This page highlights supplemental resources from The Austin Public Library that fit AISD lesson Units for 2nd Grade.
Resources in Spanish are available here.
Essential Questions
In this unit, students will understand and apply what it means to be a good citizen and make a positive difference in their home, their classroom, their digital learning environment, and their local community. Members of these communities will have the opportunity to share their identities and experiences and begin developing an understanding of their personal schema. In describing how people and events have influenced history and shaped their community, such as the role of a scientist, students will determine characteristics of citizenship and how their actions influence others. By identifying characteristics through character traits (internal and external), students will demonstrate their understanding of good citizenship and determine their role as a citizen.
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Understanding and learning from different people and cultures is important in accepting and appreciating variety in a diverse cultural landscape. In this unit, students will explore how their personal lifestyle, and the lifestyles of others, continues to contribute to the broader American identity and will encourage curiosity in the world around them. Discovering various cultures, customs, and traditions can lend itself to the development of hands-on exploration and the creation of projects. Students can utilize two-dimensional shapes and three dimensional solids to create products representing various cultures, such as fall and winter holiday artifacts or symbols. Students can also study how geographic location impacts the availability of certain foods and resources influencing cultural traditions.
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People and events have influenced history through science and technology which impact our global economy. In this unit, students will read and interact with various forms of traditional literature and explore their influence in today’s society. Students will be introduced to the free enterprise system and learn more about the relationship between income, labor, wages, spending, and saving. They will learn about the value of work by focusing on how employment provides income through the use of economic terms such as producers, consumers, goods, and services. Students can study how various natural resources become completed goods. Responsible consumerism requires such knowledge as the ability to budget money, an understanding of bartering, and how money is used to buy and sell goods and services.
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While change can seem scary, it is inevitable and imperative to the growth and sustainability of society. In this unit, students will look at how change occurs in nature and society through linear and cyclical patterns. Students will become familiar with innovations that have changed how people have lived through timelines, graphs, and life cycles and will build knowledge of the contributions inventors have made in our nation and how these contributions have helped facilitate the movement of people, products, and ideas. By learning how changemakers influence our society, students will determine their role as a global citizen and understand how to “be the change.”
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In this unit, students will not only study the work and contributions of important scientists throughout history but they will also reflect upon their own curiosities as scientists. Through the scientific process, informational research, graphs, and data collection, students will begin to investigate their wonderings and interests. To wrap-up the unit, students will learn how to share their findings with their peers and others in our global community.
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In an era when much of our time is spent indoors, it is imperative for students to step outside to explore the world around them. In this unit, students will closely study plants, animals, the environment, and the impact they have on one another, such as through food chains. As living organisms in the environment, students will investigate how personal choices impact the natural world, such as through renewable and nonrenewable resources. Students can utilize graphs, data, and problem solving strategies to understand and compare how people live and how humans impact their environment. Through the use of maps, globes, and graphs, students will begin to understand how conservation affects living organisms around the world.
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As stated previously in unit 4, it is imperative for students to explore the world; this not only includes the space around and below them but also above in the sky. Students will be given ample opportunity to discover the patterns of how objects move around them on earth in addition to objects moving in the sky such as the Moon. Students can experiment with creating and understanding spaces utilizing shapes and measurement. Additionally, they can observe all aspects of a space including time, patterns in weather, and how the science and technology of a space has changed to meet basic needs.
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