JumpStart 2nd Grade Science

JumpStart 2nd Grade Science is a 2nd Grade workbook released in 2000. It is intended to teach science concepts at a second grade level. The book follows CJ and Edison on a trip to a farm.

It is also included as a section in the JumpStart 2nd Grade Jumbo Workbook.

Characters

 * CJ
 * Edison
 * Farmer Molly

Summary
JumpStart Scholastic workbooks each have three sections for different topics. Each section has three difficulty levels and a review portion.

Level 1

 * CJ and Edison visit a bunch of animal families on the farm. Readers are instructed to unscramble the names of various farm animals and their babies and write the names in the blanks beneath each animal's picture. Some of the blanks have circles around them. When all of the unscrambled names are written, the letters that are in the circled blanks spell out the name of the class these animals belong to - mammals.
 * CJ and Edison encounter more baby animals and their parents. Readers must draw a line between each baby in the first column to its parent in the second column. Then readers are instructed to circle two baby animals that are mammals.

Level 2

 * CJ and Edison encounter a butterfly by a tree. Readers are instructed to look at pictures of a butterfly's life cycle and number them in the correct order.
 * CJ meets one of his frog friends at the pond. CJ's friend tells him about the new babies in his family. Readers are instructed to read sentences describing the life cycle of a frog and write each sentence next to the corresponding picture below. Then readers are prompted to think about what animal the tadpole will grow into and draw a picture of it on a separate piece of paper.
 * CJ's frog friend was hibernating during the winter. Readers must match four animals with pictures of where each animal would hibernate. Then readers are invited to color in the hibernation location pictures.
 * CJ and Edison see geese returning to a pond after migrating during winter. Readers are presented with seven words written on silhouettes of geese. These words are used to complete sentences about migration below. Each sentence has a blank that one of the words matches to.

Level 3

 * CJ and Edison meet Farmer Molly and help her plant seeds. Readers are asked to solve riddles about what the seeds will grow into. Beside each picture of a seed is a description of the plant it turns into, and readers are instructed to write the name of that plant in the blank provided.
 * While CJ and Edison enjoy some apples, they muse on how insects help plants by pollinating them. A series of pictures show how a bee pollinates plants. Readers are asked to draw a line from each picture to the next and read the sentences in order.

Review

 * Readers are presented with a large grid with numbered blank lines in each cell, and a box of words above the grid. To the left is a list of numbered questions. Readers are asked to read each question, find the word in the box that answers the question, and write that word on the corresponding numbered blank in the grid.