Indiana Social Studies GHW.6.3
The Standard
Map the spread of innovative art forms and scientific thought from their origins to other world regions. Analyze how the spread of these ideas influenced developments in art and science for different places and 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 map where an art technique and a scientific approach began and where each spread. They explain how people in the new places used those ideas.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can trace linear perspective from Florence to Nuremberg and Koch's bacteriology from Berlin to Tokyo. They can explain how Dürer used perspective in prints and how Kitasato established an infectious disease institute in Japan.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume ideas reached every place at once. They may credit Dürer with inventing perspective or think Kitasato only repeated Koch's experiments.
How to Assess It
- On a blank map, plot perspective's path from Florence to Nuremberg and bacteriology's path from Berlin to Tokyo. Name one result at each destination.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a blank map and four city labels: Florence, Nuremberg, Berlin, and Tokyo; have them draw two routes and label each destination.
Ask students to write: How did Italian perspective affect Dürer's prints, and what did Kitasato build after studying Koch's work?
Play route match with city and result cards: students pair Florence with Dürer's prints and Berlin with Kitasato's Tokyo institute.
Use a school handwashing sign to discuss how research on bacteria in Germany connects to a health practice used in other places.
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