Arkansas's Second Grade Standards

Standards

  • AR.G. Strand/content Standard: Geography

    • G.1. Standard/student Learning Expectation: Physical and Spatial

      Students shall develop an understanding of the physical and spatial characteristics and applications of geography.
      • G.1.2.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Define relative location.
      • G.1.2.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Locate the county in which the student lives on an Arkansas map.
      • G.1.2.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Locate the capital of Arkansas.
      • G.1.2.4. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Identify and locate countries bordering the United States.
      • G.1.2.5. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Locate and define the North and South Poles and the Equator on a map of globe.
      • G.1.2.6. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Locate the seven continents using a map or globe.
      • G.1.2.7. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Name and locate the four major oceans.
      • G.1.2.8. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Location, Place, and Region
        Describe how climate changes with the seasons.
      • G.1.2.9. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
        Distinguish between different types of maps: physical political historical.
      • G.1.2.10. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
        Understand the purpose of map components: title, compass rose, key/legend, and map scale.
      • G.1.2.11. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
        Describe the relative locations of places using cardinal directions (e.g., Arkansas is south of Missouri).
      • G.1.2.12. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
        Identify and locate physical features on maps and globes: rivers, lakes, oceans, mountains, islands, desert, and coast.
      • G.1.2.13. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Map and Globe Skills
        Construct maps of a familiar place (e.g. classroom, bedroom, fictional place) that includes the following: title, compass rose, and legend/key.

    • G.2. Standard/student Learning Expectation: Culture and Diversity

      Students shall develop an understanding of how cultures around the world develop and change.
      • G.2.2.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Culture and Diversity
        Compare customs of another culture to one's own.
      • G.2.2.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Culture and Diversity
        Compare the lifestyle, dress, and occupations of Arkansans to those of people in other parts of the world.
      • G.2.2.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Culture and Diversity
        Compare and contrast how people in rural and urban areas live and work.

    • G.3. Standard/student Learning Expectation: Interaction of People and the Environment

      Students shall develop an understanding of the interactions between people and their environment.
      • G.3.2.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Movement
        Identify the various types of transportation and communication links between communities.
      • G.3.2.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Human Environment Interaction
        Explore the roles of responsible citizens in preserving the environment: recycling, planting trees, and conserving energy.
      • G.3.2.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Human Environment Interaction
        Examine ways in which people affect the physical environment.

  • AR.C. Strand/content Standard: Civics

    • C.4. Standard/student Learning Expectation: Government

      Students shall develop an understanding of the forms and roles of government.
      • C.4.2.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Forms and Roles of Government
        Explain the basic purposes of government at the local level.
      • C.4.2.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Forms and Roles of Government
        Identify various people and groups who make, apply, and enforce rules and laws for others.
      • C.4.2.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Forms and Roles of Government
        Identify local government officials (e.g., mayor, city manager, county judge, sheriff).
      • C.4.2.4. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Forms and Roles of Government
        Define democracy.

    • C.5. Standard/student Learning Expectation: Citizenship

      Students shall develop an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
      • C.5.2.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Roots of Democracy
        Understand the significance of national symbols (e.g., National Anthem, Liberty Bell, Pledge of Allegiance, American Flag, Statue of Liberty, United States Constitution).
      • C.5.2.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
        Examine the rights and responsibilities that citizens have in a community (e.g., obey laws, voting in elections).
      • C.5.2.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
        Explain the voter's role in the democratic process.
      • C.5.2.4. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
        Identify rules of etiquette for the American flag.

  • AR.H. Strand/content Standard: History

    • H.6. Standard/student Learning Expectation: History

      Students shall analyze significant ideas, events, and people in world, national, state, and local history and how they affect change over time.
      • H.6.2.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Regionalism/ Nationalism
        Explain the purpose in celebrating national holidays: Labor Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving, Columbus Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, President's Day, Independence Day, and Constitution Day .
      • H.6.2.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Regionalism/ Nationalism
        Identify state symbols of Arkansas: gem, mineral, rock, mammal, and anthem.
      • H.6.2.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Regionalism and Nationalism
        Discuss historical people of Arkansas (e.g., Bill Clinton, Daisy Bates, Sequoia).
      • H.6.2.4. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Conflict and Consensus
        Define conflict.
      • H.6.2.5. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Determine the data to be included on a personal timeline.
      • H.6.2.6. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Determine how photos and documents are used to gather information about the past.
      • H.6.2.7. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Define technology and list examples.
      • H.6.2.8. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Describe the ways in which communities have changed over time.
      • H.6.2.9. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Identify reasons Pilgrims came to the New World: religious freedom and political freedom.
      • H.6.2.10. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Discuss the characteristics of a colony.
      • H.6.2.11. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Recognize American Indian tribes of Arkansas: Osage, Quapaw, and Caddo.
      • H.6.2.12. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Continuity and Change
        Compare past and present means of transportation and communication in Arkansas.
      • H.6.2.13. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Movement
        Identify areas settled as a result of Christopher Columbus' voyages to America.
      • H.6.2.14. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Movement
        Identify Ferdinand and Isabella and their purpose in supporting Columbus: gold, silk, and spices.
      • H.6.2.15. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Cultural Diversity and Uniformity
        Understand the significance of the Thanksgiving feast to the relationship between the American Indians and the Pilgrims.

  • AR.E. Strand/content Standard: Economics

    • E.7. Standard/student Learning Expectation: Choices

      Students shall analyze the costs and benefits of making economic choices.
      • E.7.2.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Cost and Benefits
        Describe an event or situation in daily life in which a trade off is made.
      • E.7.2.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Cost and Benefits
        Discuss that because of scarcity people must make choices and incur opportunity costs.
      • E.7.2.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Cost and Benefits
        Discuss making choices based on incentives/rewards

    • E.8. Standard/student Learning Expectation: Resources

      Students shall evaluate the use and allocation of human, natural, and capital resources.
      • E.8.2.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Factors of Production
        Distinguish between consumers and producers in a local community.
      • E.8.2.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Factors of Production
        Research the skills and education needed for specific jobs.
      • E.8.2.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Factors of Production
        Discuss the availability of natural resources.
      • E.8.2.4. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Factors of Production
        Give examples of capital resources.

    • E.9. Standard/student Learning Expectation: Markets

      Students shall analyze the exchange of goods and services and the roles of governments, businesses, and individuals in the market place.
      • E.9.2.1. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Financial Markets
        Identify items that have been used as currency (e.g., shells, beads, pelts).
      • E.9.2.2. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Financial Markets
        Understand that the use of money facilitates exchange.
      • E.9.2.3. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Financial Markets
        Discuss a variety of services that financial institutions provide.
      • E.9.2.4. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Goods and Services
        Classify productive resources into the following categories: natural resources, human resources, and capital resources.
      • E.9.2.5. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Goods and Services
        Investigate goods and services provided by markets in the local community.
      • E.9.2.6. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Goods and Services
        Identify exchanges made: monetary and barter.
      • E.9.2.7. Student Learning Expectation/benchmark: Goods and Services
        Define specialization and interdependence