This book has bright, bold pictures and nice big lettering for kids. What makes this book great is that it encourages exploration and curiosity by giving the reader activities to do along the way. This book will help meet the physical science standard for second grade.

This book has fun investigations for your child to do on every page. Not only does this book teach your child to look at the world around them but encourages them to be hands on. This book is great for the classrooom when teaching about simple machines.

Written by teacher this book is sure to be a teachers favorite. This is a go to book when looking for simple experiments to do with your class. It introduces some key concepts in a fun hands-on way. The photographs also are great in making the students realize that these are simple machines you use in real life.

How Do You Lift a Lion is a good introduction to simple machines and the use of levers, pulleys, and wheels. The author introduces some basic vocabulary while explaining how to lift a lion. This book may be better for your more advanced reader.

This book addresses how machines are used to apply pushes and pulls to make things move. Nice big photographs are attractive to the reader and its an easy read for second graders.

An Egg is Quiet is a great book when teaching about the life cycle of different animals. This book has everything you would want to know about eggs and then some. Would be great to read along with A Seed is Sleepy.

From the series, Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science this book is kid friendly with colorful illustrations and nice big print. The information is age appropriate with some challenging vocabulary.

This wonderful book is not just informative but students will love to read the silly rhyming poems. They will learn all about the life cycle of a toad and follow them on their seasonal journey. Try having the students make-up their own toad poems.

Another great book from Wendy Pfeffer. She just has an ease about her writing that explains difficult concepts in a kid-friendly way. From Tadpole to Frog explains the life cycle of the frog throughout the seasons as well as giving information about different types of frogs at the end.

This is such a beautiful book with such a great story. Probably better suited for an advanced reader in second grade. The story educates the students about the life and death of the great oak tree and how its life affects other animals.

What I love about these books is how they are set up. The table of contents lists all the questions that are answered throughout the book. This book is really helpful when teaching about the life cycle of different animals. Your students are sure to grab this book and not want to put it down.

If You Find a Rock is a good book to use as an introduction to rocks. It's an easy read with beautiful photographs that will inspire your students to think about all the different types of rocks.

This book is best when read aloud to the class. Each page has so much fun and interesting information about mountains and how they are formed. The book also touches on fossils which is a good tie in to a lesson on that. The book also tackles some advanced topics like plate tectonics and the layers of the earth. Really educational and fun book.

This book is a great compliment tot the Rocks book. Part of the Amazinf Science series this book is easy to understand and makes children want to learn more. The reading level is for your more advanced second grader.