Indiana Social Studies 4.H.14
The Standard
Construct a brief narrative about an event in Indiana history using primary and secondary sources.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use a source made at the time of an Indiana event and a later account. They write a short story of what happened, putting events in order and using details from both sources.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can write a beginning, middle, and end about the 1913 Indiana flood. They include one detail visible in a flood photograph and one fact from a later history account, without making up details.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat a later account as an eyewitness report or assume a photograph shows the whole event. They may mix up the order of events or invent dialogue to make the story more exciting.
How to Assess It
- Give students a 1913 Indiana flood photograph and a short later history paragraph. Ask: "Write four sentences about what happened, using one detail from each source and putting events in order."
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a 1913 Indiana flood photograph and a short history account; have them place three event details on a paper timeline.
Ask: "What can the flood photograph tell us that the later account cannot, and what can the account tell us that the photograph cannot?"
Play source sort: teams match six flood details to the photograph or later account, then order the details to tell the story.
Write a four-sentence caption for a town library exhibit using a 1913 flood photo and a local history page.
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Related Standards
- 4.H.13
Create and interpret timelines that show relationships among people, events, and movements in the history of Indiana.
- 4.H.9
Identify and describe important events and movements that changed life in Indiana in the early twentieth century.
- 4.H.11
Identify and describe important events and movements that changed life in Indiana from the mid-twentieth century to the present.
- IS.1.9
Explain key ideas, movements, and inventions and summarize their impact on rural and urban communities throughout Indiana.
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