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Overarching Standard:
HSS-2.1 Students differentiate between things that happened long ago and things that happened yesterday.

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Place important events in their lives in the order in which they occurred (e.g., on a time line or storyboard).

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Students demonstrate map skills by describing the absolute and relative locations of people, places, and environments.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-2.2 Students demonstrate map skills by describing the absolute and relative locations of people, places, and environments.

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Locate on a simple letter-number grid system the specific locations and geographic features in their neighborhood or community (e.g., map of the classroom, the school).

Overarching Standard:
HSS-2.2 Students demonstrate map skills by describing the absolute and relative locations of people, places, and environments.

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Label from memory a simple map of the North American continent, including the countries, oceans, Great Lakes, major rivers, and mountain ranges. Identify the essential map elements: title, legend, directional indicator, scale, and date.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-2.2 Students demonstrate map skills by describing the absolute and relative locations of people, places, and environments.

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Locate on a map where their ancestors live(d), telling when the family moved to the local community and how and why they made the trip.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-2.2 Students demonstrate map skills by describing the absolute and relative locations of people, places, and environments.

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Compare and contrast basic land use in urban, suburban, and rural environments in California.

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Students explain governmental institutions and practices in the United States and other countries.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-2.3 Students explain governmental institutions and practices in the United States and other countries.

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Explain how the United States and other countries make laws, carry out laws, determine whether laws have been violated, and punish wrongdoers.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-2.3 Students explain governmental institutions and practices in the United States and other countries.

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Describe the ways in which groups and nations interact with one another to try to resolve problems in such areas as trade, cultural contacts, treaties, diplomacy, and military force.

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Students understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills.