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Links to C7's Thematic Units
Here you
will find a vast amount of helpful, fun, and interactive
websites that follow our 2nd grade curriculum. I
encourage every student to enrich his or her learning by
exploring websites that relate to our current unit of study.
    
Unit 1: Family
Traditions
& Sharing Stories
One of the best ways to
engage children in history is by involving them in
activities related to their own life's experiences. This
unit gives students an opportunity to study history through
a familiar and relevant topic: families. Students will
explore family roots, traditions, and how daily life has
changed and remained the same. Student will learn how to
think critically about history by examining primary sources
such as artifacts and photographs.
They will also learn how
interviewing another person is one way to investigate the
past. Students will begin to see their place in history and
how family history helps to define who we are as individuals
and as members of a larger society. Finally, students will
have a chance to study the daily lives of people, ideally
their own ancestors, who lived long ago and compare it to
their lives and the lives of their parents and grandparents.
Developing historical knowledge gives a child insight into
seeing his or her place in time and the bonds that tie him
or her to the past.
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Unit 2:
Kindness and Making Laws
Unit
This unit combines our
Kindness Open Court Unit with Social Studies: Making
and Carrying Out Laws. Learning about kindness and
knowing when, where, why and how to express it is crucial to
young children's social and personal growth. Students
will understand what it means to be kind and what it means
to be unkind. They will learn that being kind involves
more than the act itself...it involves a person's
intentions.
Similarly, in Social Studies, students have been learning
that being a good citizen involves acting in certain ways.
In this unit, 2nd graders will learn about electing the
people who make the laws, carry out the laws, and enforce
the laws. They will learn about the Three Branches of
Government and will learn about the specific duties of the
president of the United States.
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Unit
3: Animal Camouflage &
How Living things Grow and
Change
This thematic unit includes our
Open Court Unit: Animal Camouflage and the Science Unit: How
Living Things Grow and Change. Students will learn
about plants and animals' lifecycles. Students will
also learn how animals adapt to their habitats and how they
use camouflage to protect themselves from their predators as
well as to hide from their prey.
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Unit 4:
Rocks and Fossils
In our thematic Language Arts and Science Unit: "Let's Be
Paleontologists!" students will learn about fossils and how
they are wordless clues to our past. They will learn
about the different types of fossils and research specific
dinosaurs. In science, students will learn about rocks
and minerals and how to classify them into the three main
groups. In addition, they will learn how earth changes
over time and how rocks and fossils are effected.
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Unit
5: Heroes and
Courage
In this unit, students will learn about the men and women
whose achievements have made a direct or indirect influence
in the students' lives. This will include heroes from long
ago and the recent past as well as people who are currently
active in the local community.
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Unit 6:
Our Country and Its People
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