Grade 2 Social Studies

District 2853

Timelines

Content

Technology Used

Skills for Student Achievement

Assessment

 

6 weeks

·         Geography

 

·         Introduce secondary directions.

·         Recognize purpose and use of maps and globes.

·         Recognize maps as pictures of places on earth.

·         Recognize globes as models of the earth.

·         Recognize map symbols and keys.

·         Recognize large land areas as continents and water areas as oceans.

·         Recognize and use the four cardinal directions on a map and globe, including the compass rose.

·         Locate North Pole, South Pole and Equator on a map and globe.

·         Introduce and recognize the geography vocabulary.

·         Me on the Map project

·         Oral demonstration and discussion

·         Observation

·         Quiz

 

3 weeks

·         Local Government

 

·         Recognize that groups work together, cooperate and share.

·         Define the terms: rules, laws.

·         Realize that rules and laws help people stay safe and get along with each other.

·         Explain that majority rule/voting is an important principle for making group decisions.

·         List important rules for our community and schools.

·         Realize that individuals have a responsibility to communities.

·         Understand that choices have effects on communities.

·         Realize different people react differently to the same event.

·         Oral demonstration and discussion

·         Unit 2 Test

·         Cooperative Groups

(Build a machine to help

      community)

·         Interviews

·         Observation

5 weeks

·         Neighborhoods

·         Internet info/search site finding answers to posed questions on worksheet

·         Recognize that neighborhoods have similarities and differences.

·         Realize that neighborhoods change over time.

·         Realize that neighborhoods vary in size and structure.

·         Know how to live in a community.

·         Learn vocabulary words related to community.

·         Place their neighborhood on a map.

·         Appreciate the community traditions.

·         Recognize that people live in communities both in the U.S. and other places.

·         3-D Model Neighborhood

·         Unit 1 Test

·         Oral demonstration and discussion of each unit

·         Past/Present Pictures

·         Observation

10 weeks

·         History

 

·         Define history as the story of our past.

·         Recognize the American Indians as the first people to live in America.

·         Describe an early community/Jamestown.

·         Virtual tour of Jamestown on Internet.

·         Explain the pioneer/settler movement to establish new communities in the West.

·         Describe and contrast early tribal communities with current tribal communities.

·         Recognize that North American people have their own culture.

·         Understand and produce a timeline.

·         Introduce and use historical vocabulary.

·         Understand where and why immigrants came from.

·         Describe what cultures and traditions they brought with them.

·         Realize that home regions have changed over time.

·         Observation and discussion

·         Unit Test

·         Make their own timeline

·         Venn Diagram

3 weeks

·         Economics

 

·         Recognize that all people have needs and wants.

·         Realize people work to earn money for needs, wants, goods and services.

·         Understand the difference between wants and needs.

·         Define banks as institutions that people use to save money.

·         Define goods as things that are made or grown and are then sold.

·         Define services as jobs people do for others.

·         Define factories as places where goods are produced.

·         Define taxes as money people pay to a community for services.

·         Recognize that people of other countries work for needs, wants, goods and services.

·         Recognize that people are interdependent on one another for goods and services.

·         Observation and discussion

·         Needs/Wants Quiz

·         Unit Test

4 weeks

·         Civics

 

·         Recognize Washington D.C. as our country’s capitol.

·         List  several historic places in America.

·         List several people of historical importance to America.

·         Name several national holidays and what they help us to remember.

·         Recognize the American flag as a symbol of our country.

·         Observation and discussion

·         Unit Test

5 weeks

·         Geography

 

·         Define state capitols as the city where state leaders work.

·         List Minnesota state symbols.

·         Recognize planet earth as our home.

·         Define oceans as large bodies of saltwater.

·         Locate the U.S., Mexico and Canada on a map.

·         Locate the North and South poles and the equator on a globe.

·         Describe major landforms and bodies of water.

·         List several of earth’s natural resources.

·         Observation and discussion

·         State Book

·         Unit Test

·         Clay landform Map

·         Continent/Ocean Quiz

On-going throughout Year

·         Current Events

 

·         Become aware of issues, topics and problems of current events

·         Become aware of ways we learn about current events

·         Scholastic News

·         Group discussion

·         Quiz in issue