Social Studies Secular Homeschool Curriculum Skills List | Second Grade

Social Studies concepts create the themes for some of the units within Second Grade Complete. The activities and discussion questions stimulate higher-level thinking and encourage understanding of the concepts.

• Know name, address, and phone number.
• Identify city, state, and country of residence.
• Recite pledges.
• Understand how to show respect for our American flag.
• Understand that people are special and have feelings.
• Understand that people are different.
• Learn about America’s original colonies.
• Understand the significance of a patriotic song.
• Place important events in chronological order on a timeline.
• Recognize and learn about the Northeast states.
• Learn about historical figures.
• Develop basic map skills.
• Identify locations on a United States map.
• Use a compass rose on a map.
• Plot coordinate locations on a map.
• Use maps and photos to identify and locate major landmarks or major physical features of the United States.
• Design a map of a town.
• Learn about national landmarks in Washington D.C.
• Identify components of a world map.
• Develop an understanding of basic economic principles.
• Understand how people make economic choices.
• Classify materials as natural resources, capital resources, or human resources.
• Differentiate between a producer and a consumer.
• Identify businesses in the local community.
• Describe how businesses in the local community meet economic wants of consumers.
• Learn about scarcity and surplus.
• Learn about pioneers.
• Compare and contrast pioneer lifestyle to today.
• Learn about Native Americans.
• Make and play a Native American game.
• Recognize contributions of famous missionaries.
• Understand the role of cowboys in settling the west.
• Learn about rivers.
• Learn about national parks.
• Recognize, name, and locate continents and oceans on a world map.
• Learn about Africa.
• Learn about mountains.
• Make a model of a canyon.
• Learn about the Underground Railroad.