Grade 2 Social Studies Units

Explore Grade 2 Social Studies unit plans with standards-aligned lessons that build community awareness, map skills, and early civic understanding.

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Unit Plan 36 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Cumulative Synthesis & Exhibition

Explore key Grade 2 Social Studies ideas—citizenship, maps, history, and economics—as students create interactive “Civic Fair” displays to showcase their year-long learning.

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Unit Plan 35 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Citizenship in Action

Help students explore fairness, cooperation, equality, and everyday citizenship through stories, meetings, and role-plays that show how their choices keep the classroom safe, kind, and fair.

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Unit Plan 34 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Working Together for Change

Students explore how people of all ages strengthen their communities through service, kindness, and small civic actions, practicing teamwork, respect, and simple decision-making to plan a class service project.

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Unit Plan 33 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Caring for Our Planet and People

Teach students how reusing, reducing, and recycling protect land, water, animals, and people, as they identify local environmental problems and take simple civic actions to care for their community.

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Unit Plan 32 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Natural and Human Resources

Explore how everyday products are made by connecting natural, human, and capital resources to the community’s factories, stores, roads, and other human-made features that help create and move goods.

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Unit Plan 31 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Choices and Trade

Help students explore needs, wants, choices, trade, and opportunity cost through simple classroom simulations that show how limited resources shape decisions.

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Unit Plan 30 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Why People Work

Help students explore why people work, how they earn, save, and spend money, and how choices involve opportunity cost, using stories, sorting activities, and simple class simulations.

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Unit Plan 29 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Producers and Consumers

Teach students to identify producers and consumers, sort goods and services, and recognize the natural, human, and capital resources behind everyday products and community jobs.

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Unit Plan 28 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Needs and Wants

Teach students the difference between needs and wants and how limited resources require making choices, using picture sorts, stories, and a class “store” to practice smart decision-making.

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Unit Plan 27 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Midyear Review—People, Progress, and Change

Review timelines, past/present changes, important people and holidays, and family traditions as students use photos, maps, and simple sources to show how communities grow and change over time.

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Unit Plan 26 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Leaders and Problem Solvers

Explore historical figures and community leaders who solved problems and served others, helping students understand why they’re remembered and how leaders support communities today.

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Unit Plan 25 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Inventions That Changed Lives

Explore how inventions, tools, and transportation have changed life over time, helping students learn about needs, wants, jobs, and the natural, human, and capital resources behind technology.

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Unit Plan 24 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Stories About the Past

Learn local and state history through books, photos, and oral stories as students practice identifying who, what, where, when, and why to retell key events.

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Unit Plan 23 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Change Over Time in Our Community

Explore how communities change over time by comparing past and present photos, artifacts, and accounts while learning to choose helpful, trustworthy evidence.

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Unit Plan 22 (Grade 2 Social Studies): How Families Preserve Traditions

Discover how families keep traditions alive through stories, celebrations, foods, and activities, while students learn to ask meaningful questions and share their own cultural traditions.

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Unit Plan 21 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Celebrating Important People and Events

Explore holidays, leaders, and symbols that honor fairness and freedom, helping students understand why we celebrate important people and events and how traditions show respect.

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Unit Plan 20 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Then and Now—Homes and Schools

Compare homes, schools, and communities from long ago and today using photos, artifacts, and simple maps, highlighting human-made features and how they’ve changed over time.

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Unit Plan 19 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Sequencing Our Lives

Create personal timelines with labeled events and dates to help students understand sequencing, before/after, past vs. present, and how their own life story unfolds over time.

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Unit Plan 18 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Midyear Inquiry Project—Our Place in the World

Create a class “World Wall” that blends mapmaking, environmental care, and civic responsibility as students explore their classroom, neighborhood, community, and world.

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Unit Plan 17 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Learning from Maps and Globes

Learn continents and oceans with simple maps, legends, and cardinal directions while evaluating which tools are most helpful for exploring the world.

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Unit Plan 16 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Caring for Our Environment

Help grade 2 students protect land, water, and wildlife by identifying environmental problems, practicing conservation habits, and planning a simple class civic action to care for their community.

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Unit Plan 15 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Human-Made vs. Natural Features

Identify and sort natural and human-made features, locate them on maps, and explain how local geography shapes where people build and how communities function.

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Unit Plan 14 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Weather and How We Adapt

Explore local weather and seasonal patterns, how they shape clothing and activities, and simple ways people adapt to and care for their environment in any conditions.

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Unit Plan 13 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Cities, Suburbs, and Rural Places

Compare cities, suburbs, and rural communities by exploring their features, how people adapt to each environment, and simple ways everyone can help care for the planet.

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Unit Plan 12 (Grade 2 Social Studies): Our Town and Its Features

Help students explore their town by identifying landmarks, streets, and buildings, comparing community types, and understanding how human-made features like roads and bridges support daily life.