Indiana Social Studies 6.H.12

Social Studies6th GradeHistory

The Standard

Discuss the benefits and challenges related to the development of a highly technological society.

2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students explain how inventions changed work and daily life over time. They identify benefits, problems, and people who did not have equal access.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can explain how electric power let factories run after dark but also increased demand for coal. They can explain why a city household might get electricity before a rural household.
Common Misconceptions: Students may assume every home got electricity as soon as cities did. They may think electric lights made power without fuel, or that faster factory production meant better conditions for every worker.
How to Assess It: Ask: “Electric lights let factories run after dark, but many power plants burned coal. Name one benefit, one problem, and a person affected by each.”

Lesson moves

Give pairs picture cards of an electric streetlamp, coal plant, factory, and farmhouse without wiring, then have them sort benefits and problems.
Ask students to write: “Would a factory worker in 1900 welcome electric lighting at work? Give one reason for and one against.”
Play a matching game with invention cards and consequence cards, such as telephone and faster news, or coal plant and smoke.
Have students list tasks they cannot do during a power outage, then compare their list with life in a farmhouse without electricity.

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