Indiana Social Studies IS.1.19
The Standard
Describe technological developments during the 1920s and explain their impact on rural and urban Indiana.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies · Prosperity, Depression, and World War II
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify changes such as cars, tractors, radios, and electric appliances. They explain how these changed work and daily life in Indiana cities and on farms, while noting who lacked access.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how cars helped some farmers reach markets and created factory jobs in South Bend. They can explain why electric appliances reached many city homes before farm homes that lacked power lines.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume every Indiana farm had electricity or a tractor by the late 1920s. They may think cars and radios were only for city residents, or that everyone could afford new technology.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, ask: Name two technologies from the 1920s. Explain one effect on an Indiana farm and one effect on an Indiana city household or worker.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards labeled car, tractor, radio, and electric washer; have them place each on farm, city, or both mats and write one effect.
Ask students to write: How might a 1925 farm family's evening differ from a South Bend family's if only the city home had electricity?
Play a card match game pairing tractors with faster plowing, cars with factory jobs, radios with farm news, and washers with less hand washing.
Have students compare phone news alerts with a 1920s battery radio, then explain how either could deliver news to a farm without power lines.
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