Second Grade Social Studies Content Standards

• Second grade students are expected to:
  • Compare and contrast events that happened long ago and today
    • Understand the concept of immigration
    • Trace family history through the use of primary and secondary sources
    • Compare their daily lives with those of parents and grandparents
    • Create a timeline/storyboard depicting important events in their lives
  • Utilize map skills to describe locations of people, places and environments
    • Use coordinates to locate places in their community (e.g. map of classroom, school, town)
    • Label a simple map of the North American continent (e.g. countries, oceans, Great Lakes, major rivers, and mountain ranges)
    • Identify title, legends, directional indicators, scale and date on a map
    • Locate their ancestor’s place of origin on a map
    • Compare and contrast California land use in urban, suburban, and rural land area
  • Understand basic practices of government
    • Understand the concept of laws, their effects and consequences
    • Discuss the ways in which groups and nations interact and resolve problems
  • Understand how our economic system works today and long ago
    • Study how natural and human resources affect the supply and production of food
    • Discuss the interdependence of consumers, producers, processors and distributors
  • Understand history’s impact
    • Explore how the experiences of extraordinary persons in history have impacted their own and other peoples’ lives. (i.e., biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Jackie Robinson, and Sally Ride)

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