Indiana Social Studies IS.1.39
The Standard
Research Indiana’s modern growth emphasizing manufacturing, new technologies, transportation and global connections.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies · Historical Thinking
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students research how factories, new technologies, transportation routes, and international ties changed Indiana’s economy. They use maps, job data, and company records to explain those changes with evidence.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how a Lafayette car plant connects to overseas investment and Indiana highways. They can cite sources for each link and distinguish evidence of growth from a company’s claims about itself.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may picture manufacturing as only older assembly lines and overlook robotics or medical devices. They may assume overseas investment always moves jobs out of Indiana. A shipping route alone does not prove that trade increased.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Give students an Indiana highway map and a brief article on Subaru’s Lafayette plant. Ask how the plant connects transportation and overseas investment, using one detail from each source.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Use an Indiana map and string to connect Subaru’s Lafayette plant, I-65, Burns Harbor port, and possible overseas markets.
Ask students to write: How might a new highway affect where an Indiana factory opens? Use a map and a job chart.
Give pairs source cards on factories, medical devices, highways, and trade; have them sort the cards and defend one source that fits two groups.
Check a classroom item’s country-of-origin label, then map a possible route from that country to an Indiana store.
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Related Standards
- 4.H.12
Research Indiana's modern growth, emphasizing manufacturing, new technologies, transportation, and global connections.
- IS.4.1
Describe the economic developments in Indiana that helped transform the U.S. into a major industrial power.
- IS.1.33
Analyze the impact of globalization on Hoosier culture and Indiana’s policies, international connections, and technological innovations.
- IS.4.2
Identify important organizations of economic growth in Indiana’s history.
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