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2nd grade · Social Studies · Unit 1 of 15

Citizens & Leaders

Voting, leaders and solving problems

What your child practices

Who can vote, how communities choose leaders, and how groups and nations work out problems, from classmates to countries.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 2.1; 2.3 · citizens' rights and responsibilities, leaders, and how voting works

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Leaders: a mayor runs a city, a principal leads a school.
  2. People choose many leaders by voting.
  3. Changemakers, like Cesar Chavez, work to make things fairer.

Example: Who leads a public school? A school has one main leader. That leader is the principal. Answer: the principal

Citizens & Leaders in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 1 of 15 in 2nd grade Social Studies, before Work, Saving & Resources.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Two countries disagree about fishing. A peaceful way to solve it is to…

    • ignore it forever
    • talk and make an agreement
    • stop eating
    • build a wall in the ocean

  2. Question 2

    Cesar Chavez worked for…

    • bigger zoos
    • fair treatment of farm workers
    • faster trains

  3. Question 3

    Your friend sees a problem differently than you. That is their…

    • address
    • point of view
    • birthday

  4. Question 4

    A rule is fair when it…

    • treats everyone the same way
    • changes every minute
    • helps only one person

  5. Question 5

    A school board…

    • cooks lunch
    • drives the school buses
    • makes decisions for a school district

  6. Question 6

    Which is a fair way to pick a name for the class fish?

    • nobody chooses
    • everyone votes
    • one student decides alone

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