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Geography · Grade 2

Compare Places with Evidence

How are places alike and different, and how do we know? Learners describe urban, suburban and rural communities from clues, read tables and bar charts to compare places (including real average temperatures and precipitation for Chicago, Miami and Denver), highlight the sentences in a text that are evidence, and make claims that are backed by evidence instead of opinions.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 55 minutes
  • Compare places check: 8 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, pin a map, match pairs, type a number and put in order
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What learners will discover

  • Describe urban, suburban and rural communities and sort clues about each.
  • Read tables and bar charts to compare two or more places.
  • Find the sentences in a text that are evidence for a claim about a place.
  • Make a claim comparing places and support it with evidence.

Lessons

  1. City, suburb and countryside 7 steps4 practiceabout 13 min
  2. Compare with data 8 steps3 practiceabout 15 min
  3. Find the evidence 7 steps4 practiceabout 13 min
  4. Make a claim and back it up 6 steps3 practiceabout 14 min
  5. Compare places check 8 questions at the end

Keep exploring

Games to practice with

  • Globe ExplorerSpin a real 3D globe, flip to the flat map, and find continents, oceans and countries.
  • Pin the PlanetDrag the pin onto wonders, cities and exact latitude and longitude points.
  • Mapmaker QuestFollow directions to make a map, then read its legend, compass rose and scale.

More 2nd grade geography

Guide for grown-ups