Indiana Social Studies GHW.6.4
The Standard
Compare and contrast the impact of the Industrial Revolution on developed countries with the economic processes acting upon less developed and developing countries in the contemporary world.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare how factories changed jobs, cities, and wealth in countries that industrialized early with changes in lower-income countries today. They explain how global trade and investment shape those changes now.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name a shared effect, such as workers moving to cities, and support it with examples from both periods. They can explain a difference, such as why a factory making goods for foreign brands may keep less profit locally.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume every country follows Britain's path from the 1800s. They may also assume that more factories always mean higher wages for workers, or that lower-income countries have no industry.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short account of a British textile mill in 1850 and a garment factory in Bangladesh today. Ask them to write one shared effect and one difference, using a detail from each account.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs source cards about British mills and Bangladeshi garment factories; have them place each card on a shared or different effects chart.
Ask students to write: Who earned money from British textiles in 1850, and who earns money from a shirt made in Bangladesh today?
Run a card sort with effects such as city growth, pollution, and export sales; students match each to one or both periods.
Have students check a shirt label, locate its manufacturing country on a map, and trace its likely route to a local store.
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