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DC.2.Living, Learning, and Working Now and Long Ago

Living, Learning, and Working Now and Long Ago
GEOGRAPHY
2.1. Students use map and globe skills to determine the absolute locations of places and interpret information available through a map or globe’s legend, scale, and symbolic representations.
2.1.1. Understand how maps and globes depict geographical information in different ways. (G)
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Map & Compass Skills
 
2.1.3. Identify the location and significance of well-known sites, events, or landmarks in different countries and regions from which Washington, DC, students’ families hail. (G)
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Landmarks
 
2.1.4. Explain the human characteristics of places, including houses, schools, communities, neighborhoods, and businesses. (G)
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Continents and Oceans
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Geographic Information
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Geographic Regions
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Landmarks
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Map & Compass Skills
 
CIVIC VALUES
2.2. Students describe the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
2.2.2. Understand how one becomes an American citizen (e.g., by birth or naturalization). (P)
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Roles of the Citizens
 
2.2.3. Define the meaning of words associated with good citizenship (e.g., politeness, achievement, courage, honesty, and reliability). (P)
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Roles of the Citizens
 
2.3. Students explain governmental institutions and practices in the United States and other countries.
2.3.4. Identify ways in which groups and nations interact with one another to try to resolve problems (e.g., trade and treaties). (P)
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Interdependence of Goods and Services
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Trade and Transportation
 
2.4. Students understand the importance of individual action and character, and they explain, from examining biographies, how people who have acted righteously have made a difference in others’ lives and have achieved the status of heroes in the remote and rec
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Famous Americans
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Government and Political Systems
 
2.5. Students describe the human characteristics of familiar places and varied backgrounds of U.S. citizens and residents in those places.
2.5.1. Distinguish traditional food, customs, sports and games, and music from other countries that can be found in the United States today. (P, S)
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Other Cultures Contribute to U.S. Culture
 
2.5.2. Describe beliefs, customs, ceremonies, and traditions of the varied cultures, drawing from folklore. (P, S)
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Other Cultures Contribute to U.S. Culture
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Tales of Long Ago
 
2.5.3. Explain the ways in which we are all part of the same community, sharing principles, goals, and traditions despite varied ancestry (e pluribus unum). (P, S)
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Other Cultures Contribute to U.S. Culture
 
2.5.4. Understand the significance of the Statue of Liberty and how many people have come to the United States, and continue to come here, from all around the world. (I, P, S)
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Landmarks
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Other Cultures Contribute to U.S. Culture
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Roles of the Citizens
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World Population