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Skills available for District of Columbia second-grade social studies standards
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- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): First Ancient Civilizations K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): First Ancient Civilizations
- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Innovations of Long Ago K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Innovations of Long Ago
- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Kingdoms, Cities and Communities K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Kingdoms, Cities and Communities
- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Our World Today K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Our World Today
- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Understanding Ourselves in the Larger World K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Understanding Ourselves in the Larger World
- District of Columbia Social Studies Standards District of Columbia Social Studies Standards
Actions
1 Understanding Ourselves in the Larger World
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2.1 Compare different representations of the Washington, DC and Chesapeake region, including maps representing the political geography of Indigenous Nations, to develop claims about the changes to the region over time.
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2.2 Compare different kinds of maps, with a focus on physical and political maps, and identify key parts of a map (e.g., title, legend or key, scale, compass or cardinal directions).
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2.3 Create and compare visual representations of communities and school spaces, and evaluate the utility of each representation in understanding community and school spaces.
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2.4 Identify and locate the seven continents and five oceans using maps, and describe major geographic features around the world.
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2.5 Identify and explain the different climate patterns in different global regions.
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2.6 Analyze data, images, maps and texts to compare how different people around the world live today and have lived in the past.
- Then and now: transportation and communication (2)
- Then and now: home and school (2)
- Then and now: work and play (2)
- Christmas (2-G.1)
- Día de los Muertos (2-G.2)
- Easter (2-G.3)
- Hanukkah (2-G.4)
- Holi (2-G.5)
- Kwanzaa (2-G.6)
- Lunar New Year (2-G.7)
- Ramadan (2-G.8)
- Rosh Hashanah (2-G.9)
- Thanksgiving (2-G.10)
- Benjamin Franklin (2-H.1)
- Davy Crockett (2-H.3)
- John Deere (2-H.4)
- Abraham Lincoln (2-H.5)
- Harriet Tubman (2-H.6)
- Susan B. Anthony (2-H.7)
- Sitting Bull (2-H.8)
- Thomas Edison (2-H.9)
- Theodore Roosevelt (2-H.10)
- George Washington Carver (2-H.11)
- Amelia Earhart (2-H.12)
- Thurgood Marshall (2-H.13)
- Rosa Parks (2-H.14)
- Jackie Robinson (2-H.15)
- Cesar Chavez (2-H.16)
- Neil Armstrong (2-H.17)
- Paul Revere (2-I.1)
- Thomas Jefferson (2-I.2)
- Frederick Douglass (2-I.3)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (2-I.4)
- Bill Gates (2-I.5)
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2.7 Compare different ways people get food and water today locally, nationally and globally.
2 First Ancient Civilizations
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Skills covering this topic are not currently available on IXL.
3 Innovations of Long Ago
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Skills covering this topic are not currently available on IXL.
4 Kingdoms, Cities and Communities
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Skills covering this topic are not currently available on IXL.
5 Our World Today
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2.29 Explain how people use water and land today to produce or grow food locally and nationally.
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2.3 Explain how the climate has changed from long ago to today and explain how the changing climate impacts life on Earth.
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2.31 Evaluate local and global methods of human-environment interactions (e.g., farming, fishing, mining, irrigation) to identify practices that may be considered sustainable.
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2.32 Identify a current sustainability challenge, and develop an action plan for increasing sustainability in the community or globally.