Second graders experience a broad introduction to social studies and build a base for future learning. Students expand their map skills by using features of maps, including scale, direction, and location, to read maps and draw conclusions. They put their map skills to use exploring the physical and human features of their community, state, country, continent, and world. Students increase their understanding of chronology and investigate the past using sources to learn more about themselves and their communities. They study people who influenced history as leaders, inventors, and trailblazers. Students discover cultures around the world and in their own communities. Students also learn the basic concepts and operations of the economy and are introduced to the basic principles of personal finance. Students describe the role of government and expand their understanding of how citizens contribute to their communities.

Continuing a survey of world history from prehistoric to modern times, K12 online lessons and assessmentscomplement the second volume of The Human Odyssey, a textbook series developed and published by K12. This course focuses on the story of the past, from the fifteenth century to 1914 and the beginning of World War I. The course is organized chronologically and, within broad eras, regionally. Lessons explore developments in religion, philosophy, the arts, and science and technology. The course introduces geography concepts and skills as they appear in the context of the historical narrative. This is the second semester of a two semester course.

Continuing a survey of world history from prehistoric to modern times, K12 online lessons and assessmentscomplement the second volume of The Human Odyssey, a textbook series developed and published by K12. This course focuses on the story of the past, from the fifteenth century to 1914 and the beginning of World War I. The course is organized chronologically and, within broad eras, regionally. Lessons explore developments in religion, philosophy, the arts, and science and technology. The course introduces geography concepts and skills as they appear in the context of the historical narrative. This is the first semester of a two semester course.

This 8th Grade history course takes students from the westward movement of the late 1800s to the present, covering topics in geography, civics, and economics, and exploring critical episodes in the story of America.

Second graders continue their investigation (spanning grades 1–4) into history from the Stone Age to the Space Age.