Grade 2 • Social Studies What Your Child Will Learn

Grade 2 Social Studies

What Your Child Will Learn

Each of the quarters is organized to help answer a compelling question that ties the unit together.  Listed below are the compelling questions for each unit along with the major concepts for each lesson.


Cooperation in a democracy

  • Leaders and their roles
  • Equity and fairness
  • Problem solving
  • Communicating ideas
  • Role of the government
  • Symbols of the US

Connecting our World

  • Map reading
  • Physical and Human-made features
  • Sharing ideas and goods near and far
  • Civic engagement

Change over Time

  • Timelines
  • Changes in goods over time
  • Life long ago and today
  • Technology and transportation over time
  • Multiple perspectives
  • People and the environment

Choices

  • Production of goods and services
  • Meeting economic needs
  • Scarcity and opportunity cost
  • Setting financial goals

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