Indiana Social Studies IS.3.6
The Standard
Identify immigration and migration patterns and describe their impact on the developments of agriculture, industry, mining, and transportation in Indiana.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace where people came from and where they settled in Indiana. They explain how newcomers changed farming, factory work, coal mining, and transportation.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can distinguish immigration from movement within the United States. They can use examples, such as Black Southerners working in Gary steel mills or European immigrants working in coal mines, to explain changes in Indiana.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call the movement of Black families from the South to Indiana immigration, though it was movement within the United States. They may assume newcomers only worked in factories and miss their roles on farms, in mines, and on railroads.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, ask: How was the movement of Black Southerners to Gary different from the arrival of European immigrants in Indiana? Name one job each group did and explain its effect.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a blank Indiana map and four worker cards; have them place farmers, steelworkers, miners, and railroad workers in likely regions.
Ask students to write three sentences explaining how a move to Gary could change both a family's work and the city's industry.
Play a card sort with origin, destination, and job cards; students match each set and label it immigration or migration.
Compare a local railroad map with a county farming map; ask students how rail access might affect where newcomers found work.
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