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Social Studies Essential Standards

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SECOND GRADE

Exploring Our Nation and World: People and Places

Students will:

1. Compare features of modern-day living to those of the past.

Examples: past—shopping in general stores, attending frontier

schools in one-room buildings;

present—shopping in national chain superstores,

attending contemporary schools with multiple

classrooms

Objective 2.1.1: Compare families of today with families of the past

in relation to work, home, and school.

Additional content to be taught:

• Using vocabulary to describe segments of time

Examples: year, decade, century

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2. Identify past and present contributions of a variety of individuals

who have overcome difficulties or obstacles to achieve goals.

Examples: Abraham Lincoln rising from poverty and achieving

position of President of the United States, Heather

Whitestone coping with hearing loss and achieving title of

Miss America, Nat “King” Cole struggling with

segregation and becoming a world-renowned singer,

Arthur George (A. G.) Gaston overcoming lack of

completion of high school education and becoming

exceptional businessman and developer and owner of one

of the largest African-American businesses in the United

States, Nelson Mandela confronting apartheid and

receiving the Nobel Peace Prize

Objective 2.2.1: Describe what it means to overcome difficulties or

obstacles.

Objective 2.2.2: Identify an individual who has overcome

difficulties or obstacles.

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3. Discuss historical and current events within the state and the nation

that are recorded in a variety of resources.

Examples: interviews with grandparents, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s

“I Have a Dream” speech, video of Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon,

newspaper reports of current elections, video about

Sheyann Webb and her involvement in Selma’s voting

rights

Objective 2.3.1: List ways to document historical and current events.

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4. Discuss celebrations in the United States and around the world.

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Examples: Children’s Day in Japan, Veterans Day in the United

States, Bastille Day in France, Cinco de Mayo in Mexico,

New Year celebrations in China

Objective 2.4.1: Identify celebrations in which your family

participates.

Objective 2.4.2: Identify celebrations in communities and cities

throughout Alabama.

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5. Explain the relationship between the production and distribution

processes.

Examples: tracing milk supply from production on the farm to

grocery stores and to consumers, tracing the

manufacturing of technological components in other

countries to consumers in the United States

Objective 2.5.1: Identify examples of production and distribution.

Examples: production —constructing automobiles on plant

assembly lines, preparing hamburgers at fast

food restaurants;

distribution—shipping via trucking companies,

railways, United States Postal Service

Additional content to be taught:

• Discussing the impact of consumer choices and decisions

Example: cost of buying and caring for a pet

• Making informed decisions about borrowing and saving

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6. Identify human-made and natural resources in the world.

Examples: human-made—paper,

natural—crude oil

Objective 2.6.1: Identify human-made and natural resources in

Alabama.

Objective 2.6.2: Compare natural resources in Alabama to natural

resources in the United States and in the world.