Grade 2- Resources

Civics

2.CI.1 Differentiate civic virtues from civic
responsibilities, then evaluate their role
in communities.

1. Identify civic virtues and civic responsibilities.

2. Discuss how common civic virtues among citizens help create peaceful and
orderly communities.

3. Compare civic responsibilities to responsibilities of home and school.

Kid Citizen Episode: Community Helpers

Unidentified soldier with banjo, sword, and pipe

Unidentified soldier with over the shoulder saxhorn

Envelope showing drummer boy in front of American flag

Unidentified solder with wife and daughters holding saxhorn

“Be my mother ’till I die”

“Bless the lips that kissed our darling”

Unidentified corporal with viola

2.CI.2 Assess how rules and laws are created
to provide equal and fair service and
protection to all citizens.

1. Discuss importance of fair rules and laws applied to all citizens.

2. Analyze the fairness of rules and laws.

3. Identify who is responsible for creating and enforcing rules and laws.

4. Discuss how laws are fairly created and fairly enforced to protect all the
citizens of a community (e.g., civil rights, laws to protect Americans with
disabilities, etc.).

The Constitution – Primary Source Set

Symbols of the United States – Primary Source Set

Kid Citizen Episode: Kids in Action (Coming Soon)

Economics

2.E.2 Assess the relationship between
consumers and producers in obtaining
goods and services to meet needs.

1. Define consumers and producers.

2. Differentiate consumers from producers.

3. Examine the interdependence of consumers and producers.

4. Discuss the connection between resources and producers in the local
community.

5. Define barter system and monetary system.

6. Compare and contrast the barter and monetary systems of trade to meet needs

The Industrial Revolution in the United States – Primary Source Set

Geography

2.G.1 Analyze various types of maps.

1. Categorize map types by representation and usage (e.g., topographic, physical, political, thematic, etc.).

2. Identify political and physical borders in the United States and across the globe.

3. Define urban, suburban, and rural.

4. Locate urban, suburban, and rural areas in Mississippi and United States

Maps From the World Digital Library – Primary Source Set

Kid Citizen Episode: A Bird’s Eye View: Wondering with Maps

2.G.2 Examine the connection between
physical features of the Earth and
where people choose to live.

1. Define human settlements and population distribution.

2. Evaluate human settlements and population distribution around physical
features of the Earth.

3. Determine reasons for human settlement near physical features of the Earth.

Westward Expansion: Encounters at a Cultural Crossroads – Primary Source Set

“The Cost of the Drought”

Buried farm machinery, Oklahoma

2.G.3 Interpret maps using latitude and
longitude.

1. Define latitude and longitude.

2. Locate the major lines of latitude and longitude of the Earth.

3. Identify then compare hemispheres of the Earth.

Maps from the world Digital Library – Primary Source Set

History

2.H.1 Evaluate how people and events have
shaped the local community, state, and
nation through primary sources.

1. Identify various primary sources (e.g., Primary – letters, diaries,
autobiographies, speeches, interviews; Secondary – magazine articles,
textbooks, encyclopedia entries, biographies, etc.).

2. Use various primary sources to investigate significant people and events of the past.

3. Examine historical events from multiple perspectives by utilizing primary sources.

Kid Citizen Episode: What are Primary Sources?

Abraham Lincoln: Rise to National Prominence – Primary Source Set

Alexander Hamilton – Primary Source Set

Rosa Parks – Primary Source Set

World War I – Primary Source Set

Dust Bowl Migration – Primary Source Set

2.H.2 Examine the relationship between
history and time.

1. Identify vocabulary to express periods of time.

2. Illustrate events chronologically on a timeline.

3. Compare and contrast the eras of United States history.