Social Studies Curriculum

Grade 2 - Unit 3

• 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 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

• Why do we celebrate President’s Day?

• How does where someone lives in the U.S.A. affect how they live?

By The End Of This Unit Students Should Know

• Key Ideas: President’s Day is an important national holiday.
• Vocabulary: holiday
• Key People and Places: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Washington D.C.

• Key Ideas: The geography and environment of where someone lives affects their lifestyle and culture. People who live in different geographic regions have both similar and different lifestyles and cultures.
• Vocabulary: climate, compass rose, desert, environment, equator, geography, globe, hill, island, key/legend, lake, landform, map, mountain, ocean, plains, river, symbol, valley, vegetation
• Key Places: 7 continents, 5 oceans, U.S.A.

By The End Of This Unit Students Should Be Able To

• Explain the significance of President’s Day.

• Identify continents, oceans, landforms and bodies of water.
• Effectively utilize map skills.
• Explain how the lifestyle of a community will be influenced by its geographic location and features.

Enrichment Resources