Grade 2 Science: Understanding Simulations
This worksheet helps second-grade students understand what simulations are and how they are used to learn about real-world events.
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Understanding Simulations
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. A simulation is when we pretend something is real to learn about it.
1. What is a simulation?
A real event happening right now
A way to pretend something is real to learn from it
A type of drawing
A game you play outside
2. Why do we use simulations?
To make things more difficult
To learn about things that are too big or too small to see
To play with toys
To watch TV
3. A simulation helps us learn about something that is happening in the .
4. Pilots use flight to practice flying airplanes safely.
5. We can use a simulation to see how a volcano might .
6. Playing with toy cars is a type of simulation.
True
False
7. You can only learn from real events, not from simulations.
True
False
8. Give an example of a simulation you have seen or played with. What did you learn from it?
Look at the image below. This child is pretending to fly an airplane. This is a type of simulation.
