Health 2nd Grade Unit 2: Growth and Development
- Grades
- Grade 2, Elementary
- Pages
- 14
- File type
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- P.E. & Health, Health, Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
- Topic
- health unit, human body
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
- Answer key
- Included
About this resource
What's inside this resource
This 2nd grade health unit on growth and development teaches young learners how their bodies grow and work. Seven short lessons each start with a brief "Learn" box and end with three tasks. Students sort examples of growth and learning new skills, see how bones and muscles move the body, follow touch messages from nerves to the brain, compare the jobs of the heart and lungs, trace food from the mouth to the large intestine, learn how skin and eyelashes protect the body, and practice naming a feeling and choosing a safe action.
A review page has students match seven body systems to their jobs with cut-out cards, or by writing the card letters. A four-question assessment follows. Every situation uses fictional children, and no task asks for personal measurements or private experiences.
- Grade 2: health, with teacher-read directions and oral answer options
- Fourteen pages: seven lessons, a review match, an assessment, cut-out cards, a teacher plan, an assessment guide and a two-page answer guide
- Print options: a full-color PDF and a print-friendly black and white PDF
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Tell the difference between body growth and learning a new skill.
Explain that muscles pull on bones to move the body.
Describe how nerves carry messages to the brain.
Teaching tips
Use the short model on the teacher plan before each lesson page; each one takes about 15–20 minutes.
For the review on page 8, students can cut and glue the page 10 cards or simply write each card letter in the space.
Read assessment items 23–26 aloud without clues and accept spoken or dictated answers.
Skills covered
Growth and development: students sort examples as body growth or learning a skill and write kind facts about different growth rates.
Body systems: students connect bones, muscles, nerves, heart, lungs, digestive organs and skin to their jobs.
Sequencing: students fill in missing stops on the path food takes through the body.
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What topics does this unit cover?
Growth and development, bones and muscles, the brain and nerves, the heart and lungs, digestion, skin and hair, and feelings, with one lesson for each.
Is there an answer key?
Yes. A two-page answer guide covers all 26 tasks, and a separate 9-point guide explains how to score the assessment.
Do students need to cut and glue?
Only for the review match, and it is optional. Students can write the letter of each card in the space instead.
Does any activity ask students about their own bodies?
No. All situations use fictional children, and no task asks for measurements, health histories or personal experiences.
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Core concepts
growth and development
body systems
skeletal and muscular systems
nervous system
heart and lungs
digestion
feelings
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