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    Indiana: Second Grade and your state's standards

    Second Grade is built on the national frameworks that most state standards are based on or closely resemble: the Common Core State Standards for math and English language arts, the national K-12 science framework (the Next Generation Science Standards*), and the C3 Framework for social studies. Every lesson lists the standard it teaches.

    Indiana's standards by subject

    Math

    Indiana Academic Standards for Mathematics (2023)

    Based on the Common Core, with the state's own changesAdopted 2023

    Indiana writes its own standards, but Indiana's crosswalk maps every Common Core Grade 2 standard to an Indiana one; Indiana adds some measurement and time topics.

    Official standards (opens in a new tab)

    English Language Arts

    Indiana Academic Standards for English/Language Arts (2023)

    Based on the Common Core, with the state's own changesAdopted 2023

    Indiana's crosswalk shows close alignment with Common Core, plus a few added Grade 2 items such as handwriting and media awareness.

    Official standards (opens in a new tab)

    Science

    Indiana Academic Standards for Science (2023)

    Based on the national science framework, with the state's own changesAdopted 2023

    Indiana says its science standards are based on A Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards*.

    Official standards (opens in a new tab)

    Social Studies

    Indiana Academic Standards for Social Studies

    The state's own standards

    Grade 2 (2023 standards) studies the local community: when it was founded, its celebrations and symbols, local government, maps of Indiana and the United States, and local goods and services. Indiana has posted 2026 revised standards; the date they take effect was not confirmed.

    Official standards (opens in a new tab)

    Grade 2 topics your state adds or places differently

    • Grade 2 math adds measuring capacity with cups and pints (2.M.3).

      Add at home

      Add a 15-minute kitchen activity: fill a pint container with cups of water and count how many cups fill it, then have your child guess and check which household containers hold more or less than a pint.

    • Grade 2 math adds how units of time relate (seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months) and elapsed time on the hour or half hour (2.M.4, 2.M.5).

      Partly covered

      Week 23 teaches 60 minutes in an hour and elapsed time. Add a 10-minute calendar and timer talk: count 60 seconds together, then use a calendar to count days in a week, weeks in a month and months in a year.

    • Grade 2 ELA adds recognizing that media can inform, entertain and persuade (2.CC.7).

      Partly covered

      Weeks 10 and 28 teach that authors write to inform, entertain or persuade. Add 10 minutes to sort media the same way: a weather report, a cartoon and a toy ad, and ask which purpose each has.

    • Grade 2 social studies (2023) names Indiana's Benjamin Harrison in the history of the Pledge of Allegiance (2.C.5).

      Partly covered

      Week 18 teaches the Pledge of Allegiance phrase by phrase. Add 10 minutes that week to look up together how President Benjamin Harrison, from Indiana, is part of the pledge's history.

    Sources

    Verified: 2026-09-30. Standards change; always check your state's official page.