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2nd grade · Social Studies · Unit 7 of 12

People Who Made a Difference

Leaders, good citizens and inventors

What your child practices

The people the Texas standards name for Grade 2: Thurgood Marshall, Irma Rangel, Theodore Roosevelt, Paul Revere, Abigail Adams, the Women Airforce Service Pilots, the Navajo Code Talkers, Sojourner Truth, Amelia Earhart and George Washington Carver, and what good citizenship means.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 2.2(A); 2.10(A); 2.10(B); 2.10(C); 2.14 · historical figures who influenced the state and nation, good citizenship, and inventive individuals

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Good citizens show justice (being fair), truthfulness and courage.
  2. Sojourner Truth spoke out against slavery and for women's rights.
  3. Irma Rangel helped more Texas students go to college.

Example: Justice means… Justice is about how people are treated. It means everyone is treated fairly. Answer: being fair

People Who Made a Difference in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 7 of 12 in 2nd grade Social Studies, after Symbols, Songs & Landmarks and before Texas, Our Land.

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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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

    Abigail Adams wrote letters asking leaders to…

    • remember the ladies
    • close the schools
    • build more roads
    • plant more trees

  2. Question 2

    The teddy bear is named for…

    • Theodore Roosevelt
    • Thurgood Marshall
    • Paul Revere
    • Sam Houston

  3. Question 3

    Justice means…

    • being rich
    • being loud
    • being fair
    • being fast

  4. Question 4

    The WASPs were women pilots who, in World War II, flew…

    • kites
    • spaceships
    • hot air balloons
    • military planes in the United States

  5. Question 5

    Sojourner Truth escaped slavery and spoke out for…

    • faster horses
    • more taxes
    • the end of slavery and women's rights
    • longer school days

  6. Question 6

    Amelia Earhart and George Washington Carver both showed…

    • inventiveness and courage to try new things
    • that rules don't matter
    • that trying is pointless
    • that only adults matter

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