Washington State
Social Studies GLEs
Grade 2
Fall 2008
OSPI Suggested Grade 2 Units:
Our Community
Communities Meeting
Their Needs and Wants
Social Studies EALR 1: CIVICS
Component 1.1
GLE 1.1.1
Examples:
GLE 1.1.2
Examples:
Component 1.2
GLE 1.2.1
Examples:
GLE 1.2.2
Examples:
GLE 1.2.3
No Grade 2 GLE
GLE 1.2.4
No Grade 2 GLE
Component
1.3
GLE 1.3.1
No Grade 2 GLE
Component 1.4
GLE 1.4.1
Examples:
Explains that citizens have the responsibility to take care of the environment in the community.
The student understands and applies knowledge of government, law, politics, and the nation’s fundamental documents to make
decisions about local, national, and international issues and to demonstrate thoughtful, participatory citizenship.
Explains what effect following park rules has on the common good.
Understands the purpose, organization of international relationships and United States foreign policy
.
Explains that cities are governed by mayors and city councils.
Explains the police and judges enforce laws.
Explains that city governments make and enforce laws to support a safe community.
Explains that city governments support local businesses and neighborhoods by improving
and maintaining streets and sidewalks.
Understands the basic function of government and laws in the community.
Understands key ideals and principles of the United States, including those in the Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution, and other fundamental documents.
Understands the key ideal of public or common good within the context of the community
.
Applies the key ideal of the public or common good to uphold rights and responsibilities within the context
of the community.
Explains one’s responsibility to obey the law of not littering for the public good of the community.
Understands the purposes, organizations, and functions of governments, laws and political systems
.
Understands the basic organization of government in the community.
Understands civic involvement.
Understands that citizenship and civic involvement in the neighborhood and community are the rights and
responsibilities of individuals.
Explains how people can respect the rights of others to live safely in the neighborhood by obeying
speed limits.
Explains that citizens have the right to live safe community.
Explains that citizens have the responsibility to obey the laws of the community.
Washington State
Social Studies GLEs
Grade 2
Fall 2008
Social Studies EALR 2: ECONOMICS
Component 2.1
GLE 2.1.1
Examples:
Component 2.2
GLE 2.2.1
Examples:
GLE 2.2.2
Component 2.3
GLE 2.3.1
Component 2.4
GLE 2.4.1
Explains how people's choices of purchasing goods from a large business can result in
the loss of smaller businesses.
Understands that members of the community make choices among products and services that have
costs and benefits.
Understands that people have to make choices between wants and needs and evaluate the outcomes of those
choices.
The student applies understanding of economic concepts and systemsto analyze decision-making and he interactions between
individuals, households, governments, and societies.
Explains how the costs and benefits that food banks and thrift stores provide for people in
the communities.
Explains that goods sold in stores in the local community are used by people living in the
community to meet their needs and wants.
Explains that people in communities are consumers of the public safety services that
police officers or fire fighters provide.
Understands the basic elements of a community’s economic system, including producers, distributors,
and consumers of goods and services.
No Grade 2 GLE
Understands the economic issues and problems that all societies face.
No Grade 2 GLE
Understands the government’s role in the economy.
No Grade 2 GLE
Understands how economic systems function.
Washington State
Social Studies GLEs
Grade 2
Fall 2008
Social Studies EALR 3: GEOGRAPHY
Component 3.1
GLE 3.1.1
Examples:
GLE 3.1.2
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Component 3.2
GLE 3.2.1
Examples:
GLE 3.2.2
GLE 3.2.3
Component 3.3
GLE 3.3.1
Understands the geographic context of global issues and events.
No Grade 2 GLE
Explains how people affect their environment by clearing land or developing farm land to
meet their need for homes and businesses.
No Grade 2 GLE
No Grade 2 GLE
Understands the physical characteristics of places in the community.
Explains how people affect the community’s environment by making parks for recreation.
Understands the interactions between humans and environments.
Understands that people in communities affect the environment as they meet their needs and wants.
Describes the physical characteristics such as rivers, lakes, mountains, and parks of the
community in which they live.
Understands the location, physical characteristics, cultural characteristics, and spatial patterns of places and
region son the Earth's surface.
Constructs maps that display information about local community using a compass rose,
labels, and a key.
Explains how maps of the local community can be used to describe where people live and
where businesses are located.
Understands and applies basic mapping elements such as symbols, compass rose, labels, and a key to
read and construct maps that display information about neighborhoods or local communities.
The student uses a spatial perspective to make reasoned decisions by applying the concpets of location, region, and movement
and demonstrating knowledge of how geographic freatures and human cultures impact environments.
Washington State
Social Studies GLEs
Grade 2
Fall 2008
Social Studies EALR 4: HISTORY
Component 4.1
GLE 4.1.1
Examples:
GLE 4.1.2
Component 4.2
GLE 4.2.1
Examples:
GLE 4.2.2
GLE 4.2.3
Component 4.3
GLE 4.3.1
GLE 4.3.2
Component 4.4
GLE 4.4.1
Creates and explains a community timeline that displays events that are still celebrated or
remembered today.
Understands historical chronology.
Understands and creates timelines for events in a community to show how the present is connected to
the past.
The student understands and applies knowledge of historical thinking, chronology, eras, turning points, major ideas, individuals,
and themes of local, Washington State, tribal, United States, and world history in order to evaluate how history shapes the present
and future.
Understands that there are multiple perspectives and interpretations of historical events.
No Grade 2 GLE
No Grade 2 GLE
Uses history to understand the present and plan for the future.
No Grade 2 GLE
No Grade 2 GLE
Understand and analyzes causal factors that have shaped major events in history.
Understands individuals who have shaped history in the local community.
No Grade 2 GLE
Explains how Marcus and Narcissa Whitman played a role in the settlement of Walla Walla
Explains how Chief Sealth played a role in the development of Seattle as a city.
No Grade 2 GLE
Washington State
Social Studies GLEs
Grade 2
Fall 2008
Social Studies EARL 5: SS SKILLS
Component 5.1
GLE 5.1.1
Examples:
GLE 5.1.2
Component 5.2
GLE 5.2.1
GLE 5.2.2
Component 5.3
GLE 5.3.1
Examples:
Component 5.4
GLE 5.4.1
GLE 5.4.2
No Grade 2 GLE
Engages in discussions to learn about different points of view on neighborhood recycling.
Engages in discussions to learn about different points of view on where to building parks in the
community.
No Grade 2 GLE
No Grade 2 GLE
Engages in discussions to learn about different points of view on issues.
Creates a product that uses social studies content to support a thesis and presents the product in an appropriate manner to a
meaningful audience.
No Grade 2 GLE
Deliberates public issues.
Uses critical reasoning skills to analyze and evaluate positions.
Understands points of view on issues in the community.
No Grade 2 GLE
Uses inquiry-based research.
Explains points of view about how to stop littering.
The student understands and applies reasoning skills to conduct research, deliberate, form, and evaluate positions through the
process of reading, writing, and communicating.