Indiana Social Studies IS.1.33
The Standard
Analyze the impact of globalization on Hoosier culture and Indiana’s policies, international connections, and technological innovations.
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 trace how global trade, investment, and migration changed Indiana from 1980 to 2000. They use dated sources to connect those changes to local culture, state decisions, overseas ties, and new technology.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how Japanese investment in a Lafayette auto plant tied local jobs to overseas decisions. They can use dated evidence to explain a state trade effort, a cultural change, and a factory technology change.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think globalization meant only buying imports, not Indiana selling goods abroad or attracting investment. They may assume every worker benefited from a new factory. They may call any computer use a result of globalization without showing a link to overseas markets.
How to Assess It
- Give students four dated cards: a state trade announcement, a Lafayette auto plant report, an immigrant community article, and a Cummins engine-control report. Ask for two cause-and-effect claims about changes in Indiana, each backed by a different card.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Hand out a 1990s Lafayette auto plant clipping and a blank world map; students mark the Japan to Indiana investment link and any reported job effects.
Read a 1990s Indiana immigrant community article; ask, "What cultural changes does it document, and what evidence connects them to international movement?"
Write four cards: Indiana trade mission, Lafayette auto plant, immigrant festival, and Cummins engine controls; students sort them by policy, culture, ties, and technology.
Inspect a classroom object's country-of-origin label; compare its trade link with Japanese investment in Lafayette's auto plant.
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