Social Studies - Grade 2
I. People and Places: Groups in a Neighborhood
A. Working Together
1. Planning: Help a Helping Group
2. Play: Making Others Welcome
3. Skit: Music or Madness
4. Newspaper: Home and School
B. Finding Common Interests
1. Graph: Groups
2. Questionnaire: A New Club
3. Maps: Neighborhoods
4. Story: Resolving Problems
5. Letter: Moving to a New Community
C. Strengthening Each Other
1. Map: Giant Community Map
2. Display: Different Communities
II. Celebrations: Communities Honor the Past
A. Inspire Others
1. Calendar: Special Days
2. Report: Fireworks
3. Play: American Revolution
4. Cartoon: Prejudice Then and Now
5. Storybook: Overcoming Prejudice
6. Game: What Holiday Am I?
7. Interview: Veteran
8. Holiday Celebration: Honor a Bible Hero
9. Display: History of US Flags
B. Cultural Pride
1. Research: Jewish Holiday
2. Recipes: Christmas Cookie Cookbook
3. Report: Passover
III. Earning and Spending: Interdependent Communities
A. Doing Different Jobs
1. Advertisement: Seasonal Merchandise
2. Pictographs: Earning Money
3. Bulletin Board: Popular Careers
B. Depending on Each Other
1. Flowchart: Ten Jobs from One
2. Pictures: Before and After Industry
3. Collection: World Products
4. Assembly Line: Classroom Factory
5. Report: Investment Project
6. Report: Classroom Store
IV. Government: Communities Maintain Order
A. Rules and Organization
1. Analyze: Dodgeball Rules
2. Chart: How Community Laws are Made
3. Play: Class Without Rules
4. Project: Rewriting the Ten Commandments
5. Lists: Reasons for Rules
B. Accepting Responsibility
1. Rewritten Excuses: "It's Not My Fault!"
2. Guest Speaker: Who Pays Your Teacher?
3. Report: Civil Disobedience
C. Services People Need
1. Categorize: Community Service Workers
2. Newspaper Article: Community Service Workers
3. Planning: Honor Your School Workers
V. Communities of the Past: Growth and Change
A. Respecting Individuality
1. Recipes: Spanish / Mexican Food
2. Celebration: Pinata Party
3. Report: Native Americans in Pictures
4. Letter: Rethink the American Revolution
5. Report: Thanksgiving Day
6. Map: Plan a New Town
7. Report: Where Should I Live?
B. Change and Conflict
1. Story: Native Americans and the Missions
2. Play: Spanish Missionaries
3. Diary: Mayflower Experience
4. Comic Strip: Boston Tea Party
C. Past Contributes to Change
1. Display: Where Did That Name Come From?
2. Illustrations: George Washington, A Good Leader
3. Map: Touring Washington D.C.
4. Maps: Changes to My Community
VI. Communities Around the World: Similarities and Differences
A. Respecting Individuality
1. Pictures: Comparing Communities
2. Game: Sport of Another Country
3. Model: Japanese Garden
4. Poetry: Japanese Haiku
5. Display: The Perfect Bed
6. Research: The Art of Karate
B. Location Matters
1. Display: Clothing Around the World
2. Poster: House Design
3. Book: First Colonists in Columbia
4. Map: Different Land Different Jobs
5. Report: Trade With Japan
6. Poster: Caffeine or No Caffeine?
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