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All 36 weeks of 2nd grade history, planned and ready, with the exact topic for every week below. Start with Week 1 free, no card needed.
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History is taught from primary sources: students read real documents, letters, and speeches, then analyze who wrote them and why.
Topics and standards come straight from the live course. Standards codes are listed for reference; Life Academy is built to help meet homeschool requirements in all 50 states.
| Week | Topic | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | U.S. map regions: Northeast, South, Midwest, West | |
| 2 | Map scale and a compass rose — tools, not decoration | |
| 3 | Native nations of our region: name, place, one true fact | |
| 4 | Why people settle near water — geography as a cause | |
| 5 | Colonial life: work, food, and distance (not a theme park) | |
| 6 | Thirteen colonies on the Atlantic — a map fact | |
| 7 | Taxes and representation: why colonists argued with Britain | |
| 8 | Lexington 1775, Declaration 1776, Yorktown 1781 — order | |
| 9 | Patriots and Loyalists — Americans disagreed |
| Week | Topic | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | The Constitution (1787) and why a country needs written rules | |
| 11 | Bill of Rights: speech, religion, a fair trial — in kid words that stay true | |
| 12 | Washington's precedents: two terms, Mr. President, peaceful transfer | |
| 13 | Lewis and Clark (1804–1806) — a journey with maps and journals | |
| 14 | Westward movement: settlers and Native nations both real | |
| 15 | The Civil War (1861–1865): Union, Confederacy, slavery, and the 13th Amendment | |
| 16 | Immigrants: people who moved here — reasons you can name | |
| 17 | Inventors with dates: Whitney, Morse, Edison — one fact each | |
| 18 | Midyear: map regions + 1776/1787/1861 battery |
| Week | Topic | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | State symbols and why a state has a constitution too | |
| 20 | Local government: mayor, council, county — who fixes a road | |
| 21 | Goods, services, producers, consumers | |
| 22 | Then vs now: farms, factories, and stores | |
| 23 | A biography: Sacagawea, Douglass, or Barton — two checkable facts | |
| 24 | Primary vs secondary: a letter vs a textbook page | |
| 25 | Monuments remember; they are not the whole story | |
| 26 | Our state's path to statehood (year if known) | |
| 27 | Rivers of the U.S.: Mississippi as a highway of trade |
| Week | Topic | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 28 | The National Anthem's first line and the 1814 story (Fort McHenry) | |
| 29 | Citizenship duties: laws, truth, and taking turns in public | |
| 30 | Current event: one fact from news, one question still open | |
| 31 | Compare two regions: climate, work, and settlement | |
| 32 | Timeline of the year: colonies → Revolution → Constitution → Civil War | |
| 33 | Oral history: interview an older person (two facts, one date) | |
| 34 | History fair mini: one person, one map, one source | |
| 35 | Review: geography causes + civic rule books | |
| 36 | Grade 2 history portfolio: region map + three dated events |
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Week 1 is free with no card needed: open the Week 1 history lesson. Weeks 2–36 unlock with a Student plan ($35/month) or a Family plan for up to 4 students ($69/month).
Plan on about 15–25 minutes a day for history. There is one lesson per week of the school year, broken into short daily steps.
No. Life Academy is not accredited. It's built to help meet homeschool requirements in all 50 states, and parents are the school of record. Why that's usually fine.
Yes. Every lesson prints as a worksheet with a separate parent answer key.
Life Academy is a parent-directed online K–12 curriculum, built to help meet homeschool requirements in all 50 states. It is not accredited, and parents issue the homeschool transcript. Nothing here is legal advice. Check your state's law at HSLDA. Questions? Email david.dukes77102@gmail.com.