Grade 2 History and Social Studies Unit 2 | Teacher Guide and Answers

Grade 2 History and Social Studies Unit 2 | Teacher Guide and Answers

Teach one lesson and eight questions daily. Use a real age-appropriate map when available and clearly label the unit’s imaginary examples. For Day 5, award one point per response and accept accurate equivalent wording. Six of eight is a suggested teaching guide, not a validated proficiency score.

Source record: Original explanations and questions. Factual references: U.S. Geological Survey, Finding Your Way With Map and Compass and Encyclopedia of Alabama, River Systems and Watersheds of Alabama. Links point to publishers; no source images or passages are reproduced.

Day 1: Maps show places

1. A drawing or picture showing selected places and features.
2. What the map is about.
3. What the symbols mean.
4. A mark or picture that stands for something else.
5. A school.
6. A river.
7. No.
8. No.

Day 2: Directions

1. North, south, east and west.
2. North.
3. South.
4. East.
5. West.
6. North.
7. South.
8. A map can be turned or use a different orientation.

Day 3: Alabama and its places

1. The United States.
2. A state.
3. Examples: a river, hill, forest or coast.
4. Tennessee River.
5. Natural.
6. Human-made.
7. No.
8. Answers vary; for example, finding a place or route.

Day 4: Map scale and distance

1. Map distance and ground distance.
2. 2 miles.
3. 4 miles.
4. 6 miles.
5. No, they are practice numbers.
6. No.
7. The map scale and whether it has been resized.
8. A map is a smaller representation of a place.

Day 5: Independent map check

1. The meanings of map symbols.
2. North.
3. East.
4. Natural.
5. Tennessee River.
6. 2 miles.
7. 4 miles.
8. The star is a symbol, and the school is a real place.

Reteaching and extension

Draw a simple north-up map together and practice using the key and directions. Use counters to model two groups of two miles for the fictional scale. Ask the learner to describe what a map cannot tell them.