Quarter 3
Second Grade FOCUS: Social Studies
Thinking and Academic Success Skills: Intellectual Risk Taking and Flexible Thinking
January 23March 22
What question do we ask ourselves?
 How has technology changed?
 How does technology affect the way people live, work, and play?
 How do people obtain goods and services?
 What are the consequences of economic choices?
 How do producers use natural, capital, and human resources to
produce goods and services?
 How do producers make decisions about the production process?
What words do we need to know to master the objectives?
technology
services
economic systems
natural resources
needs vs. wants
producers
goods
human resources
transportation
What do we need to know and be able to do?
o Identify examples of technology and how they affect the
people live, work, and play
o Explain how and why consumers use technology in their
daily lives
o Compare past and present forms of transportation and
communication
o Describe different types of markets and how consumers
acquire goods and services
o Explain production processes
consumers
services
capital resources
communication
What resources will we use?
Poems
Non-fiction texts
Videos
Computers
Reading Non-fiction texts
Pictures
Online Resources
Use of technology
Posters
Magazines
How will we master the objectives?
Role playing
Researching various types of technology
Identify, sort and classify types of resources, transportation, and
communication
Working in collaborative groups to solve problems