Grade 2 Science and Technology

The 2022 Ontario Grade 2 Science and Technology course has five strands: STEM Skills and Connections, Life Systems, Matter and Energy, Structures and Mechanisms, and Earth and Space Systems. The museum maps five lessons, one in each strand.

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Strand A: STEM Skills and Connections

How science and technology are used, who has contributed to them, and how investigations and coding are done (expectations A1, A2, A3).

  1. Who has added to science and technology? How science and technology join other subjects on real problems, and what various communities have contributed (A3.2, A3.3). Scholar × 3

Strand B: Life Systems

How animals affect society and the environment, and how animals grow, change and differ (expectations B1, B2).

  1. How do animals move and differ? Comparing the bodies of different animals and describing how they walk, fly, swim or creep (B2.1, B2.2). Object

Strand C: Matter and Energy

The properties and physical changes of liquids and solids, and the impact of their uses (expectations C1, C2).

  1. Snow and clay: water in its forms and materials How a week of snow changed a city's streets, and why some materials soak up water while others do not (C1.2, C2.6). StoryObject

Strand D: Structures and Mechanisms

How things move, and how simple machines help move objects and affect society and the environment (expectations D1, D2).

  1. Machines that move water Looking at the ways parts of a machine move, and at a lever and a wheel and axle at work in daily life (D2.1, D2.3, D2.4). Invention × 2

Strand E: Earth and Space Systems

The properties of air and water, how living things depend on them, and how human actions affect their quality (expectations E1, E2).

  1. Where does water come from? Wells, pools, springs, rain and tunnels as sources of water that people built ways to reach (E2.2). PlaceInvention × 2

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