2nd+Grade+Common+Core+SS+Resources

To navigate this page, any available resources will appear as links below the Content Expectation. Please contact david.johnson@wmisd.org if you have a public domain resource which could be linked to one of these standards.

Vocabulary: The attached vocabulary list came from the Michigan Citizenship Collaborative Curriculum and should be covered throughout the course of the year if you're following the MC3 units. "I Can" Statements The attached "I Can" statements were developed during the Wexford-Missaukee Intermediate School District curriculum review for Social Studies.

Common Core Writing Examples from Mason Lake Oceana ISD's Social Studies Network.

Common Core (College and Career Readiness Standards) for content literacy in Social Studies (through ELA standards)

There are Northern Michigan Learning Consortium Assessments available for some of these units. Please click here to learn more about how to access them.

//1 - G2.0.1:// Distinguish between physical (e.g., clouds, trees, weather) and human (e.g., buildings, playgrounds, sidewalks) characteristics of places.
**RESOURCE: Bens Guide to your Neighborhood** //Use this resource to learn a little more about communities as a whole, then have students compare and contrast what they've learned here with their own community. What is alike and different? They could write about this and hit Writing Standard 2. Talking about the who, what, where, when, and why (who works here?) would help hit Informational Text Standard 1.// //If unable to follow this activity completely (no field trips out of the school) students could brainstorm a list of the major places in their community, then choose one off them to write about as a "tour guide". This would help hit CCRS Writing Standard 8.//
 * [[image:nmlcss/resource.jpg]]RESOURCE: There's No Place Like Home**

//2 - G2.0.1:// Compare the physical and human characteristics of the local community with those of another community.
**RESOURCE:** [|Places in my Community] //To satisfy this GLCE follow the lesson plan instructions but add in pictures of a secondary community. Informational Text standard 7 fits this lesson.//

//2 - G4.0.2:// Describe the means people create for moving people, goods, and ideas within the local community.
**RESOURCE: [|Blue Sky]** //This resource from Learning to Give is a good one to assess student knowledge of their own community. Completion of this activity can hit this GLCE, as well as Writing Standards 5, 6, 7, and 8.//

//2 - C1.0.1:// Explain why people form governments.
====//This page starts off with a small description of why we need a government, but then allows you to navigate through a virtual town and learn more about the various government buildings you might see. Students may play with this site, OR, teacher can guide practice. Either way, discussing this hits Reading Standard 1, describing what the pictures are saying and how they relate back to the overall idea will help hit Informational Text Standard 7. Writing an informative text in which they outline why we need government can hit writing standard 2.//====
 * [[image:resource.jpg width="NaN" height="NaN"]]RESOURCE: PBS Kids Go!**

**//2 - C1.0.1:// Explain why people form governments.**
====//This page starts off with a small description of why we need a government, but then allows you to navigate through a virtual town and learn more about the various government buildings you might see. Students may play with this site, OR, teacher can guide practice. Either way, discussing this hits Reading Standard 1, describing what the pictures are saying and how they relate back to the overall idea will help hit Informational Text Standard 7. Writing an informative text in which they outline why we need government can hit writing standard 2.//====
 * [[image:resource.jpg]]RESOURCE: PBS Kids Go!**

//2 - C5.0.1:// Identify ways citizens participate in community decisions//.//
====//2 - C5.0.2: //Distinguish between personal and civic responsibilities and explain why they are important in community life//.// ====

//2 - H2.0.6:// Construct a historical narrative about the history of the local community from a variety of sources (e.g., data gathered from local residents, artifacts, photographs).
====//2 - G5.0.2: //Describe positive and negative consequences of changing the physical environment of the local community. ====

//2 - P4.2.2:// Participate in projects to help or inform others.
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