Indiana Social Studies IS.1.32
The Standard
Discuss and explain the significance of the rise of Indiana political leaders from 1980 to present.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies · Contemporary Indiana: 1980 to 2000
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students track the state and national roles Indiana leaders held from 1980 onward. They explain how a leader gained a wider platform and what that leader did with it.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can place Evan Bayh’s move from governor to senator and Dan Quayle’s move from senator to vice president on a timeline. They can use a dated source to explain how Richard Lugar’s work with Sam Nunn addressed nuclear risks.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may mix up Evan Bayh with his father, Birch Bayh. They may confuse a governor’s state powers with a senator’s federal job. Some treat winning an election as proof that a leader changed policy.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Name one Indiana leader who held national office after 1980. Give the office, one action the leader took, and why it mattered.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs dated office cards for Lugar, Quayle, Bayh, and Pence; have them build a paper timeline labeled state or national.
Read a short excerpt about the Nunn-Lugar program, then ask: What risk did it address, and why did Lugar’s position matter?
Play an office-match game: students pair governor, senator, and vice president cards with Bayh, Lugar, Quayle, or Pence and check the dates.
Open an Indiana senator’s official website; students find a committee assignment and write one way its work could affect Indiana residents.
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