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Grade 2 · Social Studies
22 lessons from the family edition’s 36 weeks, with 17 standards targets.
One of your Grade 2 books
Lessons
Each lesson shows its standards. The buttons open the history reading on that week’s page.
Unit 1 · Mapping land and water
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Standards
- 2.2I can distinguish exact and relative locations.
- 2.2.1I can locate community places and geographic features on a simple map.
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- 2.2.2I can label North America countries, oceans, Great Lakes, major rivers and ranges from memory; identify map elements.
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Lesson 3 · Different places with shared needs
Book p. 22–25
Family week 4 · California places and living neighborsStandards
- 2.2.4I can compare California rural, urban and suburban land uses.
- 2.2.1I can locate community places and geographic features on a simple map.
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Lesson 4 · Maps help people solve problems
Book p. 26–30
Family week 6 · Keep the model path in placeStandards
- 2.2I can distinguish exact and relative locations.
Unit 2 · Families and living things
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Standards
- 2.1I can distinguish long ago from the recent past.
- 2.1.1I can use family interviews, photos, artifacts and documents to learn family history.
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Standards
- 2.1.2I can compare the learner’s life with older family members or guardians.
- 2.1.3I can order significant life events on a timeline or storyboard.
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- 2.2.3I can map ancestors’ places and explain how the family came to its community.
- 2.1.1I can use family interviews, photos, artifacts and documents to learn family history.
- 2.1.2I can compare the learner’s life with older family members or guardians.
- 2.1.3I can order significant life events on a timeline or storyboard.
Unit 3 · Making and exchanging
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- 2.4I can use economic reasoning and explain the learner’s role in the economy.
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- 2.4.2I can distinguish consumer buyers from producer sellers.
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- 2.4.1I can trace food production and the roles of farmers, processors, distributors, weather, land and water.
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- 2.4I can use economic reasoning and explain the learner’s role in the economy.
- 2.4.3I can explain how limited resources affect production and consumption.
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- 2.4I can use economic reasoning and explain the learner’s role in the economy.
- 2.4.1I can trace food production and the roles of farmers, processors, distributors, weather, land and water.
- 2.4.2I can distinguish consumer buyers from producer sellers.
- 2.4.3I can explain how limited resources affect production and consumption.
Unit 4 · Signals and shared decisions
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Standards
- 2.3I can compare United States and another country’s government institutions and practices.
- 2.3.1I can compare making, carrying out and applying laws and consequences in two countries.
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- 2.3.2I can describe how groups and nations cooperate on shared problems.
Unit 5 · Change and care
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Standards
- 2.5I can explain how people in the distant and recent past helped change other lives.
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Lesson 16 · Trees and people together
Book p. 96–99
Family week 28 · Wangari Maathai grew a movementStandards
- 2.5I can explain how people in the distant and recent past helped change other lives.
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- 2.3.2I can describe how groups and nations cooperate on shared problems.
Unit 6 · Our evidence museum
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Standards
- 2.2I can distinguish exact and relative locations.
- 2.2.2I can label North America countries, oceans, Great Lakes, major rivers and ranges from memory; identify map elements.
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Standards
- 2.1.1I can use family interviews, photos, artifacts and documents to learn family history.
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Standards
- 2.1I can distinguish long ago from the recent past.
- 2.1.3I can order significant life events on a timeline or storyboard.
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Standards
- 2.3.2I can describe how groups and nations cooperate on shared problems.
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Lesson 22 · The label that needed a question mark
Book p. 129–133
Family week 36 · Open the evidence museumStandards
- 2.1.3I can order significant life events on a timeline or storyboard.
- 2.2.2I can label North America countries, oceans, Great Lakes, major rivers and ranges from memory; identify map elements.
Grade 2 · Social Studies · Our Shared World
Standards checklist
I Can wording is paraphrased from the CPA I Can checklist. Mark each target from the child’s actual work. A completed page is not automatic mastery.
Past and Present
Locations
Government
Economics
Heroes
Broad category targets may need evidence from several lessons.
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