Social Studies Curriculum
2nd Grade
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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:
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SS.2.2 |
Students will examine how the government and others play roles within our community. | ||
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Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
Component Code |
Component |
Standard(s) |
| SS.2.2.1 | Define government in order to describe its purpose. | ||
| SS.2.2.2 | Explain what the government does for our community to include making and enforcing laws, protecting citizens, and collecting taxes. | SS.2.CV.1 | |
| SS.2.2.3 | Describe how people of authority in our community are chosen and given responsibilities. | SS.2.CV.1 | |
| SS.2.2.4 | Ask and answer questions about arguments and explanations to illustrate how people in our community work together to accomplish common tasks and share their findings | SS.K-2.IS.5 | |
| SS.2.2.5 | Identify an issue in our community and use listening, consensus-building, and voting procedures to decide on and take action in our classrooms. | SS.K-2.IS.6 | |
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Academic Vocabulary: Explain, construct, reward, consequence, interpret, identify, responsibility, problem, describe, solution, compare, data |
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Content Vocabulary: Government, laws, enforcing, physical safety, rights, vote, distribution, authority, election, majority rule, ballotsfarm, community |