Indiana Social Studies IS.2.6
The Standard
Analyze the service of people from Indiana to national offices such as the presidency, vice-presidency, judiciary, and legislature including their ideas about the relationship between the three branches of government.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify Indiana leaders who served as president, vice president, Supreme Court justice, or senator. They use those leaders' actions and statements to explain how Congress, the president, and the courts share and limit power.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student matches Benjamin Harrison, Mike Pence, Sherman Minton, and Richard Lugar to their national offices. They explain how Minton's dissent in a case about presidential power differed from the Court's ruling.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think the vice president belongs to Congress because the vice president presides over the Senate. They may mistake a justice's dissent for the Court's ruling, or think senators appoint judges without a presidential nomination.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Match Harrison, Pence, Minton, and Lugar to their offices. Then explain how a senator's confirmation vote can limit a president's choice of judge, using the words nominate and confirm.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs name and office cards for Harrison, Pence, Minton, and Lugar; sort them on a three-branch chart and mark Pence's Senate duty.
Read a short excerpt of Minton's steel seizure dissent; write why he supported Truman's action while the Court's majority rejected it.
Play match-up with cards showing Harrison's veto, Lugar's confirmation vote, and Minton's dissent; students name each action's branch and power.
Display a recent Senate judicial confirmation roll call; students find Indiana senator Todd Young's vote and explain how the Senate checks presidential appointments.
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