Accomplishments - Culture
| 2.1.01 | Understand the diversity of human cultures. |
4 Children - A Powerpoint show that helps pupils to explore their own lives – and the world around them – by looking at the lives of four children from around the world. Wake Up World! - 4 children from around the world share a day in their lives. |
a. |
Recognize most cultures preserve important personal and public items from the past. | |
b. |
Recognize communities have customs and cultures that differ. | |
c. |
Recognize patterns of cultural traits such as language, religion, and family structure. | |
| 2.1.02 | Discuss cultures and human patterns of places and regions of the world. |
|
a. |
Identify diverse cultural groups within the communities of Tennessee. | |
b. |
Compare and contrast the cultures of Tennessee's three grand divisions. | |
c. |
Understand that Tennessee's culture has ties to other cultures in the world. | |
d. |
Recognize that cultures have strong traditions of loyalty to their region or country. | |
e. |
Compare the regional cultures of Tennessee to those of other states. | |
| 2.1.03 | Recognition the contributions of individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, religious, socioeconomic groups to the development of civilizations. |
|
a. |
Identify and explain the significance of selected stories, poems, statues, paintings, and other examples of local and state cultural heritage. | |
b. |
Examine the effects of changing technologies on the local community and state. | |
c. |
Recognize diverse cultural neighborhoods within Tennessee and America. |
Accomplishments - Economics
| 2.2.01 | Describe the potential costs and benefits of personal economic choices in a market economy. |
|
a. |
Explain how work provides income to purchase goods and services. | |
b. |
Describe how society depends upon workers with specialized jobs and the ways in which they contribute to the production and exchange of goods and services. | |
| 2.2.02 | Give examples of the interaction of individuals, businesses and governments in a market economy. |
|
a. |
Give examples of the various institutions that make up economic systems such as families, workers, banks, labor unions, government agencies, small businesses, and large corporations. | |
b. |
Recognize that communities around the state and world are economically interdependent. | |
c. |
Know the major products of Tennessee. | |
| 2.2.03 | Understand fundamental economic concepts. |
|
a. |
Categorize resources needed to operate industries. | |
b. |
Understand the necessity of importing resources needed for industry. |
Accomplishments - Geography
| 2.3.01 | Understand how to use maps, globes, and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective. |
|
a. |
Describe how the globe is a model of earth locating hemispheres, poles, and equator. | |
b. |
Recognize that natural regions are represented on different types of maps by showing physical features, climate, vegetation, and natural resources. | |
c. |
Subdivide the world by positioning the equator, continents, oceans, and hemispheres on a map and globe. | |
d. |
Recognize that a map contains elements such as title, scale, symbols, legends, grids, cardinal and intermediate direction. | |
| 2.3.02 | Recognize the interaction between human and physical systems around the world. |
|
a. |
Analyze how individuals and populations depend upon land resources. | |
b. |
Describe the importance of physical geographic features on defining communities. | |
c. |
Understand the earth-sun relationship such as the varying length of day. | |
d. |
Understand the rudimentary elements to the hydrologic cycle. | |
e. |
List earth's natural resources such as minerals, air, water, and land. | |
| 2.3.03 | Demonstrate how to identify and locate major physical and political features on globes and maps. |
|
a. |
Show how landmasses and bodies of water are represented on maps and globes. | |
b. |
Locate the state of Tennessee and its major cities on a map. | |
c. |
Name the physical and human characteristics of the neighborhood and the community. |
Accomplishments - Governance & Civics
| 2.4.01 | Discuss the structure and purposes of governance. |
|
a. |
Recognize how groups and organizations encourage unity and work with diversity to maintain order and security. | |
b. |
Identify functions of governments. | |
c. |
Be aware that every community has some form of governance. | |
d. |
Describe how governments establish order, provide security, and manage conflict. | |
| 2.4.02 | Describe the Constitution of the United States and the Tennessee State Constitution in principle and practice. |
|
a. |
Know that communities have different laws depending on the needs and problems of their community. | |
b. |
Recognize people who make laws and people who enforce them in Tennessee. | |
c. |
Identify ways that public officials are selected, including election and appointment. | |
d. |
Distinguish among local, state, and national government and identify representative leaders at these levels such as mayor, governor, and president. | |
| 2.4.03 | Understand the rights, responsibilities, and privileges of citizens living in a democratic republic. |
|
a. |
Identify characteristics of good citizenship such as establishing beliefs in justice, truth, equality, and responsibility for the common good. | |
b. |
Identify qualities of good citizenship. | |
c. |
Identify ordinary people who exemplify good citizenship. | |
| 2.4.04 | Recognize the qualities of a contributing citizen in our participatory democracy. |
|
a. |
Identify some governmental services in the community such as the libraries, schools, and parks, and explain their value to the community. | |
b. |
Explain how citizens fund various community services. | |
c. |
Explain the meaning of selected patriotic symbols and landmarks of Tennessee. |
Accomplishments - History
| 2.5.01 | Identify major events, people, and patterns Tennessee, United States, and world history. |
|
a. |
Explain the significance of various community, state, and national celebrations such as Memorial Day and Independence Day. | |
b. |
Explain how local people and events have influenced local community history. | |
| 2.5.02 | Understand the place of historical events in the context of past, present, and future. |
|
a. |
Describe the order of events by using designation of time periods such as ancient times and modern times. | |
b. |
Use vocabulary related to chronology, including past, present and future. | |
c. |
Describe and measure calendar time by days, weeks, months, and years. | |
d. |
Comprehend that physical and human characteristics of communities change over time. | |
| 2.5.03 | Explain how to use historical information acquired from a variety of sources. |
|
a. |
Identify and explain the significance of various community landmarks. | |
b. |
Create and interpret timelines. | |
c. |
Compare various interpretations of the same time period using evidence such as photographs and interviews. |
Accomplishments - Individuals, Groups, & Interactions
| 2.6.01 | Recognize the impact of individual and group decisions on citizens and communities. |
|
a. |
Describe how groups work independently and cooperatively to accomplish goals within a community. | |
b. |
Recognize individuals can belong to groups but still have their own identity. | |
c. |
Know how to share and give opinions in a group. | |
| 2.6.02 | Understand how groups can cause change at the local, state national and world levels. | |
a. |
Identify and describe ways family, groups, and community influence an individual's daily life and personal choices. | |
b. |
Recognize individuals have a role in each group in which they participate. | |
c. |
Recognize that each individual must make decisions about the work groups and play groups in which they participate |