Grade 2 Academic Content Standards
Science
Science and Technology
Understanding Technology
1. Explain that developing and using technology involves benefits and risks.
2. Investigate why people make new products or invent new ways to meet their individual wants and needs.
3. Predict how building or trying something new might affect other people and the environment.
Social Studies
People in Societies
Cultures
1. Describe the cultural practices and products of people on different continents.
Social Studies Skills and Methods
Obtaining Information
1. Obtain information from oral, visual and print sources.
2. Identify sources used to gather information:
a. People;
b. Printed materials;
c. Electronic sources.
Thinking and Organizing
3. Predict the next event in a sequence.
4. Distinguish the difference between fact and fiction in oral, visual and print materials.
Communicating Information
5. Communicate information in writing.
Problem Solving
6. Use problem-solving/decision-making skills to identify a problem and gather information while working
independently and in groups.
Science and Technology
Understanding Technology
1. Explain that developing and using technology involves benefits and risks.
2. Investigate why people make new products or invent new ways to meet their individual wants and needs.
3. Predict how building or trying something new might affect other people and the environment.
Social Studies
People in Societies
Cultures
1. Describe the cultural practices and products of people on different continents.
Social Studies Skills and Methods
Obtaining Information
1. Obtain information from oral, visual and print sources.
2. Identify sources used to gather information:
a. People;
b. Printed materials;
c. Electronic sources.
Thinking and Organizing
3. Predict the next event in a sequence.
4. Distinguish the difference between fact and fiction in oral, visual and print materials.
Communicating Information
5. Communicate information in writing.
Problem Solving
6. Use problem-solving/decision-making skills to identify a problem and gather information while working
independently and in groups.