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Written by Dr. Evan J. Hasson, DC — a dad of three who built this curriculum for his own kids.

50 questions with the answers, free to print and free to photocopy for your own students. Drawn across every topic in the grade rather than one — life science, earth science, physical science and engineering design.

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Science — Grade 2

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  1. 1. Is an earthquake a fast or slow Earth change?
    1. A. Fast ← Answer
    2. B. It takes a million years
    3. C. It never changes the land
    4. D. Slow
  2. 2. What is a map?
    1. A. A list of foods
    2. B. A drawing of a place as if seen from above ← Answer
    3. C. A story about animals in a big dark forest
    4. D. A photo of a person
  3. 3. What is a fair test?
    1. A. A test with no plan
    2. B. A test you do only once a year
    3. C. A test where you change everything at once
    4. D. A test where only one thing is changed ← Answer
  4. 4. What does 'pollinate' mean?
    1. A. Dig up a seed from the soil in the garden
    2. B. Cut a flower
    3. C. Water a plant
    4. D. Move pollen from one flower to another ← Answer
  5. 5. What is a habitat?
    1. A. A type of weather
    2. B. A tool for digging in the garden soil
    3. C. A kind of food
    4. D. A place where plants and animals live ← Answer
  6. 6. What do we call something you can observe about a material, like its color or how hard it is?
    1. A. A pattern
    2. B. A weather prediction
    3. C. A habitat
    4. D. A property ← Answer
  7. 7. What does 'reversible' mean?
    1. A. A change that can be undone ← Answer
    2. B. A change that can never be undone
    3. C. Something that is very cold
    4. D. Something that is very hot
  8. 8. What is data?
    1. A. A guess you make before you start the test
    2. B. The results you write down ← Answer
    3. C. A kind of paper
  9. 9. Is a river carving a deep canyon a fast or slow change?
    1. A. Fast
    2. B. It happens in one minute
    3. C. Slow ← Answer
    4. D. It happens in one day
  10. 10. What color do most maps use for lakes and oceans?
    1. A. Yellow
    2. B. Brown
    3. C. Blue ← Answer
    4. D. Red
  11. 11. What is a prediction?
    1. A. A smart guess about what will happen ← Answer
    2. B. A list of materials
    3. C. A kind of plant
    4. D. What you saw at the end of the whole test
  12. 12. What does 'disperse' mean?
    1. A. Stay in one spot
    2. B. Spread out to new places ← Answer
    3. C. Turn into a flower in spring
    4. D. Grow roots
  13. 13. What does 'variety' mean?
    1. A. Something very big
    2. B. Many examples of the same thing
    3. C. Many different kinds ← Answer
    4. D. Only one kind
  14. 14. Which of these objects is the hardest?
    1. A. A wool sock
    2. B. A pillow
    3. C. A brick ← Answer
    4. D. A cotton ball
  15. 15. What does 'irreversible' mean?
    1. A. A change that cannot be undone ← Answer
    2. B. A change that can be undone
    3. C. A change that only happens in winter
    4. D. Something that melts
  16. 16. What is a fair test?
    1. A. A test you do only one time
    2. B. A test that both designs are able to pass without any trouble
    3. C. A test where only the design changes ← Answer
  17. 17. What is a landslide?
    1. A. A slow river
    2. B. A sandy beach
    3. C. Lots of soil and rock sliding quickly down a hill ← Answer
    4. D. A very tall mountain with white snow all over its top
  18. 18. What is water with land all around it called?
    1. A. A plain
    2. B. A lake ← Answer
    3. C. An island
    4. D. A mountain
  19. 19. Which two things do most plants need to grow well, as we tested?
    1. A. Candy and milk
    2. B. Music and wind
    3. C. Sunlight and water ← Answer
    4. D. Darkness and dry sand
  20. 20. Which animal is famous for moving pollen between flowers?
    1. A. A turtle
    2. B. A snail
    3. C. A bee ← Answer
    4. D. A shark
  21. 21. Which animal lives in a pond?
    1. A. A camel
    2. B. A frog ← Answer
    3. C. A cactus wren
    4. D. A polar bear
  22. 22. Which word tells how something feels when you touch it?
    1. A. Shape
    2. B. Texture ← Answer
    3. C. Size
    4. D. Bright color
  23. 23. What happens to an ice pop left out on a hot day?
    1. A. It stays the same
    2. B. It turns into hard wood
    3. C. It melts into liquid ← Answer
    4. D. It gets harder
  24. 24. What is a strength of a design?
    1. A. Something it does well ← Answer
    2. B. Its price
    3. C. Its color
    4. D. A material that is heavy and does not bend at all
  25. 25. What is a volcano?
    1. A. A flat field
    2. B. An opening where hot melted rock comes out ← Answer
    3. C. A deep lake
    4. D. A kind of big gray rain cloud high up in the sky
  26. 26. What is land with water all around it called?
    1. A. A tall hill
    2. B. An island ← Answer
    3. C. A lake
    4. D. A river
  27. 27. What does 'observe' mean?
    1. A. Look closely and notice ← Answer
    2. B. Cut something in half quickly
    3. C. Guess
    4. D. Throw away
  28. 28. What part of a plant can grow into a new plant?
    1. A. A dead leaf
    2. B. A thorn
    3. C. The bark
    4. D. A seed ← Answer
  29. 29. Which plant grows well in a hot, dry desert?
    1. A. A cactus ← Answer
    2. B. A water lily
    3. C. Moss in a wet forest
    4. D. Seaweed
  30. 30. Which object is flexible?
    1. A. A stone
    2. B. A shoelace ← Answer
    3. C. A wooden block
    4. D. A glass jar
  31. 31. What do we call it when a liquid turns into a solid because it gets cold?
    1. A. Burning
    2. B. Melting fast
    3. C. Baking
    4. D. Freezing ← Answer
  32. 32. What is a weakness of a design?
    1. A. The lightest material it is made of
    2. B. Something it does poorly ← Answer
    3. C. Its shape
    4. D. Its name
  33. 33. What is erosion?
    1. A. Rain falling from clouds
    2. B. A plant growing
    3. C. Rock melting in a volcano far away in the hills
    4. D. Wind or water carrying rock and soil away ← Answer
  34. 34. What is a huge body of salt water called?
    1. A. An ocean ← Answer
    2. B. A pond
    3. C. A puddle
    4. D. A river
  35. 35. A plant gets no water for many days. What will it most likely look like?
    1. A. Tall and green
    2. B. Dry and droopy ← Answer
    3. C. Full of flowers
    4. D. Blue
  36. 36. Why do bees visit flowers?
    1. A. To play hide and seek in the garden
    2. B. To get food like nectar and pollen ← Answer
    3. C. To sleep
    4. D. To drink rain
  37. 37. Which animal lives in the ocean?
    1. A. A robin
    2. B. A rabbit
    3. C. An octopus ← Answer
    4. D. A squirrel
  38. 38. How does sandpaper feel?
    1. A. Rough ← Answer
    2. B. Squishy
    3. C. Smooth
    4. D. Stretchy
  39. 39. What do we call it when a solid turns into a liquid because it gets warm?
    1. A. Cooling
    2. B. Freezing
    3. C. Melting ← Answer
    4. D. Sorting
  40. 40. Plane A flew 80 cm and plane B flew 120 cm. Which flew farther?
    1. A. Plane A, because 80 came first in the list of results
    2. B. Plane B ← Answer
    3. C. They flew the same
  41. 41. What is a canyon?
    1. A. A kind of volcano
    2. B. A tall pile of sand
    3. C. A deep valley with steep sides, carved by a river ← Answer
    4. D. A flat field of grass with no hills or rocks at all
  42. 42. What is large flat land called?
    1. A. A plain ← Answer
    2. B. A mountain
    3. C. A canyon
    4. D. A hill
  43. 43. A plant is kept in a dark closet with water. What will it most likely look like after two weeks?
    1. A. Dark green and strong
    2. B. Covered in fruit
    3. C. Exactly like a plant in the sun
    4. D. Pale and thin ← Answer
  44. 44. What is a model?
    1. A. A real animal
    2. B. A garden tool
    3. C. A copy that shows how something works ← Answer
    4. D. A kind of seed from a big garden tree
  45. 45. What does 'compare' mean?
    1. A. Draw a nice big picture of something you like
    2. B. Find how things are the same and different ← Answer
    3. C. Throw away
    4. D. Count to ten
  46. 46. What is a spoon made of if it is shiny, cold and hard and does not bend?
    1. A. Paper
    2. B. Rubber
    3. C. Cotton
    4. D. Metal ← Answer
  47. 47. Can a baked cookie turn back into cookie dough?
    1. A. Yes, if you add water
    2. B. Yes, if you cool it
    3. C. No, baking cannot be undone ← Answer
    4. D. Yes, if you wait a day or two
  48. 48. Why do you write results in a table?
    1. A. Because tables are required
    2. B. So you can compare the two designs easily ← Answer
    3. C. Tables look neat on the page when a parent checks your work
  49. 49. Is a volcano erupting fast or slow?
    1. A. Slow
    2. B. Fast ← Answer
    3. C. It never changes land
    4. D. It takes millions of years to erupt once
  50. 50. What is very tall land with steep sides called?
    1. A. A deep valley
    2. B. A plain
    3. C. A mountain ← Answer
    4. D. A lake
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Earth Changes: Fast and Slow

The child will use examples to explain that some Earth events happen quickly, like landslides and volcanic eruptions, and some happen slowly, like canyons forming. · 40 min

Warm-up — say this

“The Earth changes too. Some changes are fast and some are super slow!”

Worked example

Is an earthquake a fast or slow change?

Answer: Fast. The ground shakes for seconds or minutes and can change the land right away.

A mistake students make

Rocks never change.

How the book fixes it

Show the sugar cube wearing away on sandpaper. Wind and water wear rock down slowly over time.

Note to the parent

If you have no sand, damp soil from the garden works; do the pouring outside for easy cleanup.

That is one topic of many. The free questions above check a skill; this is the part that teaches it.

Practice is not teaching. Science · Grade 2 is the part that teaches.

These questions check a skill your student has already met. They do not explain anything, and they are not meant to — that is what the workbook is for, and it is the whole difference between the two.

  1. It teaches.Each topic is a forty-minute lesson that tells you what to say, in order: a five-minute warm-up, twelve minutes of teaching, ten minutes guided, ten minutes on their own, three minutes to close. Written for a parent who has never taught.
  2. It explains.Two worked examples per topic, and the two mistakes students actually make on that exact skill — named, with how to correct each one. When a student is stuck, the book already knows why.
  3. It reviews.Every answer comes with a short explanation, not just a key. And every topic has its own question bank, so a student who needs another go gets different questions rather than the same page again.
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Other grades

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Further reading

Science at the Kitchen Table, With Things You OwnHomeschool science without a lab: the one idea that carries K–5, eight experiments using household items, and what to write down.

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