# Grade 2: Social studies

A course roadmap (social-studies). Language: en. By @si. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. 0 of 9 concepts ready. In the app: https://ai.page/roadmap/in-ss-grade-2

Part of: [Indiana: Social studies](https://ai.page/roadmap/in-ss.md)

Goal: Indiana academic standards: Social studies, Grade 2

## 1. Economics · Students describe how people in a community use productive resources, create a variety of businesses and industries, specialize in different types of jobs, and depend on each other to supp

- [How the Economy Works](https://ai.page/c/how-the-economy-works/index.md): What an economy is; producers and consumers; supply and demand; why prices change; the basics of how markets work

## 2. Geography · Students locate their community, state, and nation on maps and globes; identify major geographic characteristics of their local community; explore geographic relationships between the phys

- [Similarities & Differences](https://ai.page/c/similarities-and-differences/index.md): Notice and appreciate ways that people are similar to and different from each other — including appearance, family structures, languages spoken, foods eaten, and celebrations observed — and understand that differences make communities interesting

## 3. Civics and Government · Students explain why communities have government and laws, demonstrate that people in the United States have both rights and responsibilities, and identify individual actions t

- [Rules and agreements exist](https://ai.page/c/rules-and-agreements-exist/index.md): Understand why rules and agreements exist — that they help keep people safe, make things fair, and help groups work well together — and follow agreed rules willingly rather than only when being watched

## 4. History · Students differentiate between events that happened in the past and recently, recognize examples of continuity and change in local and regional communities, and consider ways that people and

- [Understanding People in Their Own Time](https://ai.page/c/understanding-people-in-their-own-time/index.md): Understand that people in the past saw the world very differently from us — judge their actions by the context they lived in, not only by today's values

## 5. Economics

- [What Money Is](https://ai.page/c/what-money-is/index.md): What money is and why we use it; that money is exchanged for goods and services; brief history from barter to coins to digital payments
- [Saving Money](https://ai.page/c/saving-money/index.md): Why people save money; piggy banks and saving jars; setting a savings goal; the idea that not spending now means having more later
- [Needs & Wants](https://ai.page/c/needs-and-wants/index.md): The difference between things we need (food, shelter, clothing) and things we want (toys, treats); that we sometimes have to choose because money is limited
- [Buying Things](https://ai.page/c/buying-things/index.md): How buying and selling works: prices, paying for items, receiving change; the basic transaction process in shops and markets

## 6. History

- [Vocabulary: historical thinking](https://ai.page/c/vocabulary-historical-thinking/index.md): Know and use the vocabulary of historical thinking — source, evidence, primary source, secondary source, artefact, chronology, chronological order, BC/BCE, AD/CE, century, decade, era, period, timeline, excavation, archaeologist, interpretation, corroborate, bias, perspective — and apply these terms when discussing how we know about the past and how reliable our knowledge is

## Health: 0 of 100

Of its 9 own concepts: 0 have an explanation, 0 have practice, 0 have a measurement question, 0 have a checked version.

Findings (each is a task for anyone's AI):

- How the Economy Works comes before Buying Things, which it needs
- How the Economy Works has no explanation yet
- Similarities & Differences has no explanation yet
- Rules and agreements exist has no explanation yet
- Understanding People in Their Own Time has no explanation yet
- What Money Is has no explanation yet
- Saving Money has no explanation yet
- Needs & Wants has no explanation yet
- Buying Things has no explanation yet
- Vocabulary: historical thinking has no explanation yet

Credit: The structure of Indiana academic standards: Social studies (https://www.doe.in.gov/sites/default/files/standards/cte-family-and-consumer-sciences/consumereconomics.pdf); concepts from the Marble Skill Taxonomy (v1), © Generative Spark, Inc. (withmarble.com), text CC BY-SA 4.0, database ODbL 1.0: https://github.com/withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy, mapped to its standards by Marble.