Grade 2 Social Studies New Mexico standards Standards

Geography

Economics/Personal Financial Literacy

Ethnic, Cultural, and Identity Studies

History

Civics

Inquiry

Second Grade

Explain why a compelling question is important.

Examine and compare the American democratic principles to neighboring countries.

Examine and understand the various qualities of leadership.

Describe events in North America that illustrate how people from diverse cultural groups aimed to work through conflicts to solve a problem.

Compare diverse world communities to local communities in terms of members, customs, and traditions.

Demonstrate chronological thinking by distinguishing among years and decades using a timeline of local and national events.

Identify and compare the diverse North American cultural groups of the past and today.

Evaluate the effects of people, goods, and ideas that diffused from one community to other communities and their impact.

Examine how consumers react to changes in the prices of goods and how this influences economic decision making and the use of money.

Explore how communities share resources and services with other communities.

Investigate what resources are available in their community, how available resources differ in communities, and what resources are obtained from neighboring communities.

Generate supporting questions related to compelling questions within a variety of social studies topics.

Personal Financial Literacy

Geographic Representations and Reasoning

Location, Place, and Region

Movement, Population, and Systems

Human-Environmental Interactions and Sustainability

Historical Change, Continuity, Context, and Reconciliation

Critical Consciousness and Perspectives

Processes, Rules, and Laws

Diversity and Identity

Community Equity Building

Construct Compelling and Supporting Questions

Gather and Evaluate Sources

Communicate and Critique Conclusions

Take Informed Action

Civic Dispositions and Democratic Principles

Roles and Responsibilities of a Civic Life

Economic Decision Making

Economic Systems and Models

Using maps, identify and locate the United States, Canada, and Mexico as the countries that make up North America.

Identify and locate the bordering states to New Mexico and understand that New Mexico is in the Southwest.

Compare the human and physical characteristics of two regions in the United States.

Generate a description for their region of the United States by identifying unique features.

List at least three different waves of migration to the Western hemisphere in chronological order.

Describe ways in which individuals and groups use or conserve natural resources.

Express a positive view of themselves while demonstrating respect and empathy for others.

Describe ways we are similar and different from people who share identities and people who do not.

Demonstrate respect for the feelings of people who are similar to or different from them.

Identify different types of jobs performed in their community.

With support, determine if a source is primary or secondary.

Assess priorities when making financial decisions.

Classify financial goals as short-term or long-term.

With support, construct responses to compelling questions using reasoning, examples, and relevant details.

Take group or individual action to help address local, regional, and/or global problems or issues.

Use deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions about and act on civic problems or issues in their classrooms.

Evaluate how American society has changed through rules and laws.

Understand the purposes and structures of government (tribal, local, state, national government).

Assess how the contributions of diverse individuals' have helped develop our national identity.