Subtopic

Article Title with Hyperlink

Article Sections

Formatting Overview for TrueFLIX:

Curricular Topic


TrueFLIX

eBook Title (alphabetized listing found in the Resources & Tools link

in the top right hand corner of the screen)

o Chapters in eBook if applicable

If you have any questions regarding this guide or if you would like a guide

for additional grades please contact Jamie Davis, ORC Coordinator at

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

Grade 2 Science

Topic A: Exploring Liquids

SLO: Recognize and describe characteristics of liquids.

PowerKnowledge Physical Science

Energy and Matter

o States of Matter

Liquids

TrueFLIX

Experiments with Solids, Liquids, and Gases

o Chapter: How Do Liquids Behave?

SLO: Demonstrate an understanding that liquid water can be changed to

other states.


Energy and Matter

o Liquids

Article Sections: Liquids and Cold, Liquids and Heat,

Evaporation, Condensation

TrueFLIX

Experiments with Solids, Liquids, and Gases

o Chapter: The States of Matter

The Properties of Matter


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SLO: Recognize human responsibilities for maintaining clean supplies of

water, and identify actions that are taken to ensure that water supplies are

safe.


Energy and Matter

o Liquids

Article Section: The Most Important Liquid

PowerKnowledge Earth Space Science

Water

o Oil Spills and Ocean Pollution

Article Sections: The Pollution you Can’t See, Wildlife

Worries, Pollution Problems for People, Fighting

Pollution, Doing Your Part

PowerKnowledge Life Science

Green Living

o Pollution

Article Sections: Acid Rain, What’s in our Water?,

People Fighting Pollution

o Saving Our Earth

Article Sections: Water Pollution

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Topic B: Boats and Buoyancy

SLO: Describe, classify and order materials on the basis of buoyancy.

Students who have achieved this expectation will distinguish between

materials that sink in water and those that float…The terms buoyancy and

density may be introduced but are not required as part of this learning

expectation.


Energy and Matter

o States of Matter

Liquids

Article Sections: Special Properties of Liquids,

Sink or Float

Force and Motion

o Motions in Our World

Boats

Article Sections: Let’s Talk About Boats, All About

Boats, Buoyant Boats, Fast Facts, Boats in Our

World

o Science Fair Projects and Experiments

Will it Float?

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Topic C: Magnetism

SLO: Identify where magnets are used in the environment and why they are

used.


Energy and Matter

o Electricity and Magnetism

All About Magnets

Article Sections: Magical Magnets, Everyday

Magnets, The Biggest magnet of All!,

Electromagnets, Using Magnetic Force, Magnets

Everywhere


The Biggest Magnet of All

SLO: Recognize that magnets attract materials with iron or steel in them.


Energy and Matter


All About Magnets

Article Section: Magnetic Fields, Using magnetic

Force

TrueFLIX

Experiments with Magnets

o Chapter: Playing with Your Food

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SLO: Recognize that magnets have polarity, demonstrate that poles may

either repel or attract each other, and state a rule when poles will repel or

attract each other.


Energy and Matter


All About Magnets

Article Section: Pushes and Pulls


That’s Magnetic

TrueFLIX

Experiments with Magnets

o Chapter: Magnets in the Making

Sections: Where Do Magnets Fit In?, Magnetic Poles,

Nature-Made Magnets, Our Mega Magnet

o Chapter: Magnets at Work

o Chapter: Electromagnets

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Topic D: Hot and Cold Temperatures

SLO: Describe temperature in relative terms, using expressions, such as

hotter than, colder than.


Temperature and Measurement

o Understanding Temperature

All About Heat

Article Section: Measuring Heat

SLO: Measure temperature in degrees Celsius.




Heat and Temperature with Graphic Organizers

Article Section: How Temperature is Measured

All About Heat

Article Section: Measuring Heat

o Measurement

All About the Metric System

Article Section: Metric Temperatures

Science Fair Projects and Experiments

o Make a Thermometer

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SLO: Describe how heating and cooling materials can often change them;

e.g., melting and freezing, cooking, burning.




All About Heat

Article Sections: Measuring Heat, The Science of

Heat, Convection, Radiation

Heat and Temperature With Graphic organizers

Article Section: The Effects of heat, What Causes

Changes in Heat and Temperature?

Energy and Matter

o All About Matter

Article Sections: States of Matter, Solids, Liquids,

Gases, How Does Matter Change from One State to

Another, Will All Matter Melt?

TrueFLIX

Experiments with Solids, Liquids, and States

o Chapter: The States of Matter

Section: The Properties of Matter

o Chapter: A Solid State


Section: Experiment #1: Changing Properties

SLO: Describe the role of insulation in keeping things hot or cold, and

identify places where some form of insulation is use; e.g. clothing,

refrigeration, coolers, homes.

SLO: Identify materials that insulate animals from the cold; e.g., wool, fur

and feathers; and identify materials that are used by humans for the same

purpose.



o Keeping Warm

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Topic E: Small Crawling and Flying Animals

SLO: Recognize that there are many different kinds of small crawling and

flying animals, and identify a range of examples that are found locally.

Amazing Animals of the World

Mammals

o Bats

Little Brown Bat

o Rodents

Artic Ground Squirrel

Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel

Guinea Pig

North American Porcupine

Red Squirrel

Birds

o Ducks, geese, Swans, Waterfoul

Canada Goose

Mallard

o Hummingbirds, swifts

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

o Owls

Barn Owl

Boreal Owl

Burrowing Owl

Great Gray owl

Great Horned Owl

Amphibians

o Frogs and Toads

American Toad

Wood Frog

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Arthropods

o Ants, Bees, Wasps

Honey Bee

o Butterflies, Moths

Common Wood Nymph

Giant Swallowtail Butterfly

Monarch Butterfly

Peppered Moth

Tortoiseshell Butterfly

Wooly Bear Caterpillar

o Crickets, Grasshoppers, Katydid, Locusts

Bush Cricket

Mormon Cricket

o Damselflies, Dragonflies

Mosaic Darner

o Earwigs

Earwigs

o Gnats, Mosquitos, True Flies

American Horsefly

Blowfly

Common Fruit Fly

House Fly

Mosquito

o True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Relatives

Bedbug

Common Backswimmer

Treehopper

Water Measurer

Water Strider

o Spiders

Barn Funnel Weaver

Common House Spider

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Other Invertebrates

o Earthworm

Earthworm (Nightcrawler)

o Land Snails and Slugs

Giant Garden Slug

o Pond Snails

Great Pond Snail

o Gordian Worms

Horsehair Worm

BookFLIX

Animals and Nature

o The Ant and the Grasshopper/Inside an Ant Colony

o Diary of a Fly/Flies are Fascinating

o Diary of a Spider/A Spiderling Grows Up

o Diary of a Worm/It Could Still be a Worm

o Hi Fly Guy/It’s a Good Thing There Are Insects

o Owen/Mice

o Why Mosquitos Buzz in People’s Ears/World of Insects:

Mosquitos

o Waiting for Wings/Butterflies

o Roberto the Insect Architect/World of Insects: Termites

Adventure

o Scaredy Squirrel/Squirrels


Animals

o Bugs and Insects

Spiders

Ants

Bees

Butterflies

Centipedes and Millipedes

Dragonflies

Flies and Maggots

Grasshoppers

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Ladybugs

Mosquitoes

Slugs

Snails

Wasps

Worms

o Reptiles and Amphibians

Frogs

Snakes

All About Reptiles and Amphibians

o Mammals

Bats

Prairie Dogs


o Animal Behavior

o Build a Bug Trap

o Spider Hunting

o Take a Microhike

SLO: Recognize that small animals, like humans have homes where they

meet their basic needs of air, food, water, shelter and space; and describe

any special characteristics that help the animals survive in its home.


Food Chains and Food Webs

o Backyard Habitats

Article Sections: What is a Backyard Habitat, All sorts of

Backyard Habitats, What Lives in a Backyard Habitat?,

A Chipmunk is Always Busy, So Many Birds!, What is

that Humming Sounds?, Bugs are Everywhere!, What

Grows in a Backyard Habitat?, Sweet Honeysuckle, A

Wildlife-Friendly Backyard

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Habitats and Ecosystems

o Animals and Their Habitats

Bats and Their Home

Cave Creatures

Forest Animals

Owls and Their Homes

Prairie Animals

Snakes and Their Homes

Wetland Animals

Survival and Adaptation

o Features for Survival

Beaks

Bugs: In Flight (Wings)

Camouflage

Cells

Feet

Skin and Hide

Tails

Teeth

Tongues

SLO: Identify animal’s role within the food chain. To meet this expectation,

students should be able to identify the animals as plant eaters, animal

eaters or decomposers and identify other animals that may use them as a

food source.


Food Chains and Food Webs

o Backyard Food Chains

Article Sections: Where are Food Chains?, A Nice place

to Live, Backyard Herbivores, Hunters in the Backyard,

The Soil is Alive!, Exploring the Backyard

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o Carnivores

Article Sections: Food Chains and Webs, Predators and

Prey, How Carnivores Hunt, Carnivores Come in All

Sizes, Reptile Carnivores, Carnivores that Fly, Mammal

Carnivores

o Decomposers

Article Sections: Food Chains and Webs, Energy and

Nutrients, Decomposers on the Forest Floor, The

Shredders, A New Beginning

o Herbivores

Article Sections: What Are Food Chains?, Herbivore

Insects in the Food Chain, Herbivore Birds


o Bug-Eat-Bug World

SLO: Identify and give examples of ways that small animals avoid predators,

including camouflage, taking cover in burros, use of keen senses and flight.


Survival and Adaptation

o Features for Survival

Beaks

Bugs: In Flight (Wings)

Camouflage

Cells

Feet

Skin and Hide

Tails

Teeth

Tongues
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