Framingham Public Schools

Second Grade Curriculum Outcomes

Language Arts | Math | Science | Social Studies | Art | Music | Physical Education

Social Studies

Second graders will . . .

• begin to acquire the necessary skills to read and create maps, charts, graphs, and timelines.
• engage in activities that develop geographic understandings based on the Five Themes of Geography – location, place, human/environment interaction, movement, and regions.
• develop the concept of community.
• explore different types of communities.
• study a community of long ago.
• develop an appreciation of diversity and history through the study of holidays and famous people, with emphasis on President’s Day and the study of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.
• read and write across the social studies curriculum.