Content Connections: Second Grade

Interrelationships

Interrelationships are the logical or natural association between two or more things. Second graders work to understand how individual parts contribute to a whole and how the whole is made of interrelated parts. Interrelationships expand upon the concepts of life connections, patterns and interactions, and sorting by extending these concepts to the idea that individual objects possess reciprocal relationships that influence and interact with one another dynamically.

Strategic Tool Use

Strategic tool use is the ability to distinguish which instruments or tools are the best for a given situation in order to maximize productivity and success. Mastering strategic tool use builds the foundation for the concepts of claims and evidence and reasoned argument found at later grades. Strategic tool use is a concept that is used throughout an individual’s life in evaluating information, making decisions, and generating arguments for effectiveness and efficiency.

Communication

Communication is the ability to express and understand ideas, information, opinions, feelings, questions, and findings through various media such as music, visual art, and written and oral language. This fundamental concept allows for an understanding of the past and a creation of the future. The second grade concept of communication expands on the first grade concept of personal communication by synthesizing various thoughts and ideas, originating from multiple individuals or sources.

Progression

Progression is the understanding of the relationship and sequence of objects, quantities, and events. Progression builds on the prior concepts of order and patterns and interactions to create complex interrelationships. Progressions provide the foundation for the concept of time and duration and change and transformation through the examination of initial understandings of cause and effect.