2.1 Students differentiate between things that
happened long ago and things that happened yesterday.
1. Trace the history of a family through the use of
primary and secondary sources, including artifacts, photographs,
interviews, and documents.
2. Compare
and contrast their daily lives with those of their parents,
grandparents, and/or guardians.
3. Place important events in their lives in the order in
which they occurred (e.g., on a time line or storyboard).
2.2 Students demonstrate map skills by describing the
absolute and relative locations of people, places, and environments.
1.
Locate on a simple letter-number grid system the specific locations
and geographic features in their neighborhood or community (e.g., map
of the classroom, the school).
2. Label
from memory a simple map of the North American continent, including
the countries, oceans, Great Lakes, major rivers, and mountain ranges.
Identify the essential map elements; title, legend, directional
indicator, scale, and date.
3. Locate on a map where their ancestors live(d),
telling when the family moved to the local community and who and why
they made the trip.
4. Compare and contrast basic land use in urban,
suburban, and rural environments in California.
2.3 Students explain governmental institutions and practices
in the United States and other countries.
1.
Explain how the United States and other countries make laws, carry out
laws, determine whether laws have been violated, and punish
wrongdoers.
2. Describe
the ways in which groups and nations interact with one another to try
to resolve problems in such areas as trade, cultural contacts,
treaties, diplomacy, and military force.
2.4 Students understand basic economic concepts and their
individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic
reasoning skills.
1.
Describe food production and consumption long ago and today,
including the rules of farmers, processors, distributors, weather, and
land and water resources.
2.
Understand the role and interdependence of buyers (consumers) and
sellers (producers) of goods and services.
3.
Understand how limits on resources affect production and consumption
(what to produce and what to consume).
2.5 Students understand the
importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes
from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others'
lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur,
Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein,
Golda Meir, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride).
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