Second Grade Social Studies

About Grade 2 Social Studies

Grade 2 social studies (2nd grade, ages 7–8) is 40 lessons in 5 units: My Community and Country (lessons 1–8), The World Around Us (lessons 9–16), Economy and Work (lessons 17–24), Time and History (lessons 25–32), and finally Projects and Global Action (lessons 33–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to identify traditional music and art forms from different countries, explain the difference between a need (something required to survive) and a want (something desired but not required) and put transportation types in order from oldest to newest.

Start here: Lesson 1: Explore Our Local Community is free to open and print. Every other lesson has a free preview of its mini lesson and vocabulary.

Paper first: each lesson is printed before you call your child. You read it once and talk it through, your child does the exercises on paper, and you correct together with the Parent checklist — about 45 minutes at the table. The next day, a 10-minute screen review of the same lesson.