Indiana Social Studies 4.H.9
The Standard
Identify and describe important events and movements that changed life in Indiana in the early twentieth century.
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 during the early 1900s, such as the 1913 flood, steel jobs in Gary, the Great Migration, and the campaign for women's voting rights. They explain how these changes affected homes, work, and voting.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how the 1913 flood disrupted travel and damaged homes. They can connect Gary's steel jobs to families moving there and explain how years of campaigning led to women gaining the vote in 1920.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think the Great Migration happened on one day rather than over many years. They may assume the 1913 flood affected every Indiana town equally. Some may think women gained voting rights without years of campaigning.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Name one event and one movement that changed Indiana in the early 1900s. For each, write one way it changed people's lives.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards labeled 1913 flood, Gary steel jobs, Great Migration, and women's suffrage; have them build a floor timeline.
Show a photo of Indiana flood damage from 1913 and ask: How might this have changed a family's trip to work or school?
Play a matching game with cause and effect cards, such as Gary steel jobs and families moving to Gary.
Check a local flood warning map, then compare today's alerts with a newspaper report about the 1913 flood.
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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.
- 4.H.7
Give examples of Indiana's increasing agricultural, industrial, political, and business development in the nineteenth century.
- IS.1.17
Identify the social, political, economic, and cultural movements of the 1920s and analyze how these movements reflected and shaped Indiana society.
- 4.H.11
Identify and describe important events and movements that changed life in Indiana from the mid-twentieth century to the present.
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