2nd Grade Social Studies Curriculum History Unit Communities

This unit looks at communities in the past and the present. It allows you to show your students how your own community started and where it is today. There are activities that discuss how we live now compared to the past. Look below to see what is included!

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6 Lesson Plans

5 Reading Comprehension Pages

Past to Present Changes Posters

Real Photo cards of the past/artifacts/comparisons

Vocabulary Review

Unit Assessment

Vocabulary Cards

- past

- present

- history

- historian

- artifact

- timeline

- Native Americans

- transportation

- President

- natural resources

- pollution

- negative consequences

- positive consequences

- point of view

Blackline Masters

- Clues to the Past

- Past vs. Present

- Vocabulary Cut & Glue

- History Detectives set

- including the "How Have We Changed" Venn Diagram set

- What's an Artifact?

- Create Your Own Timeline Project (10 half pages!)

- My Community Timeline

- My Community Then & Now

- Aspects of Community Change

- Presidential Reporters Project (4 pages)

- Problems in the Past & Present Venn Diagram

- An Important Moment in our Communities History

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2nd Grade Social Studies Chart Pack

Unit1 What is a Community?

Unit 2 - Maps, Landforms, & the World

Unit 3 - Government & Citizens

Unit 4 - Economics: Goods, Services, Resources, Businesses, Scarcity, and More!

Unit 6 - Be a Great Citizen

Communities BIG BUNDLE - ALL UNITS TOGETHER!

Core Democratic Values Lap Book

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