Indiana Social Studies IS.1.35
The Standard
Locate and analyze primary sources and secondary sources related to an event or issue of the past. Discover possible limitations in various kinds of historical evidence and differing secondary opinions.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies · Historical Thinking
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students find original records and later accounts of a past event. They check who made each source, when it was made, what it claims, and what it cannot tell them.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can find a firsthand record and a later history of the same event. They can explain a limit of each source and show where two historians disagree.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call an old-looking article a primary source even if it was written decades later. They may treat one witness account as the whole story or assume that one historian must be wrong when two disagree.
How to Assess It
- Give students a 1911 factory inspection excerpt and two short historian accounts of the Triangle fire. Ask them to label the source types, identify one disagreement, and name one thing the inspection record cannot show.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Sort a 1911 inspection record, a survivor account, and two later Triangle fire histories; mark what each source cannot show.
Ask: Why might two historians describe the Triangle fire differently? Use one detail from each account in your answer.
Run a source hunt: find one Triangle fire photo in the Library of Congress catalog and one later account in a textbook.
Compare a local historical marker with an item from the library archive; identify one detail the marker leaves out.
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