Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Welcome to Discovery School web page.  Both the Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten Curricula recognize children as active learners, eager and curious scholars filled with a spontaneous interest in learning, creating and experimenting. Social development, combined with a hint of academics, is the essential ingredient of our Pre-Kindergarten program. Daily classroom activities and interactions allow children to learn about themselves, their peers and the world around them. Through play and simulation of real life experiences, children test ideas, solve problems and learn to cooperate with one another. They also develop communication, motor and cognitive skills.  Expectations remain high that Discovery School will maintain its excellent program.  Standardized test scores have risen significantly and the children are well prepared, both academically and socially, for entrance into first grade.
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Curriculum » Social Studies » Grade 2 Goals
GOAL 1: The learner will demonstrate the ability to understand the world in spatial terms.
  1. Demonstrate an understanding of location (6.5: A, B)
    1. Identify relative and absolute location
    2. Identify factors influencing location
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of place (6.5: A, B)
    1. Identify physical features
    2. Identify human or cultural features
  3. Demonstrate an understanding of human-environment interactions (6.5: B, C, D, E)
    1. Identify seasons and climate
    2. Identify land use and natural resources
    3. Identify effects of conservation and pollution
  4. Demonstrate an understanding of movement (6.5: D 1)
    1. Understand immigration, colonization, settlement patterns (people)
    2. Understand trade (products)
    3. Understand cultural borrowing and cultural diffusion (ideas)
  5. Demonstrate an understanding of regions (6.5: B)
    1. Identify physical regions
    2. Identify cultural regions
    3. Identify political regions
    4. Identify economic regions

GOAL 2: The learner will demonstrate historical understanding.
  1. Demonstrate an understanding of time patterns and relationships among Events (6.2: A)
    1. Identify sequence of events
    2. Identify chronology
    3. Identify cause and effect
  2. Identify and use historical evidence (6.2: A)
    1. Determine types of evidence
    2. Evaluate quality of evidence
  3. Understand the importance of individuals across time and place (6.3: B)
    1. Identify leaders and achievers
    2. Understand that all people make a difference
    3. Identify founders and first persons
    4. Recognize contributors to change
  4. Understand the importance of events across time and place (6.2, 6.3)
    1. Identify innovations and inventions
  5. Understand the times in which people lived (6.3: A 1-4)
    1. Appreciate historical empathy
  6. Understand origins, spread, and influence (6.3: A 1-4)
    1. Describe growth and expansion
  7. Understand the connection between past and present (6.2: 1, 2, 4)
  8. Make comparisons between past and present (6.2: 1; 6.3: A)

GOAL 3: The learner will demonstrate the ability to understand civic life, politics, and government.
  1. Understand patriotic identity (6.1: B 2)
    1. Identify flags, symbols, anthems, mottoes, and pledges
    2. Appreciate patriotic customs, celebrations, and traditions
  2. Understand civic values (6.1: A 2)
    1. Recognize and respect authority figures
    2. Accept and respect others
    3. Work for the common good
  3. Understand the democratic principles (6.1: A 6)
    1. Identify citizens as the source of government's authority
    2. Identify the principles of government by law
  4. Understand rights and freedoms of citizens (6.1: A 1, 3, 4)
    1. Identify voting rights, property rights, civil rights and human rights
    2. Recognize freedom of expression, worship, assembly, and movement
  5. Understand the responsibilities of citizens (6.1: A 3)
    1. Identify voluntary responsibilities (voting, keeping informed)
    2. Identify responsibilities under the law (obeying laws, paying taxes)
  6. Understand the purposes of government (6.1: A 1)
    1. Recognize that government promotes order and security
    2. Recognize that government promotes well being and common good
    3. Recognize that government provides for distribution of benefits and burdens of society.
    4. Recognize that government provides the means for peaceful conflict resolution
    5. Recognize that government protects rights and freedoms of individuals
  7. Understand democratic institutions (6.1: A 3)
    1. Identify levels of government
    2. Identify branches of government
    3. Identify government bodies
    4. Identify government services and activities
    5. Identify government documents
  8. Understand democratic processes (6.1: A 1, 2)
    1. Identify how rules and laws are made, amended, and removed
    2. Identify how laws are enforced
    3. Understand the voting and election process

GOAL 4: The learner will demonstrate the ability to understand economic literacy.
  1. Understand scarcity and economic choice (6.4: A 1-3, 5-9)
    1. Identify wants and basic needs
    2. Identify goods and services
    3. Identify production and consumption
    4. Identify trade-offs and opportunity cost
    5. Identify economic resources
    6. Identify spending and saving techniques
    7. Identify conservation techniques
  2. Understand interdependence and income (6.4: C 1)
    1. Identify transportation and communication links
    2. Identify mediums of exchange (barter and use of money)
    3. Describe trade
  3. Understand markets and prices (6.4: A 9; 6.4: B 4)
    1. Describe supply and demand
  4. Understanding productivity and economic growth (6.4: B 1)
    1. Describe kinds of work (jobs)
    2. Identify division of labor and specialization
    3. Describe production process
    4. Describe effects of technology
  5. Understanding economic systems and institutions (6.4: B 2)
    1. Identify public and private property
    2. Describe taxes
    3. Describe free enterprise and entrepreneurship

GOAL 5: The learner will demonstrate the ability to understand culture.
  1. Understanding ideas of shared humanity and unique identity (6.2)
    1. Describe culture and cultural identity
    2. Describe customs and traditions
    3. Describe cultural diversity and pluralism
    4. Identify multicultural societies
  2. Understanding social organizations and institutions (6.2)
    1. Appreciate the importance of belonging to groups
    2. Appreciate the importance of family and community
    3. Identify social class structures
    4. Describe roles (gender, age, occupation)
    5. Describe education
  3. Understanding means of thought and expression (6.2)
    1. Develop an appreciation for art, literature, music, dance, and architecture
    2. Identify and demonstrate appropriate behavior
    3. Describe language and communication
    4. Identify and describe recreation
  4. Understanding human relationships (6.2)
    1. Describe relationships between and among individuals
    2. Describe relationships within a culture or society
    3. Describe relationships between and among cultures or societies
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