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Social Studies — Grade 2
Goal 5, Objective 5.02
Resources aligned to this objective
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- Getting lost
- Students practice their knowledge of the cardinal directions by describing the directions in their classroom. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Information Skills and Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Geographic
- Geography skills and your town
- In this Xpeditions lesson, students relate the five themes of geography (location, place, human/environment interaction, movement, and regions) to their own home town. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Geographic
- Exploring physical and human characteristics of earth's spaces
- Students travel around the world on a visual scavenger hunt. First select a handful of important natural and cultural characteristics of places. Then ask them to search through magazines such as National Geographic for photographs that illustrate the range... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Social Studies)
- Provided by: Xpeditions
- Explore your state with maps
- In this Xpeditions lesson, students create maps of their state using information from National Geographic's MapMachine. They then make their own maps from memory after studying the original maps they created. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Geographic
- Caribou migration
- Students will learn some basic facts about caribou and map the migration route of the Porcupine caribou herd of Alaska and northwestern Canada. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Science and Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Geographic
- Big island pool: Igneous rocks and the anatomy of a volcano
- Students will learn about the rocks that are formed when a volcano erupts: igneous rocks. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Science and Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Geographic
- Arctic terns from north to south
- Students map the arctic tern's migration route and consider why it migrates so far. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Science and Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Geographic
