2nd Grade Curriculum Map
Literacy
Creating a Strong Community Students will work together to understand routines that will help create a strong learning community.
Adapting to Challenges Students will acquire knowledge about scientific concepts of plant growth, animal adaptations and the interaction of plants and animals in both natural and unnatural environments.
Persevering Through Challenges Students will listen to texts based on true stories of individuals who faced great challenges and persevered in different ways to face a range of challenges.
Changing Landforms Students will engage with the world of science as they begin to study landforms, how they change over time, and how that change affects both living and nonliving things.
Responding to & Creating Change Students will explore the essential question: “How do I use my voice to respond to or create change?”
Impacting the Environment Students will explore the essential question, "What impact can people have on the environment?"
Traditional Stories Students will explore how they can learn about the world, old and new, through traditional stories.
Creative Expression Students will explore the essential question, "How and why do people express themselves creatively?"
Math
Time and Money Students revisit fluency with addition and subtraction within 10 from Grade 1 to develop increasingly efficient strategies for adding and subtracting numbers to 20 as they work in context with simple time and money problems.
The Measurement of Things Students relate addition and subtraction to length, focusing on centimeters and meters to support upcoming work with place value concepts.
Problem Solving Students build their sense of quantities to 100 and beyond.
Let's Make 1000 Students use previous understandings of place value to explore the idea that a hundred is ten tens and that numbers greater than 100 are composed of some hundreds, some tens.
Working with Measurements Students continue developing their understanding of place value and properties of operations as they work with money, linear measurement (customary and metric), and time.
Making Sense of Data Students continue to use and apply place value with properties of operations to add and subtract as they solve a variety of problems involving data.
Shapes and Shares Students partition rectangles and circles into equal parts consisting of two, three, or four equal shares.
Building Fluency Students have multiple opportunities to further develop and deepen their understanding of the previous topics with which they have done work.
Evens and Odds Students develop the foundations of multiplication to prepare for work in Grade 3.
Social Studies
Families Today and in the Past How does life change throughout history?
People, Places, and Nature What is the world like?
Government How does government work?
People Who Supply Our Goods and Services How do people get what they need?
Making a Difference What makes someone a hero?
Our American Culture How is culture shared?
Science
Plant and Animal Relationships Students assume the role of plant scientists reporting to the lead scientist at the Bengal Tiger Reserve, who has tasked students with explaining the unit's anchor phenomenon of why no new chalta trees are growing there.
Properties of Materials Students take on the role of glue engineers and use engineering design practices to create a glue for use at their school, which serves as the design problem for the unit.
Changing Landforms Students take on the role of geologists in order to help the Oceanside Recreation Center Director understand what is happening to the recreation center’s cliff, and decide whether the center needs to be closed immediately.