2nd Grade · Week 1 of 36 · Science
Habitats and shelter
1. Hook
- Tap Read the lesson aloud (or a grown-up reads).
- Look at the pictures. Follow the numbered steps.
- Do the tap-and-try lab on this page. Do not skip it.
- Fill the short answers with a grown-up nearby.
- Do the quiz. Then teach it back in your own words.
You are at home on a computer or tablet. Everything you need is on this page.
A polar bear in the desert, a camel in the Arctic: why would both be in trouble?
Then: lab → guided → quiz → teach it back. The lab is the lesson, not a decoration.
2. Teach
Today we learn: Habitats and shelter.
Standards alignment: NGSS 2-LS (domain-level; works with any state’s standards)
STEM this week is Habitats and shelter: look, write a fact, label a guess, then test one change.
- A habitat provides food, water, shelter, and space.
- Land habitats include forest, desert, grassland, and tundra. Water habitats include ocean, pond, and river.
- Animals have body parts and behaviors that fit their habitat.
In the Arctic tundra, polar bears have thick fur and fat. In the desert, camels store fat in humps and can go days without water.
Shelters can be dens, nests, burrows, hollow trees, or coral reefs.
- Animal: beaver.
- Habitat: pond or stream.
- Food: bark and plants.
- Shelter: a lodge of sticks and mud.
- Fits its habitat!
Make a habitat poster with 4 animals that live there and their shelters.
Thinking any animal can live anywhere.
Wildlife refuges protect habitats.
No classroom teacher today — this page is the lesson. A grown-up sits nearby. Model once, wait 10–20 seconds, then let the child try.
Try it — this is the game
Tap, move, listen. This is the experiment. Then we quiz what you just did.
Your work — type it here
Do the lab (tap Look, Fact, Guess, Test). Then type what you saw, in kid words.
3. Guided practice
Try these with me — type the missing word, then check.
Reveal the thinking
Match needs to habitat; look for helpful body parts.
4. Independent practice
Work the set. Check when finished — this is practice (mastery quiz is next).
5. Mastery check
Scored quiz — results save to your gradebook.
The lab is on this page
Do the experiment here. Change one thing. Read what happened. We do not send you to an outside simulation site. Today: Habitats and shelter.
A grown-up sits nearby. This page is the teacher. A grown-up sits nearby. This page is the teacher.
6. Reflection / teach-back
Teach-back: Explain Habitats and shelter in your own words. Give one example and name the usual mistake.