Grade 2 Social Studies GSE Standards

Economic Understandings

Government/Civic Understandings

Geographic Understandings

Historical Understandings

Define the concept of government and the need for rules and laws.

Identify the following elected officials of the executive branch and where they work:<ul><li>President (leader of our nation) and Washington, D.C. – White House</li><li>Governor (leader of our state) and Atlanta, GA – State Capitol Building</li><li>Mayor (leader of a city) and city hall</li></ul>

Give examples of how the historical figures in SS2H1 demonstrate positive citizenship traits such as: honesty, dependability, trustworthiness, honor, civility, good sportsmanship, patience, and compassion.

Explain that because of scarcity, people must make choices that result in opportunity costs.

Identify some ways in which goods and services are allocated (such as: price, majority rule, contests, force, sharing, lottery, authority, first-come-first-served, and personal characteristics).

Explain that people usually use money to obtain the goods and services they want and explain how money makes trade easier than barter.

Describe the costs and benefits of personal saving and spending choices.

Locate and compare major topographical features of Georgia and describe how these features define Georgia's surface.

Locate and compare the geographic regions of Georgia: Blue Ridge, Piedmont, Coastal Plain, Ridge and Valley, and Appalachian Plateau.

Locate on a physical map the major rivers: Savannah, Flint, and Chattahoochee.

Describe the cultural and geographic systems associated with the historical figures in SS2H1 and Georgia's Creek and Cherokee in SS2H2.

Identify specific locations significant to the life and times of each historic figure, and the Creek and Cherokee, on a political or physical map.

Describe how each historic figure and the Creek and Cherokee adapted to and were influenced by their environments.

Describe how the region in which these historic figures lived affected their lives and compare these regions to the region in which students live.

Describe the regions in Georgia where the Creek and Cherokee lived and how the people used their local resources.

Describe the lives and contributions of historical figures in Georgia history.<ul><li>James Oglethorpe, Tomochichi, and Mary Musgrove (founding of Georgia)</li><li>Sequoyah (development of a Cherokee alphabet)</li><li>Jackie Robinson (sportsmanship and civil rights)</li><li>Martin Luther King, Jr. (civil rights)</li><li>Juliette Gordon Low (Girl Scouts and leadership)</li><li>Jimmy Carter (leadership and human rights)</li></ul>

Describe the Georgia Creek and Cherokee cultures of the past in terms of tools, clothing, homes, ways of making a living, and accomplishments.

Compare and contrast the Georgia Creek and Cherokee cultures of the past to those of Georgians today.

The student will use maps to retrieve social studies information.

use a compass rose to identify cardinal directions

compare maps of the same place at different points in time and from different perspectives to determine changes, identify trends, and generalize about human activities

compare maps with data sets (charts, tables, graphs) and /or readings to draw conclusions and make generalizations

use geographic technology and software to determine changes, identify trends, and generalize about human activities

use intermediate directions

use a letter/number grid system to determine location

compare and contrast the categories of natural, cultural, and political features found on maps

use graphic scales to determine distances on a map

use map key/legend to acquire information from historical, physical, political, resource, product, and economic maps

use a map to explain impact of geography on historical and current events

draw conclusions and make generalizations based on information from maps

use latitude and longitude to determine location