Indiana Social Studies GHW.6.1
The Standard
Distinguish between violent and non-violent revolution(s). Use a variety of text (writing, maps, timelines and/or other graphic representations) to document the spread of political ideas that resulted from those revolutions to other regions of the world.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students tell whether a revolution relied on armed force or mainly used methods such as marches and strikes. They use accounts, maps, and timelines to trace political ideas across borders. They need evidence for each link, not just similar events in two places.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain why the French Revolution was violent and the Velvet Revolution was largely nonviolent, using specific events. They can map an idea moving from each revolution to another place and cite dated evidence for each arrow.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call a revolution nonviolent because no war was declared, even if people used force. They may assume two similar protests are connected without checking dates or finding evidence that an idea traveled.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Give students a French street battle excerpt, a Prague march excerpt, and a Haitian excerpt that cites French rights. Ask them to classify the two revolutions, draw a France-to-Haiti arrow, and cite evidence for it.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Pin Paris, Port-au-Prince, Prague, and Tbilisi on a blank map; connect cities only when a provided excerpt identifies an idea that traveled.
Give students accounts of the French and Velvet revolutions; ask, "Which actions involved force, and which political ideas crossed borders?"
Play a source-sort: students match dated excerpts to violent or nonviolent methods, then place the excerpts on a timeline.
Bring in a recent protest news report; students mark the methods used and check whether it documents ideas crossing a border.
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