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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: 2.7.E

interact with sources in meaningful ways such as illustrating or writing

Two Animals Switch Biomes

What if a capybara and a kangaroo rat switched homes? Would their adaptations be helpful at all?

Student Introductions With Depth, Complexity, and Frames: Level Two

Once students know the prompts of Depth and Complexity, let’s take them much higher up Bloom’s Taxonomy.

How to Reset Your Brain When You’re Flooded

Allison Edwards explains how changing your senses can reset your brain.

Compare and Create New Year’s Traditions

Hey! Our New Year traditions have a lot in common.

A Character’s Playlist

What playlist of songs best goes with a character’s change over time?

Squiggles Collection 3

Students start with the same squiggle and then draw on it, turning it into whatever they think it might be.

Squiggles Introduction

What do you see in this squiggle?

Squiggles Collection 2

Students start with the same squiggle and then draw on it, turning it into whatever they think it might be.

Create A Civ: Capital City

How are capital cities a combination of natural and human-designed features?

Idiom Tasks

Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.

Not Like The Others: Penguins

Students will determine which type of penguin is not like the others.

Drawing Knots, Level 3

How to draw the final version of the twisty Henri Matisse knot!

Drawing Knots, Level 2

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

Writing About Art: Twilight in the Wilderness

Students will write about a beautiful painting from Frederic Edwin Church.

Create A Civilization: Currency

What type of currency will your civilization use? What symbols will be on it? Why are they significant?

Think Like A Historian

Here’s how effects be causes and causes can be effects!

Writing About Art: The Scream

Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.

Inferring With Art: A Man

What’s going on in this painting? Who is that guy? What’s his job? And where’s his other boot?

Inferring With Art: A Couple

What’s going on in this room? There are shoes everywhere! Are those… oranges? Let’s make some inferences!

Self Portraits: Text Art

What if a students’ self-portrait was made of words that describe the student!?

Art Lesson: One-Point Perspective

Let’s give our students an art history lesson while teaching them how to enhance their drawings using one-point perspective.

Art Lesson: Two-Point Perspective

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

An Escher-Style Tessellation Project

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

Self Portraits Part One: Line Drawings

Anyone, yes anyone, can create a (somewhat) realistic self-portrait using these steps. Anyone!

Self Portraits: Pointillism

Turn your students into a bunch of Monets with q-tips and some tempera paint.

Holiday vs Holiday (from a Mascot’s Perspective)

Want something to do during the holiday season that is both fun and involves thinking? Get students writing about what a snowman would think about Halloween or what a ghost would think about Thanksgiving.

Characters Dressed as Other Characters for Halloween

What if one character dressed up as another for Halloween? Would the Cat in the Hat pick Captain Jack Sparrow, because they’re both chaotic yet good-natured people? Would Elsa dress up as The Ice King since they are both lonely?

How Renewable Is That Resource?

Which resource is more renewable? And which is easier to find?

Not Like The Others: Planets

Which of these planets is not like others? Well, it sure looks simple at first. But each option could be the one that doesn’t fit in.

Sets of Idioms

An ongoing series to expose students to five related idioms.

Col – A Strategy Game

The first person to run out of regions loses in this strategy game.

Game: Notakto

What if you only played Tic-Tac-Toe with Xs and you could play on multiple boards?

Dots and Boxes

Who can make the most boxes from dots in this strategy game?

Create A Civilization: Calendars

Why 12 months? Why 30ish days? Why 7 days in a week? Your civilization could organize a year in any way you want!

Improving Presentations 1: Watching The Greats

Get better at giving presentations by studying the greats!

Academic Love Letters

What if Kylo Ren wrote a love letter to Abe Lincoln or the Sahara Desert wrote one to the Moon?

Create A Civilization: The River

The Nile, the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Seine, the Thames, and now… your river!

Using Creativity Tools To Develop A Learning Exploration: Step Three

In this video, Kathryn Haydon explains how she helped her students form activities to pursue their independent study.

Depth and Complexity: 👓 Multiple Perspectives

In this video, we introduce the 👓 Multiple Perspectives prompt of Depth and Complexity.

Creating A Realistic Flower and Pollinator

Your students will create a new flower, designed to attract a specific pollinator.

Historic Social Media

How would people from history have interacted online? Students will develop a conversation online between people involved in the same event from history.

Drawing Natural Curves Like Andy Goldsworthy

Teach students to draw, and then build on, natural curves using the style of artist Andy Goldsworthy.

How to Play Go

Ready to learn a 2,500-year-old Chinese board game? Let’s… Go!

Introduce Symbolism with Pixel Art

Create a pixelated icon that represents the essence of a character!

An App For A Historical Figure

What kind of an app could have helped Abe Lincoln accomplish his goals?

Reduce Anxiety: Brain Plate (Tool 3)

Take away some anxiety with the tool Brain Plate.

Building Brush Bots and Art Bots

What if we turned a tooth brush into a robot… that could do art?

Teaching Empathy With Faberge Eggs

Terri Eicholz explains how she builds empathy in her students using the story of the Faberge Eggs.

Engineering: Build A Bridge

Using real bridges as their starting point, students will construct bridges out of straws and paperclips.