Social Studies Curriculum

Grade 2 - Unit 4

• 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: All cultures and people have some things in common and some things that are different.
• Essential Questions: How are we similar?  How are we different?

• Understanding: Our past helps us to understand how we live today. Our present affects how we and others will live in the future.
• Essential Questions: How does the past influence the present and the future?

Specific Essential Questions For This Unit

• Why do we celebrate Memorial Day and Independence Day?

• How and why do communities change over time?
• Why do communities need each other?

• How and why do communities change over time?
• Why do communities need each other?

By The End Of This Unit Students Should Know

• Key Ideas: Memorial Day and Independence Day are important holidays.
• Vocabulary: memorial, veteran, soldier, hero, independence

• Key Ideas: Communities change over time. The past influences the present, and the present influences the future. Communities are interdependent.
• Vocabulary: change, community, era, future, interdependent, past, present,  services, timeline

• Key Ideas: Communities change over time.
• The past influences the present, and the present influences the future. Communities are interdependent.
• Vocabulary: change, community, era, future, interdependent, past, present,  services, timeline

By The End Of This Unit Students Should Be Able To

• Explain the significance of Memorial Day and Independence Day.

• Identify how and why communities change over time.
• Explain interdependence between and among communities.
• Create a timeline.
• Explain how a past event influenced the present.

• Identify how and why communities change over time.
• Explain interdependence between and among communities.
• Create a timeline.
• Explain how a past event influenced the present.

Enrichment Resources