2nd+Grade

=2nd Grade: NATIONAL COMMUNITIES=




 * National**
 * Communities** ||

Students will understand features of urban, suburban and rural communities from historical, economic, and geographical perspectives drawing on examples of communities across the United States. || **HISTORY**

Explore how urban, suburban and rural communities developed over time and how they are alike and different in their populations, traditions, and daily life events. Study the history and celebration of national holidays. || **CIVICS**

Examine the roles of citizenship in urban, suburban, and rural communities and understand how they participate in decision-making, problem-solving, and conflict resolution. || **GEOGRAPHY**

Environmental and geographic factors affect the development, growth, and sustenance of communities. || **ECONOMICS**

Production and acquisition of goods and services differs among communities. Citizens make decisions about the use of taxes ||

· How does production and acquisition of goods and services differ among communities? · How do citizens within a community differ in the acquisition of goods and services to meet their needs and wants?
 * ECONOMICS**
 * __ Essential Questions: __**

· Students will understand that the nature of a community will determine how goods and services are produced and acquired. · Students will understand how the characteristics of a community (rural, urban, suburban) impact how citizens provide for their needs and wants. · Students understand how taxes contribute to the economy of a community.
 * __ Enduring Understandings: __**

· Students will compare and contrast the differences among rural, urban and suburban areas and explain why people might move from one area to another. · Students will explain how different occupations contribute to a marketplace in urban, rural and suburban communities (jobs that produce goods vs jobs that provide services). · Students will explore how taxes are collected and utilized in various communities (rural, urban and suburban).
 * __ Unit Objectives: __**

__ Essential Questions: __ · How do citiznes use rules and laws to make decisions, solve problems and resolve conflicts? · How does a community depend on its citizens to keep order and safety? __Enduring Understandings:__ · Students will understand that every type of community (rural, urban, suburban) has established rules that allow its citizens to make decisions, solve problems and resolve conflicts. · Students will understand that the order and safety of a community depends upon the cooperation of its citizens to follow the rules and laws. __ Unit Objectives: __ · Students will be able to identify similarities and differences in rules and laws of urban, suburban and rural communities. · Students will describe and give examples of how each type of community uses their rules and laws to make decisions, solve problems and resolve conflicts. · Students will be able to describe the impact on the organization and safety of a community when citizens fail to follow the rules/laws.
 * CIVICS**

· What are urban, suburban and rural communities similar or different? <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· How does past history impact the present way of life in a community? <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· How do national holidays affect life in local communities? <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Students will understand key characteristics of urban, suburban and rural communities. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Students will understand how events shape a community over time and influence changes in people’s behaviors and perceptions. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Students will understand national holidays serve to unite people across diverse communities. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Students will compare and contrast various types of communities, rural, urban, suburban, to identify their similarities and differences. <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Students will be able to explain how past historical events impact present day communities. <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Students will research national holidays with the goal of describing how they are celebrated in a variety of communities.
 * GEOGRAPHY**
 * __Essential Questions:__**
 * __Enduring Understandings:__**
 * __Unit Objectives:__**

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