2^nd Grade Social Studies Curriculum Map

Rattan Elementary

Month	Content	Skills	Assessments	Resources
August	Process Skills Human Characteristics and Communities	*Use children’s literature to compare and contrast one’s own community to others. *Identify the order of events on a simple timeline (holidays, school events, student’s life) *Identify examples of rules in the classrooms and community, and relate the purposes of those rules and the consequences of breaking them. *Provide examples of honesty, courage, patriotism, and other admirable character traits seen in United States history. *Identify examples of rules in the classroom and community, and relate the purposes of those rules and the consequences of breaking them. *Explain and demonstrate good citizenship (obeying classroom rules, taking turns, and showing respect for others and their belongings)	Student participation in classroom discussion Student behavior Teacher observation of students in classroom and outside	Trade books Basal reader Calendar Classroom rule poster Good citizenship posters Computer – internet United Streaming – compter
September	Human Characteristics of Communities	*Study how history involves events and people of other times and places through legends, folktales, and historical accounts (Paul Revere’s Ride, Johnny Appleseed, Betsy Ross, John Henry, and Paul Bunyan)	Student participation in conversations Journals	Trade books Weekly Reader
October	Interaction of the Environment and the People of a Community	*Describe how locations and weather affect the way people live.	Verbal responses	Indian dwelling posters Weekly Reader
November	Human Characteristics of a Community Environment and the People of a Community	*Identify examples of interesting Americans through exposure to biographies of important people of the past. (George Washington, Sacajawea, and Harriet Tubman) *Identify the choices people make about food, clothing, shelter, occupation, transportation, and recreation.	Verbal responses	Resource books Trade books Weekly Reader
December	Basic Economic Elements Found in Communities	*Distinguish between basic needs (food, clothing, and shelter) and wants (luxuries), and explain how needs and wants can be met (earning money, savings, and gifts)	Written evaluation Drawings	Christmas lists
January	Basic Economic Elements found in Communities	*Describe ways people are paid (by check, in cash, and with goods), the places to keep their money safe (the bank), and ways they pay for goods and services (check, cash, credit cards, and barter-trading goods and services)	Basal evaluation	Basal Reader
February
March	Process Skills	*Use information located in resources such as encyclopedias, timelines, visual images, atlases, maps, globes, and computer-based technologies.	Student performance on multiple choice Student performance	Resource books from library Computer
April	Examine Communities from Spatial Perspective	*Name major landmarks in the community; construct simple maps showing some of these landmarks, the roads connecting them, and directional indicators (north, south, east, west), and give titles to the maps (name of the towns) *Describe the landmark and cultural features of the community (historic homes, schools, churches, bridges, parks, and neighborhoods) and compare these with similar features in other parts of the United States. *Identify locations on a basic map, write directions for going from one location to another, and use directional indicators to describe locations on the map using both cardinal and intermediate directions. *Identify basic landforms and bodies of water, the four oceans, the seven continents, human-made features (roads and towns) *Locate and identify the following on a map of the United States: OK, the six surrounding states, the Mississippi River, the Great Lakes Region, the Rocky Mountains, the Applachian Mountains, the Great Plains, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans *Describe the occupations and roles of people in the neighborhood and community who provide goods and services.	Written evaluations Metra daily lessons	Metra Map Lessons Overhead projector Maps Trade books Puppets
May