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2nd grade · Social Studies · Unit 4 of 10

Culture & Traditions

Ways of life and how ideas spread

What your child practices

What culture is, cultural universals such as food, shelter and language, traditions, diversity, and how foods, games and ideas spread between communities.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 2.SP2.1; 2.H1.2 · comparing cultures and traditions around the world

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Culture is a group's way of life: food, shelter, language and traditions.
  2. Every culture has some kind of shelter.
  3. Learning songs and stories from elders keeps traditions alive.

Example: Learning a song from your grandparents keeps a ___ alive. The song is passed down over time. That is a tradition. Answer: tradition

Culture & Traditions in Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 4 of 10 in 2nd grade Social Studies, after Communities Around the World and before Trade Around the World.

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 helps a class make a fair decision together?

    • the loudest person decides
    • listen to everyone, then vote
    • no one talks

  2. Question 2

    Which is a cultural universal?

    • rockets
    • skateboards
    • food

  3. Question 3

    Diversity means…

    • a type of food
    • many different kinds of people
    • everyone is the same

  4. Question 4

    Soccer is played in countries all over the world. This shows that ideas…

    • are against the law
    • never change
    • stay in one place
    • spread between cultures

  5. Question 5

    Cultural universals are things that…

    • only one culture has
    • every culture has
    • nobody has

  6. Question 6

    Learning a song from your grandparents keeps a ___ alive.

    • tradition
    • law
    • tax

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