Caring for the Earth is an important part of responsible decision-making and global citizenship. The Earth provided for our most basic needs. We need to understand, care and protect our environment. Through this lesson, students will read a Navajo legend, "Honeeshgish," or fire poker, This fire tool is sacred to traditional Navajo. They believe that the Holy People blessed it and gave it to the Dinè to use in their fireplaces, their homes, and their ceremonies. Fire is both good and bad, we must be responsible for good fire use. This lesson will support fire ecology curriculum. 

In this Nearpod activity, students strengthen their understanding of changing states of matter by completing a vocabulary challenge matching changes in states of matter with the correct examples

This is an interactive, second-grade Nearpod lesson tied to SEEd standard 2.3.4. It guides students through information and activities about changes in matter caused by heating or cooling.
This resource is a student-ready, three-dimensional SEEd science lesson you can add to your Nearpod library. Many of the phenomena, text, and images come from UEN OER textbooks, Seedstorylines.org, ck12.org, and pixabay.com. Most videos are from youtube.com or pbslearningmedia.org. Many of the simulations were found at phet.colorado.edu, ck12.org, and pbslearningmedia.org. This lesson is unique to Nebo School District but was built with the help of many amazing ideas from teachers throughout Utah.

Students will learn about the three states of matter and their properrties. Picture by: Yelod - Wikimedia Commons * Yelod - Wikipedia (En) * ילוד - ויקיפדיה העברית, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

2nd Grade SEEd textbook for the 2022-2023 school year. This textbook was developed to align to the Utah Science with Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards. (Added: June 8, 2022)