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Grade 2 Science PA Core Standards

211 standards - PA Core

These are the official Grade 2 Science PA Core — the exact codes and student expectations grade 2 teachers are required to teach and PSSA assesses. Browse every standard below, then generate a print-ready, PA Core-aligned worksheet, lesson plan, exit ticket, or assessment for any of them in seconds.

Standards

3.1

Life Science

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3.1.2.A

Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow.

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3.1.2.B

Develop a simple model that mimics the function of an animal in dispersing seeds or pollinating plants.

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3.1.2.C

Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.

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3.1.2.na1

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3.1.2.na10

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3.1.2.na11

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3.1.2.na12

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3.1.2.na2

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3.1.2.na3

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3.1.2.na4

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3.1.2.na5

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3.1.2.na6

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3.1.2.na7

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3.1.2.na8

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3.1.2.na9

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3.2

Physical Science

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3.2.2.A

Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.

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3.2.2.B

Analyze data obtained from testing different materials to determine which materials have the properties that are best suited for an intended purpose.

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3.2.2.C

Make observations to construct an evidence-based account of how an object made of a small set of pieces can be disassembled and made into a new object.

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3.2.2.D

Construct an argument with evidence that some changes caused by heating or cooling can be reversed and some cannot.

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3.2.2.na1

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3.2.2.na10

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3.2.2.na2

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3.2.2.na3

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3.2.2.na4

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3.2.2.na5

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3.2.2.na6

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3.2.2.na7

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3.2.2.na8

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3.2.2.na9

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3.3

Earth and Space Science

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3.3.2.A

Use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly.

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3.3.2.B

Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land.

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3.3.2.C

Develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in an area.

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3.3.2.D

Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid.

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3.3.2.na1

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3.3.2.na2

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3.3.2.na3

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3.3.2.na4

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3.3.2.na5

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3.3.2.na6

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3.3.2.na7

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3.4

Environmental Literacy & Sustainability

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3.4.K-2.A

Categorize ways people harvest, redistribute, and use natural resources.

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3.4.K-2.B

Examine how people from different cultures and communities, including one's own, interact and express their beliefs about nature.

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3.4.K-2.C

Explain ways that places differ in their physical characteristics, their meaning, and their value and/or importance.

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3.4.K-2.D

Plan and carry out an investigation to address an issue in the local environment and community.

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3.4.K-2.na1

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3.4.K-2.na2

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3.4.K-2.na3

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3.4.K-2.na4

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3.4.K-2.na5

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3.5

Technology & Engineering

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3.5.K-2.A

Identify and use everyday symbols.

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3.5.K-2.AA

Demonstrate that creating can be done by anyone.

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3.5.K-2.B

Describe qualities of everyday products.

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3.5.K-2.BB

Compare the natural world and human-made world.

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3.5.K-2.C

Explain ways that technology helps with everyday tasks.

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3.5.K-2.CC

Discuss the roles of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others who work with technology.

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3.5.K-2.D

Select ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle resources in daily life.

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3.5.K-2.DD

Collaborate effectively as a member of a team.

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3.5.K-2.E

Illustrate helpful and harmful effects of technology.

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3.5.K-2.F

Investigate the use of technologies in the home and community.

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3.5.K-2.G

Explain the tools and techniques that people use to help them do things.

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3.5.K-2.H

Explain the needs and wants of individuals and societies.

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3.5.K-2.I

Compare simple technologies to evaluate their impacts.

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3.5.K-2.J

Design new technologies that could improve their daily lives.

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3.5.K-2.K

Safely use tools to complete tasks.

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3.5.K-2.L

Explore how technologies are developed to meet individual and societal needs and wants.

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3.5.K-2.M

Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.

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3.5.K-2.N

Analyze how things work.

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3.5.K-2.O

Illustrate that there are different solutions to a design and that none are perfect.

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3.5.K-2.P

Discuss that all designs have different characteristics that can be described.

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3.5.K-2.Q

Apply skills necessary for making in design.

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3.5.K-2.R

Draw connections between technology and human experience

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3.5.K-2.S

Apply design concepts, principles, and processes through play and exploration

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3.5.K-2.T

Demonstrate that designs have requirements.

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3.5.K-2.U

Explain that design is a response to wants and needs

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3.5.K-2.V

Explain that materials are selected for use because they possess desirable properties and characteristics.

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3.5.K-2.W

Apply concepts and skills from technology and engineering activities that reinforce concepts and skills across multiple areas.

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3.5.K-2.X

Develop a plan in order to complete a task.

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3.5.K-2.Y

Discuss how the way people live and work has changed throughout history because of technology.

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3.5.K-2.Z

Illustrate how systems have parts or components that work together to accomplish a goal.

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EEP.2.1

Use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly

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ELA.K2.1

Examine how people from different cultures and communities, including one's own, interact and express their beliefs about nature.

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ELA.K2.2

Categorize ways people harvest, re-distribute, and use natural resources.

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ELE.K2.1

Explain ways that places differ in their physical characteristics, their meaning, and their value and/or importance.

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ELE.K2.2

Plan and carry out an investigation to address an issue in their local environment and community.

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ESS.2.1

Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land.

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ESS.2.2

Develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in an area.

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ESS.2.3

Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid.

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N-10845

Forces and Motion

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N-109NN

Inheritance of Traits

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N-130Z3

Core Concepts of Technology and Engineering

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N-137GV

Earth's Systems

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N-14LX1

Structure and Properties of Matter

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N-153SP

Information Technologies and Instrumentation

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N-16GZN

Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems

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N-16ONK

Natural Hazards

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N-189F4

Earth and the Solar System

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N-18OCS

Integration of Knowledge, Technologies, and Practices

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N-18Y2L

Growth and Development of Organisms

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N-197Z5

Energy in Chemical Processes and Everyday Life

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N-19U7C

Electromagnetic Radiation

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N-1DC35

Technology and Engineering

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N-1GHMQ

The Universe and Its Stars

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N-1GKHN

Earth Materials and Systems

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N-1GPZN

Chemical Reactions

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N-1IG6Y

The History of Planet Earth

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N-1JA9B

Investigating Environmental Issues

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N-1L276

Physical Science

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N-1LG0V

Cycles of Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems

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N-1MFX5

Impacts of Technology

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N-1MJ0W

Environmental Experiences

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N-1PIO0

Environmental Literacy Skills

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N-1R3VC

Environmental Sustainability

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N-1SBOC

Natural Selection

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N-1SDU7

Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer

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N-1T1CX

Applying, Maintaining, and Assessing Technological Products and Systems

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N-1TJX3

Definitions of Energy

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N-1TX7R

Design in Technology and Engineering Education

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N-1W5JC

Nuclear Processes

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N-1WJQ8

The Roles of Water in Earth's Surface Processes

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N-1XG68

Agricultural and Environmental Systems and Resources

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N-1XNJC

Wave Properties

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N-1XXXV

Watersheds and Wetlands

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N-2CX8W

Evaluating Solutions

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N-2TG2Z

Biodiversity and Humans

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N-4RW41

Environment and Society

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N-501SI

Biogeology

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N-5D518

Environmental Literacy and Sustainability

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N-5NWZ6

Variation of Traits

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N-5WM6C

Structure and Function

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N-619IZ

Environmental Justice

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N-73XRG

Earth's Place in the Universe

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N-85TKD

Relationship Between Energy and Forces

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N-9JKDJ

Nature and Characteristics of Technology and Engineering

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N-ATSDQ

Earth and Space Sciences

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N-B6TYN

Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions

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N-BK487

Types of Interactions

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N-C73WN

Human Impact on Earth Systems

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N-DHA8O

Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience

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N-DJ9LB

Information Processing

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Weather and Climate

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N-HTGB8

Agricultural Systems

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N-HTY0J

Applying, Maintaining, and Assessing Technological Products and Systems

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N-IQCTU

Adaptation

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N-PEY1F

Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity

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N-RYQA5

Integration of Knowledge, Technologies, and Practices

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N-S6L5Q

Influence of Society on Technological Development

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N-TPWCH

Nature and Characteristics of Technology and Engineering

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N-URMOW

History of Technology

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N-VKOC0

Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms

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N-VRHKU

Design and Design Thinking in Technology and Engineering Education

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N-VT47S

Environmental Stewardship

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N-WT33Z

Natural Resources

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N-XCFP8

Social Interactions and Group Behavior

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TEA.K2.1

Analyze how things work.

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TEA.K2.2

Identify and use everyday symbols.

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TEA.K2.3

Describe qualities of everyday products.

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TEC.K2.1

Illustrate how systems have parts or components that work together to accomplish a goal.

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TEC.K2.2

Safely use tools to complete tasks.

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TEC.K2.3

Explain that materials are selected for use because they possess desirable properties and characteristics.

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TEC.K2.4

Develop a plan in order to complete a task.

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TEC.K2.5

Collaborate effectively as a member of a team.

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TED.K2.1

Apply design concepts, principles, and processes through play and exploration.

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TED.K2.2

Demonstrate that designs have requirements.

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TED.K2.3

Explain that design is a response to wants and needs.

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TED.K2.4

Discuss that all designs have different characteristics that can be described.

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TED.K2.5

Illustrate that there are different solutions to a design and that none are perfect.

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TED.K2.6

Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.

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TED.K2.7

Apply skills necessary for making in design.

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TEH.K2.1

Discuss how the way people live and work has changed throughout history because of technology.

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TEI.K2.1

Explain ways that technology helps with everyday tasks.

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TEI.K2.2

Illustrate helpful and harmful effects of technology.

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TEI.K2.3

Compare simple technologies to evaluate their impacts.

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TEI.K2.4

Select ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle resources in daily life.

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TEI.K2.5

Design new technologies that could improve their daily lives.

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TEK.K2.1

Apply concepts and skills from technology and engineering activities that reinforce concepts and skills across multiple content areas.

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TEK.K2.2

Draw connections between technology and human experiences.

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TEN.K2.1

Compare the natural world and human-made world.

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TEN.K2.2

Explain the tools and techniques that people use to help them do things.

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TEN.K2.3

Demonstrate that creating can be done by anyone.

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TEN.K2.4

Discuss the roles of scientists, engineers, technologists and others who work with technology.

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TES.K2.1

Explain the needs and wants of individuals and societies.

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TES.K2.2

Explore how technologies are developed to meet individual and societal needs and wants.

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TES.K2.3

Investigate the use of technologies in the home and community.

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11.1.K-2.A

Identify the production steps that food travels from the farm to the consumer.

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11.1.K-2.B

Describe personal hygiene techniques in food handling.

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11.1.K-2.C

Explain the importance of eating a varied diet in maintaining health.

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11.1.K-2.E

Name and classify culinary measurement tools.

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11.1.K-2.F

Name basic kitchen measuring tools and cooking equipment.

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11.1.K-2.G

Classify foods according to the senses.

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11.1.K-2.H

Classify foods by food group within the current USDA dietary guidelines.

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11.1.K-2.J

Identify career choices that relate to food.

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11.2.K-2.A

Identify waste and practice ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

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11.2.K-2.B

Identify individual and family resources and responsibilities.

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11.2.K-2.E

Identify resources used for clothing.

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11.2.K-2.F

Identify how to care for clothing.

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11.3.K-2.A

Explain daily activities that fulfill family functions in meeting responsibilities.

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11.3.K-2.C

Identify how to resolve conflict using interpersonal communication skills.

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11.3.K-2.D

Identify similarities and differences between self and others.

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11.4.K-2.F

Identify community resources and services.

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11.5.K-2.A

Describe self as consumer.

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N-1H6QS

Education and Early Childhood Development

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N-1XA8F

Career, Community, and Family Connections

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N-1Y9G5

Personal Finance and Consumer Skills

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N-525B7

Resource Management

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N-8IOTJ

Food Science and Nutrition

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N-HWVQC

Human Development, Family, and Relationships

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