SOCIAL STUDIES GRADE TWO

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SOCIAL STUDIESGRADE TWO THE CONTINENTS
Identify reasons for using a map or globe
Using a Compass Rose
Directional Words
Maps and Globes
The Continents
Vocabulary continent Equator location compass
rose north, south, east, west immigration/immigra
nt North Pole South Pole
The Equator
Differences
Locating Places on a Map
Five Oceans
Seven continents
Location of Tolland, Connecticut, and the United
States in North America

• Essential Learning Expectations
• The world is made of seven continents
  surrounded by five oceans.
• There are multiple ways (e.g. your town, your
  state, your country, north ofor south of) to
• explain your location.
• The Equator is an imaginary line that divides
  the round Earth into two parts.
• Directional words show the relationship between
  locations.
• Globes and maps come in different forms and
  have different purposes.