STE for 2nd Class

Deepen Stage 2 living-things outcomes: tell living, once-living and never-living apart, use the senses for careful scientific observations, see how food gives energy to grow and thrive, observe local and wider plants, run a two-lesson observe-over-time investigation into what plants need, and explore an animal life cycle. Nature of STEM is woven as STEM eyes on the immediate environment.

1. STEM Eyes and Living Things
2. 1 What Does It Do, and How Could We Find Out? Sample lesson
3. 2 Living, Once-living or Never-living?
4. Senses and Growing
5. 3 Our Senses Help Us Investigate
6. 4 Food Gives Us Energy to Grow
7. Plants Around Us
8. 5 Plants in Our Local and Wider World
9. Project: What Do Plants Need to Grow?
10. 6 Set Up Our Plant Investigation
11. 7 What Did Our Plants Need?
12. Animal Life Cycles
13. 8 An Animal's Life Cycle

Deepen the Materials strand: natural vs synthetic, comparing and contrasting properties, asking which material suits a job, then gentle inquiries into warming and cooling, mixing, Irish weathering, and looking after materials and the planet.

1. Natural, Synthetic and Properties for a Job
2. 9 Natural and Synthetic Materials
3. 10 Comparing Properties
4. 11 Ask a Testable Question: Which Material Suits the Job?
5. Changing Materials
6. 12 Warming and Cooling Materials
7. 13 Mixing Materials: What Happens?
8. 14 Weathering: What Does Irish Weather Do?
9. Looking After Materials and Our Planet
10. 15 Looking After Materials and Our Planet

Deepen Energy and forces: the jobs energy does in everyday life and how to conserve it for the planet, simple inquiries into how forces change motion (including ramps and rolling), then sound sources, vibrations, volume and sound insulation.

1. Energy in Everyday Life
2. 16 Energy in Our Everyday Lives
3. 17 Saving Energy for the Planet
4. Forces and Motion
5. 18 Forces Start, Stop and Turn Things
6. 19 An Inquiry Into Ramps and Rolling
7. Sound Around Us
8. 20 Where Do Sounds Come From?
9. 21 Vibrations Make Sound
10. 22 Volume: What Makes a Sound Louder?
11. 23 Sound Insulation: Making It Quieter

Deepen technology: purposes of digital and non-digital technologies, steps inside everyday jobs, decompose and debug unplugged, deeper ScratchJr (repeats and a two-character story), one gentle big Scratch taster, and a longer floor-robot program.

1. Technologies and the Steps They Follow
2. 24 Technology That Helps Us
3. 25 How Does It Work? Steps Inside an Everyday Job
4. Decompose, Repeat and Debug
5. 26 Order the Steps, Spot the Repeat, Find the Bug
6. Scratchjr Deeper and a Scratch Taster
7. 27 ScratchJr: a Sequence with a Repeat
8. 28 ScratchJr: a Little Story with Two Characters
9. 29 From ScratchJr to Scratch: a Taster
10. Floor Robots and Precise Programs
11. 30 Robots and Rules: Programming the Floor Robot

Deepen the design process at Stage 2 lightness: feel how folds strengthen paper, draft and choose a design, build a stronger structure and a model with a moving part, then run a two-lesson make-and-share design-build for a real user.

1. Strong Shapes and Drafting a Design
2. 31 Flat Flops, Folded Holds
3. 32 Draft and Choose a Design
4. Build Strong and Make It Move
5. 33 Build a Stronger Structure
6. 34 Make Something That Moves
7. Project: Design and Make a Helper
8. 35 Plan and Draft the Helper
9. 36 Make, Share and Reflect