Indiana Social Studies GHW.3.3
The Standard
Analyze the changes in population characteristics and physical and human environments that resulted from the migration of peoples within, between, and among world regions.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace moves within and across world regions. They use maps, population data, and images to explain changes in the places people leave and the places they enter. They look at who lives there, land and water use, and housing and services.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can compare an origin and destination before and after migration. They use evidence to explain a population shift, a land or water change, and a change in housing or services. They do not blame migration for every change they see.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often look only at the destination and forget the place people left. They may call new housing a change to the natural environment. They may also assume that migration caused every loss of green space.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A village loses 200 working-age adults to a city that expands onto farmland. Describe one population change in each place, one land change, and one change to the city's housing or services.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs two maps of a made-up city, before and after new arrivals; have them color lost farmland, new housing, and bus routes.
Ask: How could moves from Syria to Germany change school enrollment in both places? What evidence would you need?
Hand out cards saying 'fewer workers,' 'more classrooms,' 'less farmland,' and 'more water use'; students sort by origin or destination and type of change.
Compare county census age tables and dated Google Earth images; identify age, green space, and housing changes migration might help explain.
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