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Grade 2 History and Social Studies Week 11 | Teacher Guide

Grade 2 | HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES

WEEK 11 • TEACHER GUIDE AND ANSWER KEY • DAYS 51–55

Read each lesson aloud with the child and model the worked example before practice. Do not show this key during practice. Accept oral, drawn or written answers where the child cannot yet write the whole answer. On Day 55, read aloud if needed but give no hints.

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Day 51: What Are Natural Resources?

Standard: SS24.2.6

Practice record: Resources and products, printed on the Week 11 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: Is a wooden chair a natural resource? Worked answer: No. The chair is a product made from a natural resource, wood.

  1. Bricks.
  2. Trees.
  3. A natural resource comes from nature, and a product is made by people from that resource. Example: cotton plants grow in a field, and people make them into a T-shirt. Accept any correct pair with the difference explained.

Teaching note: Go on a resource hunt at home. Pick up three objects and talk about what natural resource each was made from.

Day 52: Alabama’s Forests

Standard: SS24.2.6

Practice record: Jobs that use Alabama’s forests, printed on the Week 11 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: Why is a forest called a renewable resource? Worked answer: Because new trees can be planted to replace the ones that are cut.

  1. A mill worker.
  2. Hauls them to the mill.
  3. If no new trees were planted, the forests would run out, and the loggers, drivers and mill workers would lose their work. Planting keeps the resource and the jobs going. Accept any answer linking new trees to future jobs or products.

Teaching note: Count the paper and cardboard items in one room of your home. Many of them may have started as trees in the South.

Day 53: Iron, Coal and Limestone: The Story of Birmingham

Standard: SS24.2.6

Practice record: Birmingham timeline, printed on the Week 11 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: What three natural resources are needed to make iron? Worked answer: Iron ore, coal and limestone.

  1. 1871.
  2. 11 years (1882 – 1871 = 11).
  3. Workers did not have to bring the materials from far away, so it was easier and cheaper to make iron there. Iron makers built furnaces, and people moved there for jobs. Accept any answer about saving travel or cost leading to jobs and growth.

Teaching note: Birmingham’s nickname, the Magic City, came from how quickly it grew. If you live nearby, Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark and Vulcan Park tell this story.

Day 54: From Resource to Product

Standard: SS24.2.6

Practice record: The path of peanut butter, printed on the Week 11 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: Put the steps in order for a cotton shirt: sew the shirt, grow the cotton, weave the cloth. Worked answer: Grow the cotton, weave the cloth, sew the shirt.

  1. Grow peanuts.
  2. A store worker.
  3. A farmer grows the peanuts, factory workers roast them and fill the jars, and store workers sell them. One resource creates work at each step. Accept any answer that names at least two kinds of workers.

Teaching note: In the hands-on task, accept any reasonable path. Help the child read labels, which often name where a product was made.

Day 55: Independent Check: Alabama’s Natural Resources

Standard: SS24.2.6

Practice record: Alabama resources, printed on the Week 11 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: Is coal a natural resource or a product? Worked answer: A natural resource.

  1. Making iron and steel.
  2. Coal.
  3. Example: Pine trees give jobs to loggers, truck drivers and mill workers, who earn money when the lumber is sold. Accept any resource with a job or a sale that brings in money.

Teaching note: Independent check: read aloud if needed, but give no hints.

Sources

Encyclopedia of Alabama, Forest Regions of Alabama (forests cover over 23 million acres, almost 70 percent of the state) | Encyclopedia of Alabama, Birmingham Iron and Steel Companies (coal, iron ore and limestone close together; Birmingham founded 1871) | Alabama Bicentennial Park, Industrialization (Birmingham called the Magic City; Sloss Furnace first tapped 1882) | Encyclopedia of Alabama, Modern Cotton Production in Alabama | Encyclopedia of Alabama, Peanut Production in Alabama

Week 11 Student Textbook | Week 11 Practice Workbook | Week 11 Teacher Guide | Week 10 Student Textbook | Week 12 Student Textbook | Grade 2 index