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Grade 2

• Strand 1

  • 2.1.A
  • 2.1.B
  • 2.1.C
  • 2.1.D
  • 2.1.E

• Strand 2

  • 2.2.A
  • 2.2.A.i
  • 2.2.A.ii
  • 2.2.A.iii
  • 2.2.A.iv
  • 2.2.B
  • 2.2.B.i
  • 2.2.B.ii
  • 2.2.B.iii
  • 2.2.B.iv
  • 2.2.B.v
  • 2.2.B.vi
  • 2.2.B.vii
  • 2.2.C
  • 2.2.C.i
  • 2.2.C.ii
  • 2.2.C.iii
  • 2.2.C.iv
  • 2.2.C.v
  • 2.2.C.vi
  • 2.2.D
  • 2.2.E

• Strand 3

  • 2.3.A
  • 2.3.B
  • 2.3.C
  • 2.3.D

• Strand 4

  • 2.4

• Strand 5

  • 2.5

• Strand 6

  • 2.6.A
  • 2.6.B
  • 2.6.C
  • 2.6.D
  • 2.6.E
  • 2.6.F
  • 2.6.G
  • 2.6.H
  • 2.6.I

• Strand 7

  • 2.7.A
  • 2.7.B
  • 2.7.C
  • 2.7.D
  • 2.7.E
  • 2.7.F

• Strand 8

  • 2.8.A
  • 2.8.B
  • 2.8.C
  • 2.8.D

• Strand 9

  • 2.9.A
  • 2.9.B
  • 2.9.C
  • 2.9.D
  • 2.9.D.i
  • 2.9.D.ii
  • 2.9.D.iii
  • 2.9.E
  • 2.9.E.i
  • 2.9.E.ii
  • 2.9.F

• Strand 10

  • 2.10.A
  • 2.10.B
  • 2.10.C
  • 2.10.D
  • 2.10.E
  • 2.10.F

• Strand 11

  • 2.11.A
  • 2.11.B
  • 2.11.B.i
  • 2.11.B.ii
  • 2.11.C
  • 2.11.D
  • 2.11.D.i
  • 2.11.D.ii
  • 2.11.D.iii
  • 2.11.D.iv
  • 2.11.D.v
  • 2.11.D.vi
  • 2.11.D.vii
  • 2.11.D.viii
  • 2.11.D.ix
  • 2.11.D.x
  • 2.11.D.xi
  • 2.11.E

• Strand 12

  • 2.12.A
  • 2.12.B
  • 2.12.C

• Strand 13

  • 2.13.A
  • 2.13.B
  • 2.13.C
  • 2.13.D
  • 2.13.E
  • 2.13.F
  • 2.13.G

TEKS ELA Standard: 2.1.B

follow, restate, and give oral instructions that involve a short, related sequence of actions

Drawing A 3D Staircase

This optical illusion looks like a 3D staircase, but it’s all drawn on a plain piece of paper.

Path Cipher (Codes Part 4)

Now let’s try the Path Cipher – a cipher that mixes things up even more than Zig Zag did.

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8

Squiggles Introduction

What do you see in this squiggle?

Gr 1-3

Squiggles Collection 1

Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8

Word Pyramid: D to ASIDE

One letter. Add another. And another. How tall can you build the pyramid before you run out of words?

Gr 1-5

Back to School: Rewriting The Beatles’ “Help!”

Can your students come up with a one-syllable word to sum up their time away from school? And then rewrite The Beatles’ song Help!?

Gr 1-8

Drawing An Impossible Triangle

Here’s how you can draw The Penrose Triangle, an example of an impossible shape.

Gr 1-2

Drawing Knots, Level 1

How to draw a simple version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!

Gr 1-2

Word Pyramid: I to LIONS

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Gr 1-5

Sets of Idioms Related to Body Parts

Five sets of five idioms, all related to body parts!

Gr 1-8

Looping Grid Art

Pick a few numbers, draw some corresponding lines on grid paper, and you’ll end up with some interesting, looping math-y art!

Gr 1-8

Cram

Try this a simple (but surprisingly strategic) grid-filling game!

Gr 1-8

Word Ladder: Fast to Race (4 step)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Gr 1-8

Art Lesson: Two-Point Perspective

Let’s get students’ art really popping with two-point perspective!

Gr 1-8

An Escher-Style Tessellation Project

Create a piece of repeating art in the style of MC Escher!

Gr 1-8

Game: Snakes

In this grid-based strategy game, who will be the last to add to the snake?

Gr 3-8

Math Game: Heaps

Try this a simple (but surprisingly strategic) subtraction game!

Gr 1-6

Game: Gomoku

Want to take Tic-Tac-Toe to the next level!? Imagine a 15×15 board. You must get five-in-a-row. You cannot get six-in-a-row. That’s Gomoku!

Gr 1-8

Chomp

Chomp away at your opponent in this grid-based strategy game.

Gr 1-8

Sprouts

Learn how to play the abstract, paper-and-pencil game Sprouts.

Gr 1-8

Depth and Complexity: 🚦 Rules

Is there a consequence for not doing something? You may have found a rule!

Gr 1-8