Standards
Of the 11 standards explicitly taught and assessed in Unit 1, most of them are from this domain.
What is reading informational text?
Students will respond to these types of questions on the Unit 1 Assessment.
What are selected response and short answer questions?
This is the anchor text for Unit 1.
What is Seed to Plant (National Geographic)?
The Mystery Bag is a part of this lesson.
What is lesson 1?
True or false? Native bees occur on every continent.
What is false? Native bees do not occur in Antarctica.
RI.2.1 is explicitly taught and assessed in Unit 1. Complete the standard: ___ and ___ such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of ___ ___ in a text.
What is: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text?
The Unit 1 Assessment centers on standards in these 2 domains.
What are reading informational text and language?
Finish the Guiding Question: How do we get...
What are the fruits, flowers, and vegetables that we enjoy?
This lesson includes a Language Dive into the text Plant Secrets.
What is lesson 8?
Bees pollinate about this percentage of the food we eat in the United States.
What is 75%?
In lesson 2, this is the daily learning target that aligns with the speaking and listening standards taught.
In advance of the Unit 1 Assessment, you can use this tool to gather data on students' reading comprehension.
What is the Reading Informational Checklist?
What Big Idea do students learn about scientists in Unit 1?
What is that scientists use models to explain an idea or describe relationships?
How many Unit 1 lessons include a Volley for Vocabulary?
What are 3 (lessons 8-10)?
Name a larger animal that is a pollinator.
What are mice, bats, lizards and lemurs?
In lesson 4, you can collect students' Plants and Pollinators research notebook to measure progress towards these 3 standards.
What are RI.2.5, RI.2.7, and W.2.7?
What students read, and how they read it, on the Unit 1 Assessment.
What are "What Do Plants Need?" from Seed to Plant (National Geographic) and independently?
In Unit 1, students are doing this: BBKAP.
What is building background knowledge about plants?
This is the number of anchor charts that you will need to reference in lesson 8.
What is 7?
Most species of bees do not do this.
What is sting?
The lesson 10 science talk centers on standards SL.2.1 and SL.2.3. Provide a description of one of these standards.
What is "participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups," OR, "ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue?"
These are the two products students will create as part of the Module 3 Performance Task.
What are a poster and an oral presentation about a specific insect pollinator and plant?
This is the big idea we want student to understand about readers in Unit 1.
What is readers use multiple strategies to learn more about a topic from informational texts?
Students will engage in this challenge as part of lesson 9.
What is a seed dispersal challenge?
Bees feed on both ___ and ___.
What are nectar and pollen?