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.

Level 1

 * CJ and Edison are surrounded by farm-grown fruits and vegetables. Readers are prompted to think about how the sun is essential for growing food. A silhouette of a barn contains several words. These words are used to fill in the blanks for several sentences about the sun and different parts of plants. Once all of the sentences have been completed, certain letters will have numbers beneath them. Writing these letters in set of numbered blanks at the bottom of the page will reveal a secret message.
 * CJ and Edison come across a cow. Readers must look at a set of pictures that show how we get milk from cows and number the pictures in the correct order.

Level 2

 * CJ and Edison find a table with tons of food that are high in sugar and fat. Readers are shown several pictures of sweet or fatty foods and are prompted to write the names of the foods in the blanks provided.
 * CJ and Edison have some snacks while relaxing on a haystack. Readers are shown various dairy and protein foods and are instructed to write the names of those foods in alphabetical order. Once all of the names have been completed, certain letters will have numbers beneath them. Writing these letters in set of numbered blanks at the bottom of the page will reveal how many servings of these types of foods to eat per day.
 * Next, readers must look at various fruits and vegetables and match each fruit or vegetable to the sentence that describes it.
 * Then readers must solve a word search puzzle with the names of various foods in the grains food group. Afterwards, the letters in the word search that were not circled can be used to fill in the blanks below the puzzle to reveal a message.

Level 3

 * CJ and Edison come across various farm animals that are exercising and not exercising. Readers are instructed to circle all of the animals that are exercising. Then readers are prompted to draw a picture of themselves doing their favorite type of exercise and circle the body part that is used the most in that activity.
 * CJ exercises in various ways. Readers are prompted to circle the body part(s) that CJ uses the most in each type of exercise.

Review

 * CJ and Edison have a tractor race with Farmer Molly. The race course is like a board game. Readers are prompted to invite a friend to play with them. Players should each use a coin as a marker, then take turns rolling a dice and moving their coin that many spaces across the board. When a player lands on a space, the player should read the question in that space. If the player answers that question correctly, then the player receives the number of points written on the space. After both players go around the board twice, the player with the most points wins.

Level 1

 * CJ and Edison come across a pond. Readers are prompted to solve a word puzzle that contains names of various bodies of water by coloring in all of the squares with the letters h, j, and p, then writing the remaining letters on the blank spaces.
 * Readers are instructed to read sentences describing various landforms and then match the sentences to the correct pictures.

Level 2

 * CJ and Farmer Molly go for a swim. Readers are instructed to use the words in a box to fill in sentences about different ways people use water.
 * Farmer Molly tells CJ and Edison about various ways people use land. Readers are provided with four words and must finish Molly's sentences by writing the words in the right blanks.
 * CJ and Edison relax in the sun. Readers are instructed to fill in the blanks to sentences about the sun. Each blank has a letter of the Braille alphabet above it, and a key shows which letter correlates to each Braille symbol.
 * CJ and Farmer Molly get caught in the rain. Readers can lead them back to the barn by tracing a path with pictures and sentences depicting the water cycle.

Level 3

 * CJ and Farmer Molly start preparing for a picnic. There is a table covered with used things. Readers are prompted to color in all of things, and then put an X on something they have recycled recently.
 * Readers must match various kinds of trash to the pictures that show how those items could be reused or recycled.

Review

 * CJ and Edison's adventure at the farm has come to an end. Readers are instructed to crack a code that shows what they learned. There are several words in a box that can be used to complete sentences. Once all of the sentences have been completed, certain letters will have numbers beneath them. Writing these letters in set of numbered blanks on the next page reveals a secret message CJ and Edison sent to Molly and her farm animal friends.