Grade 2 Social Studies OLS Standards

Economics

Government

Geography

History

Financial Literacy

Markets

Production and Consumption

Scarcity

Economic Decision Making and Skills

Economics

Rules and Laws

Civic Participation and Skills

Government

Human Systems

Spatial Thinking and Skills

Geography

Heritage

Historical Thinking and Skills

History

Information displayed on bar graphs can be used to compare quantities.

Resources can be used in various ways.

Most people around the world work in jobs in which they produce specific goods and services.

People use money to buy and sell goods and services.

People earn income by working.

Maps and their symbols, including cardinal directions, can be interpreted to answer questions about location of places.

The work that people do is impacted by the distinctive human and physical characteristics in the place where they live.

Human activities alter the physical environment, both positively and negatively.

Cultures develop in unique ways, in part through the influence of the physical environment.

Interactions among cultures lead to sharing ways of life.

Respect for the rights of self and others includes making responsible choices and being accountable for personal actions.

Groups are accountable for choices they make and actions they take.

There are different rules and laws that govern behavior in different settings.

Time can be shown graphically on calendars and timelines.

Change over time can be shown with artifacts, maps, and photographs.

Science and technology have changed daily life.

Biographies can show how peoples' actions have shaped the world in which we live.

Resources can be used in various ways.

Describe why a resource may become unavailable.

Identify when resources are available or unavailable.

Identify who uses specific resources (e.g., students and book companies use paper, landscapers and homeowners use mulch, carpenters, and furniture manufacturers use lumber, etc.).

Identify how specific resources are used in multiple ways (e.g., trees are used for: lumber, paper, mulch, etc.).

Identify local resources (e.g., trees, corn, soybeans, oil, etc.).

Construct a grocery list.

Engage with multi-use products.

Most people around the world work in jobs in which they produce specific goods and services.

Explain why people work in jobs that provide goods or services.

Participate in production of a good or service (e.g., class jobs, assembly line product, etc.).

Match specific jobs with the good(s) or service(s) they provide.

Provide a service to someone in the class, home, or community.

Brainstorm a list jobs/services.

Define services as the act of helping or doing work for someone.

Identify examples of producers within the community.

Define produce as to make, create, assemble, or construct.

Define goods as products/objects people want.

Engage with goods.

People use money to buy and sell goods and services.

Explore that different countries have different types of money.

Make a real or pretend transaction.

Practice using currency in trade for a good or service.

Match the cost of a good or service with currency.

Identify the cost of a specific good or service.

Identify who keeps the money from a sale.

Identify how money is exchanged to sell goods and services.

Identify who gives the money during a purchase.

Explain how money is exchanged to buy goods and services.

Order the steps in making a purchase.

Identify coins and bills as money.

Identify goods and services to purchase.

Engage with money.

Engage with people.

People earn income by working.

Explore careers.

Identify that some earnings can be saved for larger purchases or future spending.

List ways people spend the money they earn by working.

Identify that money is needed to buy wants and needs.

Examine how different jobs earn different amounts of money.

Identify jobs that earn money.

Identify how people get money.

Engage with money.

Engage in work.

Maps and their symbols, including cardinal directions, can be interpreted to answer questions about location of places.

Create a map that includes a key.

Identify that maps can help to answer questions.

Point to/identify a given name/location on a map.

Identify north south east and west on a map.

Identify bodies of water on a map,

Identify land on a map.

Match map key symbols with that it represents on the map.

Identify the map key.

Engage with a map key.

Engage with a map.

The work that people do is impacted by the distinctive human and physical characteristics in the place where they live.

Match specific work to physical characteristics on a map (e.g., farming to open fields, manufacturing to factories, etc.).

Match work to location (e.g., fishing to ocean or lake, building with wood to wooded land, etc.).

Brainstorm a list of work people do in the local area.

Identify characteristics of the local community.

Identify the work of family members or friends.

Engage with people from the local community.

Engage with a photo of where you live.

Human activities alter the physical environment, both positively and negatively.

Sort human changes to the physical environment as positive or negative impact.

Identify way people have changed the physical environment (e.g. construct roads, farm the land, build on land, dump garbage, etc.)

Identify how work may impact the physical environment.

Identify the work people do every day.

Identify how taking food and water from the physical environment may change the environment.

Identify food, clothing, and shelter as coming from the physical environment.

Actively participate in daily routines or activities (e.g., shower/bathe, travel, eat, work, etc.).

Cultures develop in unique ways, in part through the influence of the physical environment.

Discuss how diverse cultural practices change based on different physical environments.

Compare homes, material goods, and jobs from two or more different physical environments.

Link cultural practices to a way of life in a specific location or region.

Describe one or more family traditions based on local seasons.

Identify one or more local foods or material goods based on seasons in a physical environment.

Identify what materials from the local environment were used to build a specific home.

Identify one’s own home style.

Engage with photographs that represent diverse homes.

Respect for the rights of self and others includes making responsible choices and being accountable for personal actions.

Identify personal rights.

Identify demonstrations of respect for others.

Identify consequence for a given choice.

Make responsible choices (e.g., follow rules, take turns, show kindness, etc.).

Identify choices as self-determined.

Identify a situation where a choice can be made (e.g., selecting a game to play, how we interact with others, etc.).

Demonstrate action.

Engage to make a choice.

Groups are accountable for choices they make and actions they take.

Evaluate personal work and the work of the team.

Work together as a group to accomplish a task.

Own responsibility for completing part of the whole in a group task.

Contribute own work and ideas to a group.

Use a system to manage conflict peacefully.

Use a system to organize group work (e.g., set a goal, assign tasks/steps, etc.).

Establish group norms/rules that all members will follow.

Communicate with the group.

Engage with group members.

There are different rules and laws that govern behavior in different settings.

Identify that rules and laws shape behavior.

Match rules to specific settings.

Identify the rules in a given environment (e.g., classroom, home, restaurant, playground, in the car, etc.).

Engage in behaviors that follow the rules in a given setting.

Information displayed on bar graphs can be used to compare quantities.

Compare quantities in a bar graph.

Construct a bar graph.

Populate the bar graph by shading given quantities in each category.

Label bar graph with numbers and categories

Identify quantities and categories from data source.

Select a data source to identify quantities to compare (e.g., number of books read per month, number of snow days per month, weather patterns, etc.).

Identify a bar graph vs. other types of graphs.

Engage with an image of a bar graph.

Interactions among cultures lead to sharing ways of life.

Identify shared cultural practices.

Associate cultural practices with family traditions.

Demonstrate respectful interest in diverse cultural practices.

Identify diverse cultural practices across groups of people from the local community: foods, language, clothing, buildings, the arts and traditions/beliefs. Culture is defined: the learned behavior of a group of people, which includes their belief systems, languages, social relationships, institutions and organizations, and their material goods, such as food, clothing, buildings, tools, and machines.

Identify clothing worn during a special family event vs. every day that have been influenced by the groups’ location (e.g., climate specific, local colors, emblems/icons, etc.).

Identify foods eaten during holiday vs. everyday meals based on local availability.

Engage with people from diverse cultures.

Time can be shown graphically on calendars and timelines.

Use a timeline template to organize three or more events in chronological order.

Identify a timeline vs. other graphic organizers.

Identify important dates (e.g., birthdays, holidays, upcoming events, etc.).

State or write the day’s date.

Identify the year on a calendar.

Name the months of the year in chronological order.

Identify the months of the year on a calendar.

Name the days of the week in chronological order.

Identify the days of the week on a calendar.

Participate in calendar activities.

Engage with an image of a timeline.

Engage with a calendar.

Change over time can be shown with artifacts, maps, and photographs.

Compare photographs of people, places, or events from past and present.

Use photographs to retell about and event or person.

Use a map to describe a location.

Identify a map vs. other graphic.

Engage with maps.

Compare artifacts from both past and present.

Describe artifacts from both past and present.

Engage with artifacts from both past and present.

Engage with photographs of familiar people or events.

Science and technology have changed daily life.

Describe how changes in technology have changed everyday life.

Compare technology for a given topic from past and present (e.g., telephone, cars, maps, etc.).

Describe how science changed a specific technology (e.g., telephone).

Identify technology for a given topic from past and present (e.g., transportation from past and present, communication from past and present, medical care, etc.).

Identify technology tools for specific environment or task.

Engage with technology.

Biographies can show how peoples’ actions have shaped the world in which we live.

Discuss how the actions of individuals can impact the world.

Answer the question: How did this person impact the world?

Match the actions of the person detailed in a given biography as “for the common good” or not.

Identify actions of the person detailed in a given biography.

Identify the person detailed in a given biography.

Identify a biography vs. other genres.

Engage with biographies of familiar people.