User Guide
ORC CURRICULUM MAP Grade 2 Science
Topics Included: Exploring Liquids, Boats and Buoyancy, Magnetism, Hot and Cold
Temperatures, Small Crawling and Flying Animals
Resources Included: Amazing Animals of the World, BookFLIX, PowerKnowledge Earth and
Space Science, PowerKnowledge Life Science, PowerKnowledge Physical Science, and TrueFLIX
Last Edited: April 10, 2016
Jamie Davis, ORC Coordinator [email protected]
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Background and Access Information
Learn Alberta’s Online Reference Centre is a $1.7 million collection of
authoritative curricular aligned resources that are licensed on behalf of all
students, staff, parents and public librarians learning/teaching/supporting
the Alberta curriculum.
To Access the Online Reference Centre:
1. Go to LearnAlberta.ca
2. Select English or French
3. Click on “Online Reference Centre” in the tab along the top of the screen
4. In school while on a school device, users do not need to enter a
username of password. Users are able to enter any database or website
instantly.
5. Access from a person device in school or remotely from outside of the
school will require the user to enter a username/password once to unlock
all of the resources.
6. Please share your district’s ORC username/password with your students,
parents of your students, student teachers and fellow staff members.
Please do not share the username and password information on an open
website (a website that does not require the user to login).
file:///C:/Users/jamie%20davis/AppData/Local/Temp/learnalberta.ca
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How to Use This Guide
Attached please find a listing of databases found on Learn Alberta’s Online
Reference Centre (ORC) that directly support specific learner outcomes in
the grade two science and social studies curricula.
Formatting Overview for Amazing Animals of the World:
Curricular Topic
Specific Learner Outcome (SLO)
Amazing Animals of the World
Topic
o Subtopic
Article Title
Formatting Overview for BookFLIX:
Curricular Topic
Specific Learner Outcome (SLO)
BookFLIX
Theme (Animals and Nature, Earth and Space, etc.)
o Book Pairing
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Formatting Overview for PowerKnowledge Databases:
Curricular Topic
Specific Learner Outcome (SLO)
Name of the Database
Topic
o Subtopic
Article Title with Hyperlink
Article Sections
Formatting Overview for TrueFLIX:
Curricular Topic
Specific Learner Outcome (SLO)
TrueFLIX
eBook Title (alphabetized listing found in the Resources & Tools link
in the top right hand corner of the screen)
o Chapters in eBook if applicable
If you have any questions regarding this guide or if you would like a guide
for additional grades please contact Jamie Davis, ORC Coordinator at
mailto:[email protected]
Grade 2 Science
Topic A: Exploring Liquids
SLO: Recognize and describe characteristics of liquids.
PowerKnowledge Physical Science
Energy and Matter
o States of Matter
Liquids
TrueFLIX
Experiments with Solids, Liquids, and Gases
o Chapter: How Do Liquids Behave?
SLO: Demonstrate an understanding that liquid water can be changed to
other states.
PowerKnowledge Physical Science
Energy and Matter
o Liquids
Article Sections: Liquids and Cold, Liquids and Heat,
Evaporation, Condensation
TrueFLIX
Experiments with Solids, Liquids, and Gases
o Chapter: The States of Matter
The Properties of Matter
o Chapter: How Do Liquids Behave?
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SLO: Recognize human responsibilities for maintaining clean supplies of
water, and identify actions that are taken to ensure that water supplies are
safe.
PowerKnowledge Physical Science
Energy and Matter
o Liquids
Article Section: The Most Important Liquid
PowerKnowledge Earth Space Science
Water
o Oil Spills and Ocean Pollution
Article Sections: The Pollution you Can’t See, Wildlife
Worries, Pollution Problems for People, Fighting
Pollution, Doing Your Part
PowerKnowledge Life Science
Green Living
o Pollution
Article Sections: Acid Rain, What’s in our Water?,
People Fighting Pollution
o Saving Our Earth
Article Sections: Water Pollution
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Topic B: Boats and Buoyancy
SLO: Describe, classify and order materials on the basis of buoyancy.
Students who have achieved this expectation will distinguish between
materials that sink in water and those that float…The terms buoyancy and
density may be introduced but are not required as part of this learning
expectation.
PowerKnowledge Physical Science
Energy and Matter
o States of Matter
Liquids
Article Sections: Special Properties of Liquids,
Sink or Float
Force and Motion
o Motions in Our World
Boats
Article Sections: Let’s Talk About Boats, All About
Boats, Buoyant Boats, Fast Facts, Boats in Our
World
o Science Fair Projects and Experiments
Will it Float?
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Topic C: Magnetism
SLO: Identify where magnets are used in the environment and why they are
used.
PowerKnowledge Physical Science
Energy and Matter
o Electricity and Magnetism
All About Magnets
Article Sections: Magical Magnets, Everyday
Magnets, The Biggest magnet of All!,
Electromagnets, Using Magnetic Force, Magnets
Everywhere
o Science Fair Projects and Experiments
The Biggest Magnet of All
SLO: Recognize that magnets attract materials with iron or steel in them.
PowerKnowledge Physical Science
Energy and Matter
o Electricity and Magnetism
All About Magnets
Article Section: Magnetic Fields, Using magnetic
Force
TrueFLIX
Experiments with Magnets
o Chapter: Playing with Your Food
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SLO: Recognize that magnets have polarity, demonstrate that poles may
either repel or attract each other, and state a rule when poles will repel or
attract each other.
PowerKnowledge Physical Science
Energy and Matter
o Electricity and Magnetism
All About Magnets
Article Section: Pushes and Pulls
o Science Fair Projects and Experiments
That’s Magnetic
TrueFLIX
Experiments with Magnets
o Chapter: Magnets in the Making
Sections: Where Do Magnets Fit In?, Magnetic Poles,
Nature-Made Magnets, Our Mega Magnet
o Chapter: Magnets at Work
o Chapter: Electromagnets
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Topic D: Hot and Cold Temperatures
SLO: Describe temperature in relative terms, using expressions, such as
hotter than, colder than.
PowerKnowledge Physical Science
Temperature and Measurement
o Understanding Temperature
All About Heat
Article Section: Measuring Heat
SLO: Measure temperature in degrees Celsius.
PowerKnowledge Physical Science
Temperature and Measurement
o Understanding Temperature
Heat and Temperature with Graphic Organizers
Article Section: How Temperature is Measured
All About Heat
Article Section: Measuring Heat
o Measurement
All About the Metric System
Article Section: Metric Temperatures
Science Fair Projects and Experiments
o Make a Thermometer
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SLO: Describe how heating and cooling materials can often change them;
e.g., melting and freezing, cooking, burning.
PowerKnowledge Physical Science
Temperature and Measurement
o Understanding Temperature
All About Heat
Article Sections: Measuring Heat, The Science of
Heat, Convection, Radiation
Heat and Temperature With Graphic organizers
Article Section: The Effects of heat, What Causes
Changes in Heat and Temperature?
Energy and Matter
o All About Matter
Article Sections: States of Matter, Solids, Liquids,
Gases, How Does Matter Change from One State to
Another, Will All Matter Melt?
TrueFLIX
Experiments with Solids, Liquids, and States
o Chapter: The States of Matter
Section: The Properties of Matter
o Chapter: A Solid State
o Chapter: How Do Liquids Behave?
Section: Experiment #1: Changing Properties
SLO: Describe the role of insulation in keeping things hot or cold, and
identify places where some form of insulation is use; e.g. clothing,
refrigeration, coolers, homes.
SLO: Identify materials that insulate animals from the cold; e.g., wool, fur
and feathers; and identify materials that are used by humans for the same
purpose.
PowerKnowledge Life Science
Science Fair Projects and Experiments
o Keeping Warm
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Topic E: Small Crawling and Flying Animals
SLO: Recognize that there are many different kinds of small crawling and
flying animals, and identify a range of examples that are found locally.
Amazing Animals of the World
Mammals
o Bats
Little Brown Bat
o Rodents
Artic Ground Squirrel
Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel
Guinea Pig
North American Porcupine
Red Squirrel
Birds
o Ducks, geese, Swans, Waterfoul
Canada Goose
Mallard
o Hummingbirds, swifts
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
o Owls
Barn Owl
Boreal Owl
Burrowing Owl
Great Gray owl
Great Horned Owl
Amphibians
o Frogs and Toads
American Toad
Wood Frog
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Arthropods
o Ants, Bees, Wasps
Honey Bee
o Butterflies, Moths
Common Wood Nymph
Giant Swallowtail Butterfly
Monarch Butterfly
Peppered Moth
Tortoiseshell Butterfly
Wooly Bear Caterpillar
o Crickets, Grasshoppers, Katydid, Locusts
Bush Cricket
Mormon Cricket
o Damselflies, Dragonflies
Mosaic Darner
o Earwigs
Earwigs
o Gnats, Mosquitos, True Flies
American Horsefly
Blowfly
Common Fruit Fly
House Fly
Mosquito
o True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Relatives
Bedbug
Common Backswimmer
Treehopper
Water Measurer
Water Strider
o Spiders
Barn Funnel Weaver
Common House Spider
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Other Invertebrates
o Earthworm
Earthworm (Nightcrawler)
o Land Snails and Slugs
Giant Garden Slug
o Pond Snails
Great Pond Snail
o Gordian Worms
Horsehair Worm
BookFLIX
Animals and Nature
o The Ant and the Grasshopper/Inside an Ant Colony
o Diary of a Fly/Flies are Fascinating
o Diary of a Spider/A Spiderling Grows Up
o Diary of a Worm/It Could Still be a Worm
o Hi Fly Guy/It’s a Good Thing There Are Insects
o Owen/Mice
o Why Mosquitos Buzz in People’s Ears/World of Insects:
Mosquitos
o Waiting for Wings/Butterflies
o Roberto the Insect Architect/World of Insects: Termites
Adventure
o Scaredy Squirrel/Squirrels
PowerKnowledge Life Science
Animals
o Bugs and Insects
Spiders
Ants
Bees
Butterflies
Centipedes and Millipedes
Dragonflies
Flies and Maggots
Grasshoppers
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Ladybugs
Mosquitoes
Slugs
Snails
Wasps
Worms
o Reptiles and Amphibians
Frogs
Snakes
All About Reptiles and Amphibians
o Mammals
Bats
Prairie Dogs
Science Fair Projects and Experiments
o Animal Behavior
o Build a Bug Trap
o Spider Hunting
o Take a Microhike
SLO: Recognize that small animals, like humans have homes where they
meet their basic needs of air, food, water, shelter and space; and describe
any special characteristics that help the animals survive in its home.
PowerKnowledge Life Science
Food Chains and Food Webs
o Backyard Habitats
Article Sections: What is a Backyard Habitat, All sorts of
Backyard Habitats, What Lives in a Backyard Habitat?,
A Chipmunk is Always Busy, So Many Birds!, What is
that Humming Sounds?, Bugs are Everywhere!, What
Grows in a Backyard Habitat?, Sweet Honeysuckle, A
Wildlife-Friendly Backyard
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Habitats and Ecosystems
o Animals and Their Habitats
Bats and Their Home
Cave Creatures
Forest Animals
Owls and Their Homes
Prairie Animals
Snakes and Their Homes
Wetland Animals
Survival and Adaptation
o Features for Survival
Beaks
Bugs: In Flight (Wings)
Camouflage
Cells
Feet
Skin and Hide
Tails
Teeth
Tongues
SLO: Identify animal’s role within the food chain. To meet this expectation,
students should be able to identify the animals as plant eaters, animal
eaters or decomposers and identify other animals that may use them as a
food source.
PowerKnowledge Life Science
Food Chains and Food Webs
o Backyard Food Chains
Article Sections: Where are Food Chains?, A Nice place
to Live, Backyard Herbivores, Hunters in the Backyard,
The Soil is Alive!, Exploring the Backyard
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o Carnivores
Article Sections: Food Chains and Webs, Predators and
Prey, How Carnivores Hunt, Carnivores Come in All
Sizes, Reptile Carnivores, Carnivores that Fly, Mammal
Carnivores
o Decomposers
Article Sections: Food Chains and Webs, Energy and
Nutrients, Decomposers on the Forest Floor, The
Shredders, A New Beginning
o Herbivores
Article Sections: What Are Food Chains?, Herbivore
Insects in the Food Chain, Herbivore Birds
Science Fair Projects and Experiments
o Bug-Eat-Bug World
SLO: Identify and give examples of ways that small animals avoid predators,
including camouflage, taking cover in burros, use of keen senses and flight.
PowerKnowledge Life Science
Survival and Adaptation
o Features for Survival
Beaks
Bugs: In Flight (Wings)
Camouflage
Cells
Feet
Skin and Hide
Tails
Teeth
Tongues
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