Grade 2 Social Studies Nebraska Standards

Human-Environment Interaction

Location and Place

Economic Decision Making

Exchange and Markets

Civic Participation

Movement

Change, Continuity, and Context

Geography

Multiple Perspectives

Civics

Global Economy

Financial Literacy

Historical Inquiry and Research

Regions

Economics

National Economy

History

Forms and Functions of Government

Historical Analysis and Interpretation

Geospatial Skills and Geo-literacy

Investigate and defend the responsibilities and rights of citizens in their communities.

Contribute to developing rules by considering multiple points of view.

Demonstrate conflict management strategies as individuals, groups, and communities.

Contribute to making decisions using democratic traditions based on established rules.

Identify and apply civic responsibilities that are important to individuals and their communities.

Explain how patriotic symbols, songs, actions, celebrations, and holidays reflect democratic traditions.

Communicate historical background and significance of national holidays.

Investigate ways to be actively engaged to improve family, school, and community.

Model and communicate characteristics of good citizenship.

Evaluate choices about how to use scarce resources that involve prioritizing wants and needs.

Justify a decision made by providing evidence of possible gains and losses.

Demonstrate knowledge of currency, its denominations, and use.

Make transactions using currency emphasizing its use as a medium of exchange.

Describe how producers deliver products/services, earn an income, and satisfy economic needs and wants.

Explain the role of goods and services and supply and demand in a community.

Describe how people in their communities earn income/wages through work.

Identify the goods and services governments provide.

Identify goods and services that local governments provide.

Explain how the local government uses taxes to pay for goods and services it provides.

Describe how people in their communities earn income/wages through work.

Not addressed at this level.

Explore where (spatial) and why people, places, and environments are organized in the world.

Compare and contrast maps and globes.

Identify and describe locations in neighborhoods.

Identify and apply map elements.

Locate communities, Nebraska, and the United States on maps and globes.

Explain why things are located where they are in neighborhoods.

Compare places and regions.

Identify and differentiate between physical and human features of neighborhoods and communities.

Describe local places and regions.

Explain how places and regions change over time.

Describe relationships between humans and the physical environment.

Identify examples of Earth's physical processes.

Describe how seasonal weather patterns, natural hazards, and natural resources affect human activities.

Match resources to their sources.

Describe how people adapt to their physical environment.

Use geographic skills to make connections to students' lives.

Apply geographic knowledge and techniques to navigate students' homes and neighborhoods.

Recognize patterns of continuity and change over time in neighborhoods.

Describe how a neighborhood has changed over the course of time using maps and other artifacts.

Compare and contrast how different neighborhoods have changed over time.

Compare multiple perspectives of events within neighborhoods.

Compare and contrast perspectives from multiple sources regarding the same event.

Determine past and current events, issues, and people relevant to a neighborhood.

Describe historical people, events, ideas, and symbols (including various cultures and ethnic groups) that impacted a neighborhood.

Develop historical inquiry and research skills.

Construct and answer questions about neighborhood history.

Identify, obtain, and cite appropriate primary and secondary sources for research.

Gather and present historical information about a neighborhood.