Second graders learn how their home fits into bigger and bigger places — from their home to their town, state, country, and finally the whole world — building an understanding of where they belong on the map.
Students will be able to…
You live in a home — but your home is in a town, your town is in a state, and it keeps going all the way up to the whole world! How do all the places where you live fit together?
Project this and have children put the places in order from the smallest (home) to the biggest (the whole world)!
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Your home is in a town, in a state, in a country — how do they fit together?
Children investigate.
Children explain.
Children share.
Children conclude.
Aligned to the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (Grade 2 / Neighborhoods).
Explain how places relate to one another from small to large.
Use maps to show where they live.
Describe how they belong to groups and places.
Take informed action in the community.
Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.
Have children practice saying where they live from smallest to biggest — home, town, state, country, world. A printable where-we-live sheet is in the Social Studies library.
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A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.
A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.