Grade 2 Social Studies Iowa standards Standards

Iowa History

Compare Perspectives

Analyze Change, Continuity, and Context

Analyze Human Population Movements and Patterns

Create Geographic Representations

Create a Saving and Spending Plan

Develop Financial and Career Goals

Evaluate the National Economy

Interpret Processes, Rules and Laws

Apply Civic Virtues and Democratic Principles

Analyze Civic and Political Institutions

Recognize the Interaction Between the Individual and Various Groups

Taking Informed Action

Communicating and Critiquing Conclusions

Gathering and Evaluating Sources

Constructing Questions

Choices and Consequences

With guidance and support identify a compelling question with an unfamiliar topic.

With guidance and support, identify a community problem and solutions to the problem.

With guidance and support, identify the difference between needs and wants.

Identify natural resources and how they can be used.

Identify goods and services the government provides.

Identify the level of education necessary for a specific career.

Identify the difference between spending and saving.

Use maps to identify the appropriate routes used to move people and things.

With guidance and support, indicate choices a person can make that impacts their environment.

With guidance and support identify a reasonable prediction about the future based on past related events.

Identify how a person can influence events.

With guidance and support, compare how a person from the past and a person living today would think about a particular question or issue.

With guidance and support, identify uses of Iowa's natural resources.

With guidance and support, identify what characteristics make a source primary or secondary.

Identify an example that could be used to answer a compelling question.

With guidance and support, identifies the decision about a civic problem in the classroom and participate in the group or individual action.

With guidance and support, identify two different points of view to address a community problem.

With guidance and support, identify a purpose of government.

With guidance and support, identifies their opinion on a decision about a local issue.

Economics/Financial Literacy: Saving, Spending and Investing

Economics/Financial Literacy: Saving, Spending and Investing

Economics/Financial Literacy: Financial and Career Goals

Saving and Spending (Financial Literacy)

Geography: Human-Environment Interaction

Geography: Places and Regions

Civics/Government: Constitutional Principles and Civic Virtues

Civics/Government: Role and Systems of Government

Iowa: What Makes Us Unique?

History: Change, Continuity and Context

History: Multiple Perspectives

History: Comparison and Corroboration

History: Change, Continuity and Context

Iowa Communities: Past and Present

History: Change, Continuity, and Context

Geography: Human Environment Interaction

History: Change, Continuity and Context

Geography: Human Environment Interaction

Culture and History of Native Americans in Iowa

Civic Engagement and Participation

Communicate Conclusions

Claims and Evidence

Gather, Interpret, and Evaluate Sources

Develop Questions and Plan Inquires

Inquiry Standards

Generate questions about a topic and plan how to learn more, using sources.

Explain ways that communities within the state of Iowa have changed over time.

Compare perspectives from the past to the present.

Describe the perspectives and contributions of individuals associated with the community or state in the past and present.

Describe significant events in the history of the local community or state.

Explain the roles of elected local and state officials.

Describe symbols, places, or landmarks that make Iowa unique.

Compare and contrast local environmental characteristics to that of other parts of the state of Iowa.

Describe Iowa’s natural resources and the consequences of using these resources.

Describe ways people can earn, spend and borrow money.

Explain why and how people save money.

Gather information from different sources and explain what they show about a topic.

Identify different ways to make amounts of money out of coins and bills.

hare facts and opinions about a topic and support them with evidence from sources.

Construct responses to questions using reasoning, examples, and relevant details.

Describe ways people make a difference in their community.

Explain how environmental characteristics shaped the locations and unique cultures of Native Americans in Iowa.

Compare life in the past to life today within different communities and cultural groups, including Native American communities.

Analyze the movement of different groups in and out of Iowa, including the removal and return of Native American people.

Describe the contributions of Native American leaders in their homelands and in their communities today.