2nd Grade Learning Activities

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Art and Music:

Mr. Picasso Head
Use this cool digital tool that allows users to create their own masterpieces using famous features drawn by the famous artist Pablo Picasso.
NGAKids Art Zone
This website from the National Gallery of Art has fifteen different digital interactives that let you create art online.

Keyboarding:

Dance Mat Typing
Learn to type the fun way with BBC's Dance Mat typing!

Language Arts:

Acrostic Poems
Learn how to write an acrostic poem with ReadWriteThink's poetry interactive.
Balloon Pronouns
Use your skill with pronouns to pop the correct balloons and win.
Balloon Verbs
Identify the verbs, pop the balloons and score big points.
Coconut Vowels
Can you figure out what letter is missing and make a word before the coconut drops and cracks?
Pronoun Clubhouse
If you are skilled at using pronouns you can build a cool clubhouse.  Try it!
Verbs with 2Bee or Nottoobee
2Bee and Queen Nottoobee need flowers to make honey. Help them by choosing the correct verb to complete the sentences.
Word Frog
Your knowledge of antonyms, synonyms and homonyms will help feed the hungry frog.

Math:

Arcademic Skill Building Games
This website has math and reading games for different grade levels.
Alien Addition
Save the world from aliens and practice your facts at the same time!
Counting Money
Review your skills with pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.
Create a Graph
Use this website to help you create bar, pie and line graphs in a few simple steps.
Fact Family Addition and Subtraction
Knowing your fact families makes adding and subtracting quick and easy. Practice them here.
Greg Tang Math
Try these math games to test your skills and strategies.
Make a Dollar
Use the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives site to practice counting money.
Measure It @ FunBrain
Practice measuring with Builder Beaver in inches and centimeters. Different skill levels will challenge you.
Multiplication.com
You'll find a variety of multiplication and other math games here.
Reading Graphs
Graphs are everywhere so practice your skills at reading them!

Puzzles and Problem-solving:

ABCya
You'll find reading, math and problem-solving games galore here.
Order in the Library
Do you know how books are arranged in the library? Test your skills at correctly shelving the virtual books and earn your library assistant certificates.

Science:

Force and Movement @ BBC Science
Experiment with trucks to learn about different levels of force.
Forces in Action @ BBC Science
Experiment with weight and incline and their effects on movement and speed.
FOSS Web Activities
Science interactives that help you practice concepts that you are learning in class.
Friction @ BBC Science
Experiment with different surfaces to learn about friction and movement.
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History Virtual Tour
See the sights at the museum in Washington D.C. - on your computer!
Spiders @ Explorit
You will find lots of general information about spiders here.
Spiders @ Kidzone
You can find information about 10 different species of spiders here at KidZone.
Spiders @ Everythingabout
This website has general information about spiders plus pages for specific species (types).
Spiders - Black Widow
Find out all the gory facts about this venomous spider.
Spiders - Garden Spider (Orb Spinner)
Find a few facts about this familiar arachnid.
Spiders - Identification Chart
You'll find information about lots of different spiders here.
Spiders - Myths and Misconceptions
You can read about things that are NOT true about spiders here.
Spiders - Tarantula
Learn about these hairy arachnids at Enchanted Learning.
Spiders - Tarantula Images
You will find great photographs here.

Social Studies:

Ben's Guide to Government
Learn about the symbols, history and work of our nation's government.
Holidays - Christmas in Mexico
Holidays - Christmas around the World
Holidays - Christmas around the World #2
Holidays - Time and Date around the World
You can find the dates and information about different types of religious and legal holidays celebrated in the United States and foreign countries.
Landforms Glossary @Enchanted Learning
You'll find definitions and pictures of many different landforms.
Landforms @MrNussbaum
Mr. Nussbaum does it again! Click on the landform on the map and get a picture, a brief definition and a real-world example of that landform.
​Native American Tribes
This website is written by Native Americans for students and answers many questions that students have about Native American culture.
Timeline Maker
Here's a website that helps you create simple timelines.