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2nd grade · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 14

Climate & Ways of Life

Weather, land and how people live

What your child practices

How people dress, build, farm and work to suit their weather and land, and reading photos and maps for clues about climate.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: 2.5b · how land, water and climate affect where people settle and how they live

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Climate is the usual weather in a place.
  2. In hot places, people wear light clothes and drink more water.
  3. In snowy places, people plow roads, wear warm clothes and skate or ski.

Example: In a hot, sunny place, people often wear… Heavy clothes trap heat. Light clothes help you stay cool. Answer: light clothes

Climate & Ways of Life in New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 2 of 14 in 2nd grade Social Studies, after Communities Compared and before Talking and Deciding Together.

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: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

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 of these is a physical feature?

    • a store
    • a mountain
    • a school

  2. Question 2

    Which is a human-made feature?

    • a river
    • a bridge
    • a mountain

  3. Question 3

    People in a rainy place often carry…

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    • snowshoes
    • umbrellas
    • sand buckets

  4. Question 4

    In a hot, dry place, people may wear loose clothes and a hat to…

    • stay cool and shaded
    • float
    • stay in the snow

  5. Question 5

    A place with lots of rain and warmth, like a rainforest, has…

    • only ice
    • many plants and trees
    • no plants at all

  6. Question 6

    Where might people wear thick coats most of the year?

    • near the equator
    • near the poles
    • in a rainforest

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