Grade 2 Science Arizona standards Standards

Key concepts include but are not limited to religion, governments, economic systems, and education

HISTORY

Key concepts include but are not limited to transportation, trade, immigration, migration, and communication

Key human features include but are not limited to equator, hemispheres, North and South Pole, cities, states, countries, regions, and landmarks

Key physical features include but are not limited to seven continents, oceans, lakes, rivers, mountain ranges, coasts, seas, and deserts

Geography

Economics

Civics

Disciplinary Skills and Processes

Life Sciences

Earth and Space Sciences

Physical Sciences

Concept: Algorithms and Programming (AP)

Subconcept: Algorithms (A)

Model daily processes by creating and following algorithms (sets of step-by-step instructions to complete tasks.

Subconcept: Control (C)

Develop programs with sequences and simple loops, to express ideas or address a problem.

Decompose (break down) the steps needed to solve a problem into a precise sequence of instructions.

Develop plans that describe a program’s sequence of events, goals, and expected outcomes.

Give attribution (credit) when using the ideas and creations of others while developing programs.

Debug (identify and fix) errors in an algorithm or program that includes sequences and simple loops.

Using correct terminology, describe steps taken and choices made during the iterative process of program (procedure) development.

Subconcept: Variables (V)

Model the way programs store and manipulate data by using numbers or other symbols to represent information.

Citizens have individual rights, roles, and responsibilities.

Describe roles and responsibilities of people in authority within our country and world.

Explain how all people, not just official leaders, play important roles in the world.

Concept: Computing Systems (CS)

Subconcept: Devices (D)

Recognize that users have different needs and preferences for technology they used by selecting and operating appropriate devices.

Subconcept: Hardware and Software (HS)

Understand how computing systems use both hardware (device) and software (program/app) to process information.

Subconcept: Troubleshooting (T)

Explain basic hardware (device) and software (program/app) problems using accurate terminology.

With teacher guidance, use basic troubleshooting strategies.

Concept: Data and Analysis (DA)

Subconcept: Collection, Visualization and Transformation (CVT)

Collect and transform data using digital devices; Display data for communication in various visual formats.

Subconcept: Inference and Models (IM)

Describe patterns in data to make inferences or predictions.

Subconcept: Storage (S)

Store, copy, search, retrieve, modify, and delete information using a computing device and define the information stored as data.

A financially literate individual understands how to manage income, spending, and investment.

Identify different occupations and skills needed in a global economy.

Describe reasons to save or spend money.

Observe and investigate how wind and water change the shape of the land resulting in a variety of landforms.

Develop and use models to represent that water can exist in different states and is found in oceans, glaciers, lakes, rivers, ponds, and the atmosphere.

Analyze patterns in weather conditions of various regions of the world and design, test, and refine solutions to protect humans from severe weather conditions.

Construct an argument from evidence regarding positive and negative changes in water and land systems that impact humans and the environment.

Observe and explain the Sun's position at different times during a twenty-four-hour period and changes in the apparent shape of the Moon from one night to another.

The domestic economy is shaped by interactions between government, institutions, and the private sector.

Describe the public services that governments provide and how they meet the needs of individuals.

The interconnected global economy impacts all individuals and groups in significant and varied ways.

Illustrate how a country’s resources determine what is produced and traded.

The use of geographic representations and tools help individuals understand their world.

Use and construct maps, graphs, and other geographic representations of familiar and unfamiliar places in the world; and locate physical and human features.

Use maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify and explain cultural and environmental characteristics of places in the world based on stories shared.

Examining human population and movement helps individuals understand past, present, and future conditions on Earth’s surface.

Explain why and how people, goods, and ideas move from place to place.

The development of civilizations, societies, cultures, and innovations have influenced history and continue to impact the modern world.

Explain how individuals can make contributions to a civilization and/or culture in place or region studied.

Using primary and secondary sources, compare civilizations and/or cultures around the world and how they have changed over time in a place or region studied.

Examine developments from the civilization and/or culture in place or region studied.

Economic, political, and religious ideas and institutions have influenced history and continue to shape the modern world.

Generate questions about the institutions and belief systems of different societies.

Concept: Impacts of Computing (IC)

Subconcept: Culture (C)

Compare how people live and work before and after the implementation or adoption of new computing technology.

Subconcept: Social Interactions (SI)

Work respectfully and responsibly with others online.

Subconcept: Safety, Law, and Ethics (SLE)

Keep login information private, and log off of devices appropriately.

Develop a model representing how life on Earth depends on energy from the Sun and energy from other organisms.

Obtain, analyze, and communicate evidence that organisms need a source of energy, air, water, and certain temperature conditions to survive.

Concept: Networks and the Internet (NI)

Subconcept: Cybersecurity (C)

Explain what passwords are and why we use them, and use strong passwords to protect devices and information from unauthorized access.

Subconcept: Network, Communication, and Organization (NCO)

Students can discuss how computer networks can be used to connect people to other people, places, information, and ideas.

Plan and carry out an investigation to determine that matter has mass, takes up space, and is recognized by its observable properties; use the collected evidence to develop and support an explanation.

Plan and carry out investigations to gather evidence to support an explanation on how heating or cooling can cause a phase change in matter.

Obtain, evaluate and communicate information about ways heat energy can cause change in objects or materials.

Chronological reasoning requires understanding processes of change and continuity over time, which means assessing similarities and differences between historical periods and between the past and present.

Create a chronological sequence of multiple events.

Understand how events of the past affect students’ lives and community.

Generate questions about individuals and groups who have shaped a significant historical change.

Thinking within the discipline involves the ability to identify, compare, and evaluate multiple perspectives about a given event to draw conclusions about that event since there are multiple points of view about events and issues.

Compare diverse cultures from around the world using primary sources such as photographs, artifacts, and music and secondary sources such as fiction and non-fiction.

Compare perspectives of people in the past to those today through stories and biographies.

Historians and Social Scientists gather, interpret, and use evidence to develop claims and answer historical, economic, geographical, and political questions and communicate their conclusions.

Identify facts and concepts associated with compelling and supporting questions.

Determine and use various kinds of sources to answer compelling and supporting questions.

Generate questions about a source as it relates to an event or development.

Gather relevant information from one or two sources.

Ask and answer questions about explanations and arguments.

Present a summary of an argument or explanation using print, oral, or digital technology.

Thinking within the discipline involves the ability to analyze relationships among causes and effects and to create and support arguments using relevant evidence.

Generate possible reasons for an event or development.

Select which reasons might be more likely than others to explain an event or development.

Subconcept: Modularity (M)

Subconcept: Program Development (PD)

Process, rules, and laws direct how individuals are governed and how society addresses problems.

Explain how people work together to identify and solve problems within our world.

Explain how rules function in public settings.

Individuals and institutions are interdependent within market systems.

Identify and describe the goods and services that are produced around the world.

Explain how people around the world earn income.

Explain how people can be producers and consumers in a global economy.

Human-environment interactions are essential aspects of human life in all societies.

Explain how weather, climate, and other environmental characteristics affect people’s lives in a place or region being studied.

Describe how human activities affect the communities and the environment of places or regions.

Describe the positive and negative effects of using natural resources.

Global interconnections and spatial patterns are a necessary part of geographic reasoning.

Identify different physical and cultural regions in the world.