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2nd grade · Social Studies · Unit 6 of 10

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.

Alaska content standards learning standard: SS.2.1.6.1; SS.2.2.6.1 · leaders and their jobs, and choosing leaders by voting

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 Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 6 of 10 in 2nd grade Social Studies, after Working Together Fairly and before Reading Maps.

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: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

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

    Who is a member of a community?

    • only grown-ups
    • everyone who lives there
    • only people born there

  2. Question 2

    A mediator helps people…

    • build a house
    • solve a disagreement calmly
    • win a race

  3. Question 3

    Maya writes to the city asking for a crosswalk near school. She is…

    • voting for President
    • breaking a rule
    • taking action as a citizen

  4. Question 4

    Countries trade so they can…

    • get goods they don't make
    • stop working
    • have fewer goods
    • lose money

  5. Question 5

    People who become citizens take a citizenship test and an…

    • bike test
    • oath
    • ocean trip

  6. Question 6

    People who move to the United States from another country can…

    • not go to school
    • become citizens
    • never be citizens

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