Click on the picture above to visit National Geographic's Animal Habitats page

Click here to learn more about Habitats.

Let's learn about our class visitor, the Northern Ringneck Snake.

Click on the links to see if you can find the name of the snake visiting our class.

Snakes of Pennsylvania by the Fish and Boat

21 Snakes of PA by Penn Live

The Diadophis punctatus by the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory

It's Groundhog Day! Watch the videos below to learn more about the funny creature and Groundhog Day.

Learn more about Groundhog Day...

So what did

Punxsutawney Phil

Predict today

February 2, 2017? Click

here to find out.

Click on the picture below to learn about special animal adaptations.

Click here to learn about animal Adaptations.

Jane Goodall

Learn More about Jane Goodall's Institute.

Click on the picture to learn more about Jane Goodall and her foundation.

Polyphemus Caterpillar and Moth

Antheraea polyphemus

Click on the Links below to learn more about our Polyphemus Moth Caterpillar...

http://www.wormspit.com/polyphemus.htm

http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/MISC/MOTHS/polyphemus_moth.htm

http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/polyphemus_moth.htm

http://butterflies.aa6g.org/Butterflies/Raised/polyphemus.html

Click on the picture to watch videos of real kid inventors on the Ellen Show.

Dinosaur Information

Click on the Picture to Learn More about Dinosaurs

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History

NOTE: This site only works on a desktop computer. It does not work on an iPad.

Check out kidsdinos.com

National Museum of Natural History link

One exhibit choice you can build is a diorama. Click here or on the picture above to visit First Palette for directions on building a really cool dinosaur exhibit.

Click on the picture above to learn more about our Moon.

Click on the picture to learn more about the Moon.

Click on the links to learn more...

Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum

The Sonoran Desert

Animals in the Desert Biome

The Life Cycle of

the Spadefoot Toad

The Sounds of the

Spadefoot Toad

Lego Activities

Click on the picture to learn more about all kinds of weather.

Click on the picture above to learn more about Super Croc.

Science Fridays

Fridays are S.T.E.M. days. In second grade, we will be using science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to learn to solve real-world problems.

Whales and Seals Quick Links

Click here or on the picture to learn more about The Marine Mammal Center from our story, "The Harbor Seal Pup Grows Up."

Click here to learn more about Harbor Seals.

Click here to learn about whales.

Click on the Picture to learn more about worms and composting

Click here to watch a video and learn more about worm composting on Dragonfly TV.com

Click on the Pic to learn more about earthworms

Click on the picture to learn more about tornadoes

The Spring Peeper

This is our class insect, the Praying Mantis. We found it outside of our classroom. In order to keep it alive and well, we needed to build an artificial habitat.

First, we started by learning more about a praying mantis and what it needs to survive. We read books and did research online to find out all that we could.

Next, we used our research to draw habitat designs with our Tri-Teams.

After designing our habitats, we went outside to gather material to build our habitat.

We worked as a team to use the materials that we gathered to build the artificial habitat.

Lego Robot Engineering.

Partners used our Lego Robot sets and manuals to build different robots, like a lion with a working mouth, an airplane with a moving propeller, and working crane.

We then used Lego WeDo Software to remotely control our models and robots. We will be constructing student engineered robots later in the school year. The students will then use the WeDo Software to control the robot that they built in order to perform a task.