Classroom Resource

Worms at Work!

Subject Area

English Language Arts
Science

Grade(s)

2

Overview

Get close-up and grossed-out as you learn about the wonderful way worms work in our environment. Learn vermicomposting, and dig into how an author may write text to support his or her point of view.

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.24

Identify the main idea and supporting details of literary and informational texts.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.2.24

Vocabulary

  • Main idea
  • Supporting details
  • Literary text
  • Informational text

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The main idea is the most important idea presented in the text.
  • The supporting details explain the main idea or provide more information about the main idea.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify the main idea in literary and informational text.
  • Identify the supporting details in literary and informational text.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Literary and informational texts have a main idea, or most important message, and supporting details, which provide more information about the main idea.
  • A text usually just has one main idea, but multiple supporting details.
Science (2015) Grade(s): 2

SC15.2.7

Obtain information from literature and other media to illustrate that there are many different kinds of living things and that they exist in different places on land and in water (e.g., woodland, tundra, desert, rainforest, ocean, river).

Unpacked Content

UP:SC15.2.7

Vocabulary

  • Literature
  • Media
  • Diversity
  • Habitats
  • Woodland
  • Tundra
  • Desert
  • Rainforest
  • Ocean
  • River

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Plants and animals are diverse within different habitats.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Obtain information from literature and other media.
  • Illustrate the different kinds of living things and the different habitats in which they can be found.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There are many different kinds of living things in any area, and they exist in different places on land and in water.

Scientific and Engineering Practices

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Crosscutting Concepts

Patterns
Link to Resource
https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/reach-with-stem-worms-at-work/worms-…

CR Resource Type

Interactive/Game

Resource Provider

PBS
Accessibility

Accessibility

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License

License Type

Custom

Custom License Type (URL)

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