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A. Systems

By the end of 2nd grade, students should know that:
  1. Most things are made of parts.

  2. Something may not work if some of its parts are missing.

  3. When parts are put together, they can do things that they couldn't do by themselves.




B. Models

By the end of 2nd grade, students should know that:
  1. Many of the toys children play with are like real things only in some ways.

  2. A model of something is different from the real thing but can be used to learn something about the real thing.

  3. One way to describe something is to say how it is like something else.




C. Constancy and Change

By the end of 2nd grade, students should know that:
  1. Things change in some ways and stay the same in some ways.

  2. People can keep track of some things, seeing where they come from and where they go.

  3. Things can change in different ways, such as in size, weight, color, and movement.

  4. Some changes are so slow or so fast that they are hard to see.




D. Scale

By the end of 2nd grade, students should know that:
  1. Things in nature and things people make have very different sizes, weights, ages, and speeds.