Guy Simmons, Cara McGrane, Anna Schmidt

Grade 2 Curriculum Map

Quarter 1
Citizenship and Government
National Themes
6. Power, Authority and Governance

State Bench Mark

2.1.1.1.1 Demonstrate voting skills, identify rules that keep a voting process fair, and explain why voting is important. 2.1.2.2.1 Explain the importance of constitutions. 2.1.4.8.1 Compare and contrast student rules, rights and responsibilities at school with their rules, rights and responsibilities at home; explain the importance of obeying rules.

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Lesson Plan Ideas

Read Duck for President by Doreen Cronin as a review for voting unit. The Center for Civic Education's 2nd Grade lesson for Constitution Day Study of student council canidates- what were their platforms and plans. Discuss leaders and rules at home and at school. How do rules keep us safe? How do the ideas
of student coucil canidates reflect that?

Rights, Rules, Constitution and Voting

10. Civic Ideals and Practices

History
2. Time, Continuity, & Change 2.4.1.1.1 Use and create calendars to identify days, weeks, months, years, and semester; use and create timelines to chronicle personal, school, community or world events. Calendars & Timelines Guided discovery of a calendar. Compare and contrast calendar and timeline. Put events from a period of time on a timeline as a class.

Quarter 2
Geography
National Themes State Bench Mark
2.3.1.1.1 Create sketch to illustrate detailed spatial information about settings from stories; describe the spatial information found on the maps.

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3. People, Places and Environments Maps &Geography

Global Twister Game. I have who has geography game. Geography Bingo game. Paint pumpkins as globes. Geography Fact cards. Passport- Fiarcircle.com. Paper dolls

Guy Simmons, Cara McGrane, Anna Schmidt 2.3.1.1.2 Locate key features on a map or globe; use cardinal directions to describe the relationship between two or more features. 2.3.1.1.3 Use maps, photos or other geographic tools to identify and locate major landmarks or major physical features of the United States. 2.3.1.1.4 Use maps, photos or other geographic tools to answer basic questions about where people are located. 2.3.4.9.1 Identify causes and consequences of human impact on the environment and ways that the environment influences people. Maps &Geography

3. People, Places and Environments

Global Twister Game. I have who has geography game. Geography Bingo game. Paint pumpkins as globes. Geography Fact cards. Passport- Fiarcircle.com. Paper dolls from around the world - Education.com . Map Puzzles.

1. Culture

Quarter 3
Economics
National Themes State Bench Mark
2.2.1.1.1 Econonmic Reasoning Skills Given a goal and several alternative choices to reach that goal, select the best choice and why. 2.2.3.3.1 Describe the trade-offs of a decision; descirbe the opportunity cost of a choice as the next best alternative which was not schosen 7. Production, Distribution, and Consumption Economics 2.2.3.5.1 Classify materials that come from nature as natural resources(or raw materials); tools, equipment and factories as capital resources, and workers as human resources

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Take Charge America Grade 2 lesson plan called Scarity and Choice Take Charge America Grade 2 lesson Plan called Making Choices, Econedlink lesson called Everyday Opportunities, Econedlink lesson Toys for me: A Lesson on Choice Tortillia Factory Lesson plan from James Madison Center for Economics Education.(may need slight modification for this age group), The Goat in the Rug lesson from EcEdWeb, Econedlink Human Resources, Captital Resources it's a Match lesson plan

Guy Simmons, Cara McGrane, Anna Schmidt 2.2.3.5.2 Identify Money as any generally accepted item used in making exchanges

Econedlink 2nd grade lesson The Changing face of Money.

Geography
2.3.4.9.1 Identify causes and consequences of human impact on the 3. People, Places, and Enviroments environment and ways that the enviroment influences people Economics Read The Lorax then break into groups for centers with different activities: poster campaign, create an Earth Day collage, Earth Day trivia, planting a seed.

Quarter 4
History
National Themes State Bench Mark
2.4.1.1.1 Use and create calendars to identify days, weeks, months, years, and semesters; use and create timelines to chronicle personal, school, community or world events. 2.4.1.2.1 Use historical records and artifacts to describe how people's lives have changed over time 2.4.2.4.1 Compare and contrast daily life for Minnesota Dakota or Anishinaabe peoples in different times, including before European contact and today 2.4.2.4.2 Describe how the culture of a community reflects the history, daily life or beliefs of its people

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2. Time, Continuity, & Change

Guided discovery of a calendar. Compare and contrast calendar and timeline. Put events from a period of time on a timeline as a class. Native Americans Basic study of the MN tribe then create the profile of a typical Dakota/ Anishinaabe child now and of the past. Create same profile for themselves (responsibilities, education, place in community). Discuss differences and similarities and the reasons for them.

3. People, places, and environments

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