Second Grade · History · week 4

Where my people come from

Identify a place your family has roots in and locate it on a map or globe.

Every family comes from somewhere. Some families have lived in the same town for a long time. Other families moved from a different state or a different country, recently or a long time ago.

Moving from one country to live in another is called immigrating. Many families in the United States have a story about an ancestor who immigrated from somewhere else -- and some Native American families have been on this land for thousands of years, long before anyone else arrived.

📋 For the teacher
Teach it (10–15 min):
  • Ask a relative where your family lived before settling where you are now -- go back as many generations as you can.
  • Find that place together on a map, atlas, or globe, and talk about how far it is from home.
  • If your family has always lived in this area, talk about your town's own long history instead -- that is a real story too.
  • Keep the tone curious and factual: moving to a new place, near or far, is a normal and common part of many family stories.
Talk about it:
  • Where did your family live before here, as far back as we know?
  • How far away is that place from where we live now?
  • Why do you think people choose to move to a new place?

Mastery looks like: They can name a place connected to their family history and point to it on a map or globe.

Common stumbles: Confusing a state with a country, or assuming every family's story is the same.

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