Illinois

SS.CV Civics

• Civic and Political Institutions

  • SS.CV.1.2 Explain what governments are and some of their functions (e.g. making and enforcing laws, protecting citizens, and collecting taxes).

    • Purpose of government (2-C.1)
    • Local government (2-C.2)

• Processes, Rules, and Laws

  • SS.CV.2.2 Describe how communities work to accomplish common tasks, establish responsibilities, and fulfill roles of authority.

    • Local government (2-C.2)

SS.G Geography

• Geographic Representations

  • SS.G.1.2 Construct and interpret maps and other graphic representations of both familiar and unfamiliar places.

    • Read a letter-number grid (2-A.1)
    • Use a letter-number grid (2-A.2)
    • Read a map: cardinal directions (2-A.3)
    • Identify oceans and continents (2-A.4)
    • Select oceans and continents (2-A.5)
    • Name oceans and continents (2-A.6)
    • Major U.S. cities (2-A.9)

• Human-Environment Interaction

  • SS.G.2.2 Identify some cultural and environmental characteristics of your community and compare to other places.

    • Identify urban, suburban, and rural areas (2-A.10)
    • Compare urban, suburban, and rural areas (2-A.11)
    • Identify American symbols, landmarks, and monuments (2-D.1)
    • The American flag (2-D.2)
    • The White House (2-D.3)
    • The Washington Monument (2-D.4)
    • The Lincoln Memorial (2-D.5)
    • The Statue of Liberty (2-D.6)
    • The Empire State Building (2-D.7)
    • The Golden Gate Bridge (2-D.8)
    • Mount Rushmore (2-D.9)
    • Día de los Muertos (2-E.1)
    • Thanksgiving (2-E.2)
    • Hanukkah (2-E.3)
    • Rosh Hashanah (2-E.4)
    • Kwanzaa (2-E.5)
    • Christmas (2-E.6)
    • Easter (2-E.7)
    • Lunar New Year (2-E.8)
    • Ramadan (2-E.9)
    • Holi (2-E.10)

• Human Population

  • SS.G.3.2 Explain how people in your community use local and distant environments to meet their daily needs.

SS.EC Economics and Financial Literacy

• Economic Decision Making

  • SS.EC.1.2 Demonstrate how our choices can affect ourselves and others in positive and negative ways.

  • SS.EC.2.2 Explain the role of money in making exchange easier.

• Exchange and Markets

  • SS.EC.3.2 Compare the goods and services that people in the local community produce and those that are produced in other communities.

    • Goods and services (2-F.2)
    • Producers and consumers (2-F.3)

• Financial Literacy

  • SS.EC.FL.4.2 Explain that money can be saved or spent on goods and services.

SS.H History

• Change, Continuity, and Context

  • SS.H.1.2 Summarize changes that have occurred in the local community over time.

• Perspectives

  • SS.H.2.2 Compare individuals and groups who have shaped a significant historical change.

    • Benjamin Franklin (2-B.1)
    • Paul Revere (2-B.2)
    • Thomas Jefferson (2-B.3)
    • Davy Crockett (2-B.4)
    • John Deere (2-B.5)
    • Abraham Lincoln (2-B.6)
    • Frederick Douglass (2-B.7)
    • Susan B. Anthony (2-B.8)
    • Harriet Tubman (2-B.9)
    • Sitting Bull (2-B.10)
    • Thomas Edison (2-B.11)
    • Theodore Roosevelt (2-B.12)
    • George Washington Carver (2-B.13)
    • Amelia Earhart (2-B.14)
    • Thurgood Marshall (2-B.15)
    • Rosa Parks (2-B.16)
    • Jackie Robinson (2-B.17)
    • Cesar Chavez (2-B.18)
    • Martin Luther King Jr. (2-B.19)
    • Neil Armstrong (2-B.20)
    • Bill Gates (2-B.21)

• Historical Sources and Evidence

  • SS.H.3.2 Explain how different kinds of historical sources (such as written documents, objects, artistic works, and oral accounts) can be used to study the past.