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.2.4

Students will assess the role of money in our community and compare local goods and services to other communities.

Pacing  

Instruct/

Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

  SS.2.4.1 Demonstrate how our choices can affect ourselves and others in positive and negative ways.  SS.2.EC.1
  SS.2.4.2 Justify the role of money in making exchange easier within our community.  SS.2.EC.2
  SS.2.4.3 Explain that money can be saved or spent on goods and services. SS.2.EC.FL.4
  SS.2.4.4 Compare the goods and services that people in our community produce and those that are produced in other communities.   SS.2.EC.3

Academic Vocabulary: Positive, negative, compare, justify, produce, community

Content Vocabulary: Flow Chart, choices, affect, save, spend, goods, services, money, exchange