
This Grade 2 STEM Full-Year Curriculum provides 36 weeks of hands-on engineering, science, problem solving, data analysis, and unplugged coding activities. Organized into six sequenced units, it helps students become confident STEM problem solvers while making year-long planning easier for teachers.
The six units focus on Engineering Design, Matter & Materials, Forces & Motion, Living Systems, Earth & Weather, and Human Solutions. Each week features a complete STEM challenge using a consistent engineering process: Ask → Imagine → Plan → Build → Test → Improve. Students define problems, develop solutions, build models, conduct repeated trials, analyze evidence, and improve their designs.
The curriculum includes 36 weekly challenges, 15 data investigations, 15 unplugged coding activities, six unit projects, a 36-week pacing guide, materials lists, preparation guidance, and editable standards alignment tables. Activities incorporate measurement, comparison, graphing, data collection, and evidence-based decision making.
Each challenge is designed around five classroom sessions of approximately 45–60 minutes, with flexible options for classrooms with fewer STEM blocks. Students can work independently, with partners, or in teams while explaining their thinking and supporting conclusions with evidence.
The program aligns with NGSS K–2 Engineering Design standards, including K-2-ETS1-1, K-2-ETS1-2, and K-2-ETS1-3, as well as relevant CCSS Math and ELA standards. Students develop skills in measurement, operations, geometry, graphing, speaking, listening, informational writing, collaboration, and research.
Challenges use common classroom or recycled materials and include engaging topics such as bridges, marble runs, parachutes, water filters, habitats, weather shelters, simple machines, and more.
By following the same engineering routine throughout the year, students develop stronger planning, testing, data analysis, communication, and problem-solving skills. Most importantly, they learn that successful engineering involves using evidence to improve a design rather than simply starting over.
This resource provides a structured, engaging, and interdisciplinary STEM program for Grade 2 while significantly reducing teacher preparation and planning time.
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