Social Studies Curriculum

Grade 2 - Unit 2

• Themes, Understandings And Overarching Essential Questions For This Unit
  
• Specific Essential Questions For This Unit
  
• By The End Of This Unit Students Should Know
  
• By The End Of This Unit Students Should Be Able To
  
• Enrichment Resources

Themes, Understandings And Overarching Essential Questions For This Unit

• Understanding: All people are similar.  All people are different.
• Essential Question: How does our community explain who we are?  (How does culture explain who we are?)

• Understanding: Where we live affects how we live.
• Essential Question: How does where someone lives affect how they live?

Specific Essential Questions For This Unit

• What does living in Long Beach explain about our culture?
• Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving and Martin Luther King Jr. day?

• How are rural, urban, and suburban communities similar and how are they different?
• How does living in Long Beach affect how we live?

By The End Of This Unit Students Should Know

• Key Ideas: Living in Long Beach influences who we are as individuals and as a community. Thanksgiving and Martin Luther King Jr. day are important national holidays.
• Vocabulary: community, commute, neighbor, neighborhood, public transportation, tradition holidays
• Key People and Places: Long Beach, Atlantic Ocean, Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Key Ideas: Rural, urban and suburban communities have both similar and Different characteristics. Long Beach has some urban and some suburban characteristics.
• Vocabulary: agriculture, country, crops, density, downtown, farm, home, livestock, metropolitan area, rural, skyscraper, suburb, subway, urban
• Key Places: NY State, “upstate”, Long Island, NY City

By The End Of This Unit Students Should Be Able To

• Identify the neighborhoods of Long Beach.
• Locate Long Beach, Long Island and New York on a map.
• Explain how their life style is influenced by living in Long Beach, New York.
• Explain the significance of Thanksgiving and Martin Luther King Jr. Day in America.

• Identify the characteristics of rural, urban, and suburban communities.
• Explain how Long Beach can be seen as urban and suburban, but not rural.

Enrichment Resources