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Jefferson County Schools Social Studies In Social Studies, the goal is for all students to develop a deep, rich network of understandings related to the world around them. The objectives and competencies included in this curriculum deal with history, geography, economics, and civics from a diverse, global perspective. Students engage in projects that require them to apply Social Studies skills in real-world contexts. Grade 2 Students in the second grade are ready to learn more about the world they live in by studying the local community, both past and present. United States history includes Colonial America, folk stories/songs, and national holidays and symbols. The study of geography introduces the relationship between the physical environment and human activities, while continuing to develop map and globe skills. Students expand their understanding of economic concepts on money, goods and services, and trade. Students' historical analysis skills should include data interpretation, timelines, and holidays around the world. |
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Communities: Physical Characteristics
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) name the physical characteristics of communities such as city, building, skyscraper.
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Communities: Draw Conclusions/Pictures
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) use pictures to draw conclusions about communities.
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Culture: Diversity
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) identify various cultural groups within the community and the 3 grand divisions of Tennessee and compare to other states, recognize that Tennessee's culture has ties to other cultures, and recognize that cultures have strong traditions of loyalty to their region or country.
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Culture: People/Similar/Different
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) identify how people are similar and different including language, religion, family structure, and customs, and recognize that most cultures preserve important items from the past.
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Cultural Heritage: Significance
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) identify and explain the significance of selected stories, poems, statues, paintings, and other examples of local and state cultural heritage.
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Diverse Neighborhoods: Recognize
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) recognize diverse cultural neighborhoods within Tennessee and America.
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Global Concerns: Recognize
The learner will be able to (COMPACTED) recognize major global concerns: pollution, conservation of natural resources, global warming, destruction of rain forest).
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Needs/Wants: Classify
The learner will be able to (COMPACTED) classify needs and wants using pictures of common items (food, cleaning products, clothes, candy, makeup).
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Science and Technology: Identify Change
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) determine how scientific and technological discoveries changed the way of life across time (cotton gin, automobile, electricity, communications).
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Consumer/Producer: Differentiate
The learner will be able to (COMPACTED) use a picture to differentiate between consumers and producers.
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Economics: Concepts
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) understand various jobs, how work provides income, and how society depends upon workers with specialized jobs.
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Economics: Interactions
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) understand the various institutions in an economic system (families, workers, banks, labor unions, government agencies, businesses) and recognize that communities around the state and world are economically interdependent.
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Economics: Process/Final Product
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) associate a final product (e.g., carton of milk) with its original source (e.g. cow on a dairy farm).
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Goods/Services: Inferences
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) make inferences about farm products from a map.
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Goods/Services: Money
The learner will be able to (COMPACTED) understand the concept of exchanging money for goods or services.
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Goods/Services: Price/Identify
The learner will be able to (COMPACTED) identify price as the amount of money people pay for a good or service.
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Goods/Services: Understand Difference
The learner will be able to (COMPACTED) understand the difference between goods and services.
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Import/Export: Distinguish
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) distinguish between imports and exports and understand that some items must be imported, and categorize resources needed to operate industries.
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Inventions: Tools
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) understand the invention of basic tools and how they were/are used.
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Map: Interpret
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) interpret a map showing the major products of Tennessee.
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Transportation: Modes/Compare/Contrast
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) compare/contrast modes of transportation.
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Concepts: Directions
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) use north, south, east, and west as a means for identifying location.
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Concepts: Location/Effects
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) make inferences about the effect of a geological location and apply understanding of geographic concepts to make decisions about characteristics of a place to live.
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Concepts: Terms/Location
The learner will be able to (ESSENTIAL) recognize geographic terms dealing with location, such as neighborhood.
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Earth Attributes: Day/Night
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) understand the concept of night and day in the context of the earth-sun relationship.
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Earth Attributes: Places/Understand
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) name human characteristics of the neighborhood and community.
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Earth Attributes: Seasons
The learner will be able to (COMPACTED) identify and understand the sequence of months within the seasons.
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Globe: Locate
The learner will be able to (IMPORTANT) identify the globe as a model of the earth recognize the natural regions such as climate, vegetation, and natural resources, and be able to locate the following: hemispheres, poles, equator, continents, oceans.
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