Geography
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
Subject: Social Studies
Time Frame: 4 weeks (Quarter 1)
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Big Understandings
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- use geographic terms and tools to describe places and spaces
- people in communities manage, modify, and depend on their environment
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Essential Questions
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- how do you define, organize, and think about the space around you?
- what is a human feature versus a physical feature?
- why do we use geographic tools such as maps, globes, grids, symbols, and keys?
- how would you describe a setting without using geographic words?
- how can using the wrong geographic tool or term cause problems?
- how do available resources and their uses create change in a community?
- are renewable and nonrenewable resources managed well? How do you know?
- why are physical features often used as boundaries?
- what are the various groups in a community and how are they alike and different?
- how do you choose if you should recycle, reduce, reuse, or throw something away?
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By the end of the unit, students will be able to:
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- use map keys, legends, symbols, intermediate directions, and a compass rose to locate and describe spaces and places
- identify and locate various physical features on a map
- identify the hemispheres, equator, and poles on a globe
- identify and locate cultural, human, political, and natural features using map keys and legends
- explain how communities manage and use nonrenewable and renewable resources
- explain how community is defined by physical boundaries and resources
- explain why people settle in certain areas
- identify examples of how human activity influences cultural and environmental characteristics of a place over time
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Topics:
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â—¦ Use geographic terms and tools to describe space and place (map keys, symbols, and legends)
â—¦ Use different kinds of maps to consider community and how people use resources in the community (landforms, water sources)
â—¦ Find connections between places and regions (how have people adapted to their physical environment?)
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Standards
SS.2.2.1
SS.2.2.2