How to learn Grade 2: Social studies

Oklahoma academic standards: Social studies, Grade 2

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1. Content Standards (PreK-8) · The student will understand basic economic concepts in the American economy.

1. Buying Things: How buying and selling works: prices, paying for items, receiving change; the basic transaction process in shops and markets
2. Taxes & Public Services: What taxes are and why people pay them; how taxes fund schools, hospitals, roads, and emergency services; that governments decide how to spend tax money
3. How the Economy Works: What an economy is; producers and consumers; supply and demand; why prices change; the basics of how markets work

2. Content Standards (PreK-8) · The student will describe the physical and human characteristics of their environment.

1. Similarities & Differences: 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. Content Standards · The student will understand basic economic concepts of a free market.

1. Banks & Saving: What banks do and why people use them; bank accounts as safe places for money; that savings in a bank can earn interest; children's savings accounts
2. Fair Trade & Ethics: Where products come from and who makes them; that people around the world produce what we buy; fair pay for workers; making ethical choices as consumers

4. Content Standards · The student will examine the history of significant events and individuals who impacted our nation and the world.

1. Vocabulary: historical thinking: 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
2. Understanding People in Their Own Time: 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. Content Standards · The student will explain the importance of the basic principles that provide the foundation of the American system of government.

1. Rules and agreements exist: 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