Year Two Science Unit Bundle | Yearly Science Planning | Australian Curriculum V8 and V9

This bundle includes everything you need to teach Year Two Science for the whole year! With detailed lesson plans, PowerPoint slides and warm-ups, and engaging low-prep resources and experiments, your students will love science (and so will you!). It covers the Physical Science, Chemical Science, Earth & Space Science and Biological Science descriptors of the V8 and V9 Australian Curriculum.

|| Physical Science V9: Updated 2024||

Students explore different actions to make sounds and how to make a variety of sounds, and recognise that sound energy causes objects to vibrate.

What’s included?

Physical Science PowerPoint:

• 180 + slides.
• Vocabulary loading slides.
• Lesson aligned slides with warm-ups, content and conclusions.
• Hyperlinked contents.
• Bonus templates.

12 x Detailed Lesson Plans

• 49 pages of activities and lessons.
• Learning intentions.
• Detailed steps.
• Resource lists.
• Activities with flexible options.
• Assessment rubric.
• Cover pages.

Lesson Outline

Lesson 1: Detective Sound – Identifying and categorising sounds in the environment.

Lesson 2: The Science of Sound – Exploring science vocabulary/vibrations.

Lesson 3: Rice at the Disco – Rice experiment exploring vibrations and volume.

Lesson 4: Balloon Vibrations – Balloon experiment exploring vibrations.

Lesson 5: Sound Safari – Exploring objects and sound production by striking, shaking, strumming and blowing.

Lesson 6: Feeling Pitchy – Exploring pitch through water/jar experiment.

Lesson 7: School of Rock – Creating a Kazoo instrument.

Lesson 8: A World of Sound – Exploring instruments throughout the world and creating a pan pipe.

Lesson 9: Muffle the Bell – Exploring how to muffle sound.

Lesson 10: Batty About Sound – Echoes and echolocation experiment.

Lesson 11: Diving into Sound – Exploring how dolphins use echolocation.

Lesson 12: Sound Scientist – Assessment – Creating an instrument.

 

Bonus: This unit has recently been revised and updated to align with the Australian V9 curriculum. The old unit has also been included as a separate file via Dropbox and Google Drive. Please note that some lessons have been integrated and refreshed from other year levels, to align with curriculum updates.

 

|| Earth and Space Science || Updated ’24 |

Through this unit, students recognise Earth is a planet in the solar system and identify patterns in the changing position of the sun, moon, planets and stars in the sky.

Earth and Space Science PowerPoint:

• 200 + slides.
• Vocabulary loading slides.
• Lesson aligned slides with warm-ups, content and conclusions.
• Hyperlinked contents.
• Bonus templates.

12 x Detailed Lesson Plans

• 70+ pages of activities and lessons.
• Learning intentions.
• Detailed steps.
• Resource lists.
• Activities with flexible options.
• Assessment rubric.
• Cover pages.

Lesson Outline

Lesson 1: Zooming In – Identifying and describing celestial objects.

Lesson 2: Down to Earth – Exploring planet Earth.

Lesson 3: Planet Passport – Exploring and researching planets.

Lesson 4: Excursion to the Moon – Creating a Moon diorama / Moon calendar to take home.

Lesson 5: Sunny, with a Chance of Orbit – Creating a moving diagram of the Sun, Earth and Moon.

Lesson 6: Going Through a Phase – Exploring Moon phases.

Lesson 7: Dialling into Science – Creating a sundial.

Lesson 8: Shadow Safari – Investigating shadows using plastic figurines.

Lesson 9: Science in the Stars – Designing a constellation projector.

Lesson 10: Creating constellations – Creating constellations and relating to cultural knowledge.

Lesson 11: Patterns in the sky – Describing long and short term patters.

Lesson 12: Assessment – Postcards to an alien. Writing postcards responding to question prompts.

 

Bonus: This unit has recently been revised and updated to align with the Australian V9 curriculum. The old unit has also been included as a separate file via Dropbox and Google Drive.

 

|| Chemical Science || Updated ’24 |

Chemical Science PowerPoint

• 180 + slides.
• Vocabulary loading slides.
• Lesson aligned slides with warm-ups, content and conclusions.
• Hyperlinked contents.
• Bonus templates.

12 x Detailed Lesson Plans

• 40+ pages of activities and lessons.
• Learning intentions.
• Detailed steps.
• Resource lists.
• Activities with flexible options.
• Assessment rubric.
• Cover pages.

Lesson Outline

Lesson 1: Spin and Spy – Identifying materials in the classroom.

Lesson 2: Flying Through Science – Creating paper airplanes.

Lesson 3: A-Maze-Ing Manipulation – Manipulating play dough to create a ball run.

Lesson 4: Tug of Material – Testing strength of materials.

Lesson 5: Sailing on Straws – Creating a boat out of straws.

Lesson 6: Spaghetti Scaffolding – Experimenting with the strength of spaghetti.

Lesson 7: Property Detectives – Exploring materials and physical changes.

Lesson 8: The Art of Science – Creating artwork using paper manipulation.

Lesson 9: Weaving Through Science – Exploring weaving throughout cultures/weaving paper bag.

Lesson 10: Seedy Paper – Reusing paper to create seed balls.

Lesson 11: Scribbled Science – Melting old crayons to create new ones.

Lesson 12: Material Mayhem – Assessment – Sharing knowledge.

 

Bonus: This unit has recently been revised and updated to align with the Australian V9 curriculum. The old unit has also been included as a separate file via Dropbox and Google Drive. Please note that some lessons have been integrated and refreshed from other year levels, to align with curriculum updates.

 

Biological Science (V8 version – not updated to V9).

Biological Science PowerPoint:

• 85 + slides.
• Vocabulary warm-up slides
• Activity slides linked to each lesson plan.

10 x Detailed Lesson Plans:

• Includes learning intentions.
• Detailed steps.
• Resource lists.

38+ Pages of Activity sheet and resources:

Topics include:

• See, Think, Wonder.
• Me Through the Ages.
• My Fantastic Face.
• Same but Different.
• Guess Who?
• Hoppin’ through life.
• Butterfly Timelines.
• Growth Trackers.
• Growing up!
• Assessment: Show what you know.

Optional versions of most resources have been included, to cater to the needs of your students.