Historical Celebrations and Landmarks

Explore the significance of various community, state, and national celebrations such as Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Thanksgiving. Learn about important landmarks like monuments and government buildings. Understand the order of events using designations of time periods and apply vocabulary related to chronology. Create and interpret timelines for events in the past and present. Identify sources of information and evidence from the same time period. Recognize contributions of historical figures who have influenced society and those who exhibit individualism and inventiveness.

• Historical Celebrations
• Landmarks
• Chronology
• Historical Figures
• Social Studies

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1. Explain the significance of various community, state, and national celebrations such as Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Thanksgiving [2.1A] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

2. identify and explain the significance of various community, state, and national landmarks such as monuments and government buildings.[2.1B] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

3. describe the order of events by using designations of time periods such as historical and present times.[2.2A] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

4. apply vocabulary related to chronology, including past, present, and future.[2.2B] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

5. create and interpret timelines for events in the past and present.[2.2C] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

6. identify several sources of information about a given period or event such as reference materials, biographies, newspapers, and electronic sources.[2.3A] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

7. describe various evidence of the same time period using primary sources such as photographs, journals, and interviews.[2.3B] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

8. identify contributions of historical figures, including Thurgood Marshall, Irma Rangel, John Hancock, and Theodore Roosevelt, who have influenced the community, state, and nation.[2.4A] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

9. identify historical figures such as Amelia Earhart, W. E. B. DuBois, Robert Fulton, and George Washington Carver who have exhibited individualism and inventiveness.[2.4B] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

10. explain how people and events have influenced local community history.[2.4C] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

11. interpret information on maps and globes using basic map elements such as title, orientation (north, south, east, west), and legend / map keys.[2.5A] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

12. create maps to show places and routes within the home, school, and community.[2.5B] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

13. identify major landforms and bodies of water, including each of the continents and each of the oceans, on maps and globes.[2.6A] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

14. locate places of significance, including the local community, Texas, the state capital, the U.S. capital, major cities in Texas, the coast of Texas, Canada, Mexico, and the United States on maps and globes.[2.6B] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

15. examine information from various sources about places and regions.[2.6C] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

16. describe how weather patterns and seasonal patterns affect activities and settlement patterns.[2.7A] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

17. describe how natural resources and natural hazards affect activities and settlement patterns.[2.7B] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

18. explain how people depend on the physical environment and natural resources to meet basic needs.[2.7C] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

19. identify the characteristics of different communities, including urban, suburban, and rural, and how they affect activities and settlement patterns.[2.7D] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

20. identify ways in which people have modified the physical environment such as building roads, clearing land for urban development and agricultural use, and drilling for oil.[2.8A] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

21. identify positive and negative consequences of human modification of the physical environment such as the use of irrigation to improve crop yields.[2.8B] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

22. identify ways people can conserve and replenish natural resources.[2.8C] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

23. explain how work provides income to purchase goods and services.[2.9A] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

24. explain the choices people in the U.S. free enterprise system can make about earning, spending, and saving money and where to live and work.[2.9B] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

25. distinguish between producing and consuming.[2.10A] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

26. identify ways in which people are both producers and consumers.[2.10B] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

27. examine the development of a product from a natural resource to a finished product.[2.10C] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

28. identify functions of governments such as establishing order, providing security, and managing conflict.[2.11A] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

29. identify governmental services in the community such as police and fire protection, libraries, schools, and parks and explain their value to the community.[2.11B] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

30. describe how governments tax citizens to pay for services.[2.11C] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

31. name current public officials, including mayor, governor, and president.[2.12A] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

32. compare the roles of public officials, including mayor, governor, and president.[2.12B] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

33. identify ways that public officials are selected, including election and appointment to office.[2.12C] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

34. identify how citizens participate in their own governance through staying informed of what public officials are doing, providing input to them, and volunteering to participate in government functions.[2.12D] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

35. identify characteristics of good citizenship, including truthfulness, justice, equality, respect for oneself and others, responsibility in daily life, and participation in government by educating oneself about the issues, respectfully holding public officials to their word, and voting.[2.13A] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

36. identify historical figures such as Paul Revere, Abigail Adams, World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) and Navajo Code Talkers, and Sojourner Truth who have exemplified good citizenship.[2.13B] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

37. identify other individuals who exemplify good citizenship.[2.13C] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

38. identify ways to actively practice good citizenship, including involvement in community service.[2.13D] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

39. recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States Flag and the Pledge to the Texas Flag.[2.14A] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

40. identify selected patriotic songs, including "The Star Spangled Banner" and "America the Beautiful".[2.14B] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

41. identify selected symbols such as state and national birds and flowers and patriotic symbols such as the U.S. and Texas flags and Uncle Sam.[2.14C] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

42. identify how selected customs, symbols, and celebrations reflect an American love of individualism, inventiveness, and freedom.[2.14D] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

43. identify selected stories, poems, statues, paintings, and other examples of the local cultural heritage.[2.15A] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

44. explain the significance of selected stories, poems, statues, paintings, and other examples of the local cultural heritage.[2.15B] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

45. identify the significance of various ethnic and / or cultural celebrations.[2.16A] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

46. compare ethnic and / or cultural celebrations.[2.16B] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

47. describe how science and technology change communication, transportation, and recreation. [2.17A] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES

48. explain how science and technology change the ways in which people meet basic needs. [2.17B] October 2014 SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES