Indiana Social Studies 2.C.3
The Standard
Describe how people of different ages, cultural backgrounds, and traditions contribute to the community and how all citizens can respect these differences.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students describe how children and adults help their community. They explain how people with different backgrounds and traditions contribute. They show respect by listening and asking polite questions.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name what a teen volunteer, an older gardener, and a neighbor sharing a family tradition each contribute. They can ask about an unfamiliar tradition without assuming everyone from that background shares it.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think only adults can help a community. Others assume that every family from the same place celebrates the same holidays. They may call an unfamiliar custom strange instead of asking about it.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A child picks up litter, an older neighbor tends a garden, and a neighbor from Guatemala teaches a game played at family gatherings. Name how each helps and write one polite question for the game leader.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Put four profile cards on a paper map: teen pantry helper, older gardener, neighbor from Guatemala teaching a game, and Diwali storyteller.
Ask, 'What could you say when a neighbor shares a holiday story you have never heard before?' Have students write one response.
Read reply cards aloud; partners sort them into respectful and disrespectful replies, then rewrite 'That's weird' as a polite question.
Bring a flyer for a local library event; students identify someone who helps run it and write a polite question for a guest.
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Related Standards
- S.2.10
Describe traditions, roles, and expectations necessary for a community to continue.
- S.2.4
Identify American cultural values; differentiate between a heterogeneous society and homogenous society.
- 5.C.6
Describe group and individual actions that illustrate civic virtues, such as civility, cooperation, respect, and responsible participation.
- K.H.2
Recognize and explain the ways people, heritage, and events are remembered and celebrated in families, schools, and communities.
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