Social Studies Curriculum

2nd Grade

Course Purpose:

 Students will examine parts of their society and develop comparisons to other places in order to determine their role in their families, neighborhood, and community.

Outcomes and Components:

SS.2.1

 Students will analyze communities in order to compare and contrast their own community with others

Pacing  

Instruct/

Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)
  SS.2.1.1

Use print and digital maps, globes, and other simple

geographic models to identify cultural

and environmental characteristics of both familiar and unfamiliar

places.

 SS.2.G.1
  SS.2.1.2 Describe cultural and environmental characteristics of our community and compare them to other regions. . SS.2.G.2
  SS.2.1.3

Describe the connections between the physical environment of a place and the economic activities found there.

 SS.2.G.3

Academic Vocabulary: explain, construct, interpret, describe, compare,

Content Vocabulary: map, compass rose, cardinal directions, culture, needs and wants, scale,