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2nd grade · Social Studies · Unit 8 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.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 2.C2.1; 2.C2.2 · leaders and their roles, and how everyone plays a part

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 Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 8 of 10 in 2nd grade Social Studies, after Work, Saving & Resources and before Continents & Oceans.

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: Arizona Department of Education

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

    Which is a way kids can help their community?

    • waste water
    • pick up litter at a park
    • break a swing

  2. Question 2

    Before you vote, it helps to…

    • close your eyes
    • let a stranger choose
    • learn about the choices

  3. Question 3

    Why do we vote?

    • so everyone gets a say
    • to skip school
    • so only one person decides

  4. Question 4

    Countries trade so they can…

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

  5. Question 5

    Ruby Bridges is a changemaker because, at age 6, she…

    • helped open a school to all children
    • flew a plane
    • invented the telephone

  6. Question 6

    Two friends disagree about a game. A good first step is to…

    • talk and listen to each other
    • shout louder
    • walk away forever

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