Grade 2 Social Studies Hawaii standards Standards

Content Standards

Anchor and Inquiry Standards

Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries

Gathering and Evaluating Sources

Creating Claims

Communicating Conclusions

Taking Informed Action

Describe how significant people and events have shaped communities and places now and in the past

Investigate school, community, and national leaders and their responsibilities

Describe how historical figures exemplify our shared democratic values

Explain how human activities impact the environment

Construct timelines that sequence historical events

Compare varying perspectives on historical events

Compare goods and services that are produced locally and globally

Describe public goods and services the government provides

Examine how people are dependent on others for goods and services they cannot produce themselves

Describe major geographic features of places using maps, photos, and other geographic representations

Compare a variety of the Earth's natural resources and how people use them

Investigate how people in your community rely on local and global resources to meet their daily needs

Develop logical solutions to various community problems

Explain how scarcity of resources affects the cost of goods and services

Determine costs and benefits of saving money

Construct a variety of questions about social studies topics with guidance from adults and/or peers

Construct supporting questions to help answer compelling questions with guidance from adults and/or peers

Determine whether a source is primarily fact or opinion

Determine whether a source is primary or secondary

Gather facts from teacher and/or adult-curated sources to answer questions

Begins in grades 3-5

Begins in grades 3-5

Construct explanations using correct sequence and relevant information

Respectfully ask and answer questions about arguments and explanations

Present explanations using a variety of print, oral, and digital technologies

Identify problems or issues in classrooms, schools, or communities

Identify ways in which people are trying to address problems or issues in classrooms, schools, or communities

Use deliberative and democratic procedures (e.g., listening, consensus building, voting) to identify ways to take action on classroom, school, or community problems or issues

Show evidence of taking individual or group action on one or more problems or issues