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SECOND GRADE
SOCIAL SCIENCE EXPECTATIONS
STATE SOCIAL SCIENCE GOAL #14
UNDERSTAND POLITICAL SYSTEMS, WITH AN EMPHASIS
ON THE UNITED STATES
STANDARD 14-A
Understand and explain basic principles
of the United States government.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Tell about some rules and
responsibilities that students have in school to help promote order and safety.
Name some of the benefits of sharing and
taking turns during games and group activities.
Explain why schools have rules to help
students learn.
Produce rules that could apply to
students’ lives at home or school.
Demonstrate examples of honesty and
fairness when playing or working with other students.
Give an example of how governments help
people live safely and fairly.
Identify why people need governments to
help organize or protect people.
STANDARD 14-B
Understand the structures and functions
of the political systems of Illinois, the United States and other nations.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Identify the officials and political
bodies that form the organization of the local government (mayor, police chief,
etc.)
Identify important services provided by
local governments to people (e.g., police and fire protection, parks
departments).
STANDARD 14-C
Understand election processes and
responsibilities of citizens.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Discuss a situation in their home or
school that illustrates people being responsible in their duties or job.
List examples of responsible student
classroom behavior.
Summarize the outcome of classroom
decision-making in terms of what was decided by the majority of the students.
Identify elected leaders (e.g., mayor,
governor, president).
STANDARD 14-D
Understand the roles and influences of
individuals and interest groups in the political systems of Illinois, the United
States and other nations.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Tell how a student should express ideas
in a respectful manner to another student or to teachers.
Recognize the responsibilities of local
government.
STANDARD 14-E
Understand United States foreign policy
as it relates to other nations and international issues.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Tell about someone that students have
seen or met (e.g., on television, in a book, in the neighborhood) who lives in
another country.
Tell about food from other countries.
Identify a product or artifact that
comes from another country (e.g., food, toys).
STANDARD 14-F
Understand the development of United
States political ideas and traditions.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Identify an example of behavior that
shows someone showing good citizenship (e.g., recycling, being honest when being
questioned).
Give examples of people being honest and
truthful when working with others.
Describe how a holiday such as the
Fourth of July represents the idea of freedom.
Describe how a holiday such as Veteran’s
Day represents the idea of sacrifice to preserve freedom.
State reasons why people benefit from
basic rights such as freedom of speech.
STATE SOCIAL SCIENCE GOAL #15
UNDERSTAND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS, WITH AN EMPHASIS
ON THE UNITED STATES.
STANDARD 15-A
Understand how different economic
systems operate in the exchange, production, distribution and consumption of
goods and services.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
List and categorize goods and services
people consume.
Explain how a people make economic
choices.
Identify at least three ways in which a
scarce item might be distributed in the classroom (e.g., 10 cookies for 20
children).
Match workers in the community to the
goods and services they produce.
STANDARD 15-B
Understand that scarcity necessitates
choices by consumers.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Describe times when students or families
have been consumers.
Identify a choice students have made
about the use of time.
Choose between two items and correctly
identify the item given up as the opportunity cost.
STANDARD 15-C
Understand that scarcity necessitates
choices by producers.
STANDARD 15-D
Understand trade as an exchange of
goods or services.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Define barter and give examples of
barter in the economy.
Describe a trade that has been made and
why the people agreed to trade.
STANDARD 15-E
Understand the impact of government
policies and decisions on production and consumption in the economy.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Identify public goods and services that
students or families use.
STATE SOCIAL SCIENCE GOAL #16
UNDERSTAND EVENTS, TRENDS, INDIVIDUALS AND
MOVEMENTS SHAPING THE HISTORY OF ILLINOIS, THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER NATIONS.
STANDARD 16-A
Apply the skills of historical analysis
and interpretation.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Place a series of events from a
chronology (e.g., the student’s life) in their proper places on a timeline.
Explain how the individual events on a
timeline are related to one another.
Use a story or an image about the past
to describe what life was like for people who lived during that period.
Explain why people need to know about
the history of those who live in other places.
STANDARD 16-B
Understand the development of
significant political events.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Identify a local historical monument or
place.
Explain how an event in United States
political history is related to a current community event or issue.
Identify significant political figures
or groups from the past.
Tell about a political event featured in
a folk tale, story, or legend (e.g., King Arthur, King Midas).
STANDARD 16-C
Understand the development of economic
systems.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Explain why people traded in the past.
Describe how people made a living in the
past.
Identify the significance of trade in
society in the past and present.
Describe how people made a living in the
past.
Explain how people made economic choices
to survive and improve their lives in the past.
STANDARD 16-D
Understand Illinois, United States and
world social history.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Identify stories and folk-tales that
describe various customs practiced in America and/or local communities (e.g.,
John Henry, Pocahontas).
Tell about a person who worked to
improve life in the community and/or United States.
List examples of past traditions found
within the local community.
Interpret stories and folktales from the
past to show various customs from groups of people in the past and the influence
these customs had on their society.
STANDARD 16-E
Understand Illinois, United States and
world environmental history.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Tell about a myth, legend, or story that
people told long ago to describe the physical environment of a place or region
in Illinois.
Locate the place in the local community
where an important event took place.
Locate place names on a map of Illinois
that give a clue to a community’s early history and/or physical features.
STATE SOCIAL SCIENCE GOAL #17
UNDERSTAND WORLD GEOGRAPHY AND THE EFFECTS OF
GEOGRAPHY ON SOCIETY, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE UNITED STATES.
STANDARD 17-A
Locate, describe and explain places,
regions and features on the Earth.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Compare physical and human features of
different places in the community.
Locate on a map or drawing the relative
location of the school to students' homes.
Identify similar physical
characteristics of Earth using the globe and pictures.
STANDARD 17-B
Analyze and explain characteristics and
interactions of the Earth's physical systems.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Describe how seasons relate to the ways
people dress and seasonal activities they engage in, in different areas of the
world using pictures in books and magazines.
Identify behaviors that would show
respect for the environment.
STANDARD 17-C
Understand relationships between
geographic factors and society.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Tell how people pollute the air, water,
and land.
Select pictures from a series that show
people using the environment to meet their needs (e g people cutting
Locate pictures showing ways that humans
use the natural environment.
Describe how people have changed the
physical and human environment of the school grounds and the community.
STANDARD 17-D
Understand the historical significance
of geography.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Describe daily changes in the weather
and changes in the seasons in the local community.
Explain why physical and human features
in the local environment change over time.
STATE SOCIAL SCIENCE GOAL #18
UNDERSTAND SOCIAL SYSTEMS, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON
THE UNITED STATES.
STANDARD 18-A
Compare characteristics of culture as
reflected in language, literature, the arts, traditions and institutions.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Describe how communities within a
culture are similar.
Identify cultural traits.
Identify symbols of local culture.
STANDARD 18-B
Understand the roles and interactions
of individuals and groups in society.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Define social group.
Explain how contact with others shapes
peoples' lives.
Tell about the role of families in the
community.
STANDARD 18-C
Understand how social systems form and
develop over time.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS FOR "MEETING
STANDARDS"
Provide examples of how individuals make
choices that affect the group.
Give examples of group decisions that do
not please every individual in the group.
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