Mrs. Aiello's Class

Check out our lesson plans below! This "living document" will update as the weeks go on. This is a great way to see what's happening if you're absent or, as a guardian, if you'd like to follow along from home!

2nd Grade STEM Plans 2024-2025

This year in second grade STEM, we will hopefully cover these topics (time-dependent):

Our first unit is on area and perimeter of rectangles:
- investigate to develop the concept of perimeter and define it
- measure to find the perimeter
- explore multiple ways to find perimeter of rectangles
- solve complex problems using the perimeter formula
- investigate to develop the concept of area and define it
- through investigations, develop a formula or process of measuring area of a rectangle
- apply what they have learned to irregular polygons
- connect their learning to the multiplication table
- apply and practice determining perimeter and area in application problem solving situations
Inertia!
- Design investigations to explore the properties of energy.
- Explain the importance of procedures in science.
- Define and identify kinetic and potential energy.
- Explain how energy is transferred.
- Explain how inertia is related to kinetic and potential energy.
- Predict values based on investigations.
- Accurately collect data from a variety of investigations.
- Find averages of data.
- Communicate their learning to each other and the teacher.
- Create generalizations based on observations and data.
- Communicate our thinking clearly
Big & Small Numbers: Students will strengthen their understanding of place value, the base-ten number system and addition and subtraction using large numbers. They will learn the following standards:
- Read and write a number in word form and standard form.
- Compose and decompose numbers using expanded form and alternatives (i.e. 746 can be decomposed by place value as 700 + 40 + 6. It can also be decomposed as 700 + 46, 600 + 146, 500 + 246, 699 + 56, etc).
- Compare numbers using place value and symbols.
- Understand decimal notation for fractions, and compare decimal fractions.
- Compare two decimals to hundredths and whole numbers through the millions by reasoning about their size. Record the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, or <, and justify the conclusions, e.g., by using a visual model.
- Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit
Project Sphinx - in this interactive unit, students will learn how to:
- Pay attention to details
- Solve problems using all four operations
- Learn how to represent all four operations using bar diagrams
- Explain our thinking about problems WITHOUT using numbers

We will also practice and assess our problem-solving strategies using CML (Continental Mathematics League).

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