Engage your class in a selection of grade-specific, standards-based activities! All activities and lessons were carefully crafted with an eye towards Next Generation Science Standards for Second Grade students.
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Already completed a Virtual Field Trip?
Take your second grade scientists on a virtual field trip to compare the biodiversity of life in different habitats at the California Science Center. Students will investigate what plants need to grow and how animals play an important role in seed dispersal and pollination as they design their own models.
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Invite educators from the California Science Center to visit your classroom virtually to explore seeds and how they travel.
Reservations for the 2022-23 school year will be available soon. Please call 213-744-2019 beginning September 22 to reserve your Live Virtual Program!
Join our educators to discover the diversity that exists and its importance in various habitats at the California Science Center, such as the Rose Garden and the Kelp Tank.
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Students will play a board game to model the role that animals play in seed dispersal. Students will investigate how a squirrel and a pigeon help to spread a variety of seeds throughout their schoolyard in order to consider how diverse plants and animals within a habitat support each other’s growth and survival.
Second graders, are you ready for an out-of-this-world virtual field trip? Check out our space collection at the California Science Center virtually as we learn about practices that go into designing objects meant for space exploration.
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Our educators will take your class on a virtual field trip and participate in hands-on investigations that will leave you thinking about what goes into the making of a spacecraft.
Reservations for the 2022-23 school year will be available soon. Please call 213-744-2019 beginning September 22 to reserve your Live Virtual Program!
Join our educators in testing and learning about different properties of materials as they design a space suit. You might be inspired to do some testing of your own, too!
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Students will collect data about various materials in order to choose which will make the best astronaut’s glove.
