Year two Life Science Activities
If you're trying to work on your green thumb this year, try our year two life science activities with your kids that will get you working with nature in no time.
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Swimmy Science: Raising Tadpoles!
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Swimmy Science: Raising Tadpoles!
First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!
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Growing Flowers
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Growing Flowers
This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!
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Create a Fish Art Print!
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Create a Fish Art Print!
The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!
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Give Birds a Feast with This Suet Feeder
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Give Birds a Feast with This Suet Feeder
Feed your birds from kitchen leftovers and give your first grader some excellent scientific practise in identifying our feathered friends.
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Make a Butterfly Habitat
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Make a Butterfly Habitat
Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.
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Make a Desktop Desert Terrarium
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Make a Desktop Desert Terrarium
Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.
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Make Leaf Rubbing Gift Cards
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Make Leaf Rubbing Gift Cards
Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.
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Make Ladybug Tightrope Racers
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Make Ladybug Tightrope Racers
Here's a year two ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practise, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!
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Label the Food Groups
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Label the Food Groups
Help build help your first grader's reading vocabulary while also boosting their nutritional knowledge with this easy and fun home science activity.
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How to Grow an Avocado Plant
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How to Grow an Avocado Plant
Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.
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Learn about Life Cycle in a Bowl!
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Learn about Life Cycle in a Bowl!
Help your year two scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.
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Craft a Swan Plant Container
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Craft a Swan Plant Container
Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!
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Create a Shoebox Habitat
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Create a Shoebox Habitat
Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.
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Enjoy a Plant-Part Dinner and Learn Some year two Science
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Enjoy a Plant-Part Dinner and Learn Some year two Science
First graders learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.
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Go, Seeds, Go!
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Go, Seeds, Go!
Here's a science activity to help your first-grader investigate how seeds are designed to travel.
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Crab Craft
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Crab Craft
This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.
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Grow Your Own Grass
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Grow Your Own Grass
This year two science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.
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Make a Milk Carton Bird House
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Make a Milk Carton Bird House
Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.
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Potato Maze: Make a Plant Obstacle Course!
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Potato Maze: Make a Plant Obstacle Course!
This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.
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Natural Easter Egg Dyes
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Natural Easter Egg Dyes
Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: colour your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this year 2 activity.
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How Much Does a Caterpillar Eat?
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How Much Does a Caterpillar Eat?
Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practise the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.
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Make Your Own Ant Farm
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Make Your Own Ant Farm
For your budding year two scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.
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Egg Carton Garden
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Egg Carton Garden
Here's a simple and fun year one or year two gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.
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Skeleton Hand Print
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Skeleton Hand Print
Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws
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Making Measurements: How Big is Your Hand?
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Making Measurements: How Big is Your Hand?
Here's a fun maths and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.
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