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.2.2

 Students will examine how the government and others play roles within our community.

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

Academic Vocabulary: Explain, construct, reward, consequence, interpret, identify, responsibility, problem, describe, solution, compare, data

Content Vocabulary: Government, laws, enforcing, physical safety, rights, vote, distribution, authority, election, majority rule, ballotsfarm, community