Government Standards
California State Standards
Social Studies - Grade 2
Assessment Exam - CA Social Studies - Grade 2| Social Studies | eTAP Lesson |
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| People Who Make a Difference | |
| Trace the history of a family through the use of primary and secondary sources, including artifacts, photographs, interviews, and documents.
CA.SS.2.1.1 |
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| Compare and contrast their daily lives with those of their parents, grandparents, and/or guardians.
CA.SS.2.1.2 |
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| Place important events in their lives in the order in which they occurred (e.g., on a time line or storyboard).
CA.SS.2.1.3 |
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| Locate on a simple letter-number grid system the specific locations and geographic features in their neighborhood or community (e.g., map of the classroom, the school).
CA.SS.2.2.1 |
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| Label from memory a simple map of the North American continent, including the countries, oceans, Great Lakes, major rivers, and mountain ranges. Identify the essential map elements: title, legend, directional indicator, scale, and date.
CA.SS.2.2.2 |
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| Locate on a map where their ancestors live(d), telling when the family moved to the local community and how and why they made the trip.
CA.SS.2.2.3 |
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| Compare and contrast basic land use in urban, suburban, and rural environments in California.
CA.SS.2.2.4 |
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| Explain how the United States and other countries make laws, carry out laws, determine whether laws have been violated, and punish wrongdoers.
CA.SS.2.3.1 |
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| Describe the ways in which groups and nations interact with one another to try to resolve problems in such areas as trade, cultural contacts, treaties, diplomacy, and military force.
CA.SS.2.3.2 |
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| Describe food production and consumption long ago and today, including the roles of farmers, processors, distributors, weather, and land and water resources.
CA.SS.2.4.1 |
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| Understand the role and interdependence of buyers (consumers) and sellers (producers) of goods and services.
CA.SS.2.4.2 |
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| Understand how limits on resources affect production and consumption (what to produce and what to consume).
CA.SS.2.4.3 |
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| Understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others’ lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride).
CA.SS.2.5 |
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