At High Peaks Elementary, grades K-5, we utilize the Core Knowledge Sequence This flexible program, edited by Core Knowledge founder E.D. Hirsch, Jr., follows a specific Core Knowledge Sequence to teach key history, geography, and science topics. With this program, our students build a unified, solid base of academic knowledge – the key to overall literacy and future success. Core Knowledge presents the concepts of world and American history, and geography, to build important social studies and science concepts.
Topics covered by second grade include:
- Water Cycle/Seasons
- Insects
- U.S. Constitution
- War of 1812/Civil War
- Westward Expansion
- Human Body (digestive system)
- Ancient China, India, and Greece
- Simple Machines/Force & Motion
- Civil Rights
- Magnetism
