CA Social Studies Standards (Grade 2)

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📌 People Who Make a Difference 13 standards

2.1.1

Trace family history using sources

Trace the history of a family through the use of primary and secondary sources, including artifacts, photographs, interviews, and documents.

2.1.2

Compare daily life across generations

Compare and contrast their daily lives with those of their parents, grandparents, and/or guardians.

2.1.3

Place life events in order

Place important events in their lives in the order in which they occurred (e.g., on a time line or storyboard).

2.2.1

Locate features using a grid system

Locate on a simple letter-number grid system the specific locations and geographic features in their neighborhood or community (e.g., map of the classroom, the school).

2.2.2

Label a map of North America from memory

Label from memory a simple map of the North American continent, including the countries, oceans, Great Lakes, major rivers, and mountain ranges. Identify the essential map elements: title, legend, directional indicator, scale, and date.

2.2.3

Locate where ancestors lived

Locate on a map where their ancestors live(d), telling when the family moved to the local community and how and why they made the trip.

2.2.4

Compare land use across environments

Compare and contrast basic land use in urban, suburban, and rural environments in California.

2.3.1

Explain how laws are made and enforced

Explain how the United States and other countries make laws, carry out laws, determine whether laws have been violated, and punish wrongdoers.

2.3.2

Describe how nations resolve problems

Describe the ways in which groups and nations interact with one another to try to resolve problems in such areas as trade, cultural contacts, treaties, diplomacy, and military force.

2.4.1

Describe food production then and now

Describe food production and consumption long ago and today, including the roles of farmers, processors, distributors, weather, and land and water resources.

2.4.2

Understand buyer-seller interdependence

Understand the role and interdependence of buyers (consumers) and sellers (producers) of goods and services.

2.4.3

Understand resource limits on production

Understand how limits on resources affect production and consumption (what to produce and what to consume).

2.5

Explain how heroes made a difference

Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others' lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride).