Social Studies

Second grade will use a new curriculum this year for social studies. We will use an online text book through the respected resource, Social Studies Alive! Using our iPads, students will examine community issues, geography,the environment, consumerism and finally citizen influence. We will discuss three kinds of communities and why they are they both different and important. We will spend time learning about how to read a map while answering the question: What is Geography? Then we will look at consumerism as we learn how goods are made and brought into stores. Finally, we will examine how communities change and the role of citizens in that change.  All of this will complement the work we do in Story Path as we study the human impact on the rainforest and coral reef ecosystems.