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🗺️ 2nd Grade · Social StudiesD2.Geo.2.K-2Unit 1: Kinds of communities

Community places

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🎯 Objective: Students map important places in a community.

Lesson outline

  1. Build a cardboard town.
  2. Map it.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: one important place.

Lesson 2 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.Geo.2.K-2

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Compare urban, suburban and rural communities
  • Describe how people change their environment

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Kinds of communities”

  1. Urban, suburban, rural
  2. Community places
  3. People change the land

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