This short 20 minute video is well-done and engaging for young students in the 2nd grade. The video uses a well paced voice-over, interesting images, highlights vocabulary, and recaps of "what we learned so far". It starts out with "what matter is", "what properties are", and "what properties we can sense using sight, smell, hearing and touch". It has a great pace. At the eighth minute, the video discusses mass, weight, volume and density, which might be skipped over for 2nd grade. At the 17 minutes, the video goes into the states of matter, but includes gases, which is a concept beyond the performance expectation.
The video comes with an accompanying teacher resource guide (the guide is not reviewed as part of the resource).
http://www.libraryvideo.com/guides/K7112.pdf mscssid=LTEJ3TR54TQF8KG5LR01189EH8G2FLQ7