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2nd grade · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 10

Communities Around the World

How people live in world communities

What your child practices

Communities in countries such as Japan, Brazil, Kenya, Egypt, India, Mexico and Peru: where people settle and why, how they adapt to and change their environment, languages, festivals, folktales and families.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 2.G2.1; 2.G4.1 · communities in different regions of the world, and how climate shapes life there

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Where people live shapes how they live.
  2. In rainy places, houses may be on stilts. Near the ocean, people eat fish.
  3. Changes like cutting forests can have effects no one meant.

Example: Why do people in rainy places build houses on stilts? Heavy rain can flood the ground. Stilts lift the house up. Answer: to stay above floodwater

Communities Around the World in Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 3 of 10 in 2nd grade Social Studies, after Globes & World Maps and before Culture & Traditions.

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

    The Andes Mountains are on which continent?

    • Europe
    • South America
    • Africa
    • Asia

  2. Question 2

    Which might stop people from settling in a place?

    • rich soil
    • a very dry desert
    • fresh water
    • a mild climate

  3. Question 3

    Children in many countries wear school uniforms. This shows schools can be…

    • closed everywhere
    • only for adults
    • alike and different around the world
    • all exactly the same

  4. Question 4

    Many people in Kenya speak Swahili and…

    • Greek
    • English
    • Portuguese
    • Japanese

  5. Question 5

    Because Japan is near the ocean, many people there eat…

    • only wheat
    • fish and seafood
    • mostly cactus
    • camel milk

  6. Question 6

    Holi, a spring festival of colors, is celebrated by many people in…

    • Norway
    • Argentina
    • Ireland
    • India

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