Indiana Social Studies 4.H.11
The Standard
Identify and describe important events and movements that changed life in Indiana from the mid-twentieth century to the present.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify changes in Indiana since the 1950s, such as civil rights campaigns, interstate construction, and steel industry job losses. They explain where a change happened and how it affected people's lives.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can place civil rights campaigns and steel job losses on a simple timeline and locate Indianapolis and Gary on a map. They can name a group affected by each change and describe what changed for that group.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think national civil rights laws ended discrimination everywhere at once, missing the work people did in Indiana. They may assume new highways helped everyone, overlooking homes and businesses displaced by construction.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Name one change in Indiana since 1950. Write where it happened and how life changed for one group of people.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
On a blank Indiana map, pairs place cards for an Indianapolis civil rights march and Gary steel job losses, then add one effect to each.
Ask, “How could a new interstate help a traveling family but hurt a family whose home stood in its path?”
Play a matching game with cards naming Indiana civil rights campaigns, interstate construction, and Gary steel layoffs, plus cards naming their effects.
Trace Indianapolis to Gary on a current road map, then explain how interstate construction changed travel and roadside businesses.
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Related Standards
- IS.1.9
Explain key ideas, movements, and inventions and summarize their impact on rural and urban communities throughout Indiana.
- IS.1.17
Identify the social, political, economic, and cultural movements of the 1920s and analyze how these movements reflected and shaped Indiana society.
- IS.1.25
Summarize key economic and social developments and changes in post-WWII life in Indiana.
- 4.H.9
Identify and describe important events and movements that changed life in Indiana in the early twentieth century.
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