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CT.SS.2.SOCIAL STUDIES: MAKING A DIFFERENCE

SOCIAL STUDIES: MAKING A DIFFERENCE
2.1. DIMENSION 1: DEVELOPING QUESTIONS AND PLANNING INQUIRY - Central to a rich social studies experience is the capability for developing questions that can frame and advance inquiry. Those questions come in two forms: compelling and supporting questions (C3,
INQ K-2.1. Explain why the compelling question is important to the student.
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INQ K-2.2. Identify disciplinary ideas associated with a compelling question.
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INQ K-2.3. Identify facts and concepts associated with a supporting question.
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INQ K-2.4. Make connections between supporting questions and compelling questions.
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2.2. DIMENSION 2: APPLYING DISCIPLINARY CONCEPTS AND TOOLS - In Grade 2, the focus is on the disciplinary concepts and skills students need to understand how people make a difference in society and how, and why, we remember the past. The focus in second grade
HISTORY
Change, Continuity and Context
HIST 2.3. Generate questions about individuals and groups who have shaped a significant historical change.
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Perspectives
HIST 2.5. Compare different accounts of the same historical event.
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Historical Sources and Evidence
HIST 2.9. Generate questions about a particular historical source as it relates to a particular historical event or development.
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GEOGRAPHY
Geographic Representations: Spatial Views of the World
GEO 2.2. Use geographic representations to describe places and interactions that shape them.
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GEO 2.3. Use geographic representations to identify cultural and environmental characteristics of place.
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Human-Environment Interaction: Places, Regions, and Culture
GEO 2.5. Explain how humans affect the culture and environment of places/region.
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GEO 2.6. Identify cultural and environmental characteristics of a place/region.
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CIVICS
Civic and Political Institutions
CIV 2.1. Describe how communities work to accomplish common tasks, establish responsibilities and fulfill roles of authority.
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Participation and Deliberation
CIV 2.3. Describe democratic principles such as equality, fairness, and respect for legitimate authority and rules.
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Processes, Rules, and Laws
CIV 2.7. Describe how people have tried to improve their communities over time.
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ECONOMICS
Economic Decision-Making
ECO 2.2. Identify the benefits and costs of making various personal decisions.
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Exchange and Markets
ECO 2.3. Describe the goods and services that people in the local community produce and those that are produced in other communities.
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2.3. DIMENSION 3: EVALUATING SOURCES AND USING EVIDENCE - Students need to analyze information and come to conclusions in an inquiry. These skills focus on gathering and evaluating sources, and then developing claims and using evidence to support these claims
INQ K-2.7. Evaluate a source by distinguishing between facts and opinion.
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2.4. DIMENSION 4: COMMUNICATING CONCLUSIONS AND TAKING INFORMED ACTION - Students should construct and communicate claims for a variety of purposes and audiences. These audiences may range from the school classroom to the larger public community (C3, p. 59-62)
INQ K-2.14. Ask and answer questions about explanations.
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INQ K-2.15. Identify and explain a range of local, regional, and global problems, and some ways in which people are trying to address these problems.
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INQ K-2.16. Identify ways to take action to help address local, regional, and global problems.
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