Indiana Social Studies IS.4.12
The Standard
Identify and explain the significance of federal programs, policies, and legal rulings designed to improve the lives of Americans during the 1960s and the impact on Indiana residents.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify 1960s federal programs, laws, and court rulings that changed access to health care and public places. They explain who was affected and what changed for Indiana residents.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how Medicare helped pay an older Indiana resident’s hospital costs. They can explain how the Civil Rights Act barred discrimination at restaurants and how a Supreme Court ruling upheld that ban at hotels.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse Medicare with Medicaid and assume both cover only older adults. They may also think a federal court ruling applied only in the state where the case began.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, have students label Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, and Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States as a program, law, or ruling. For each, they write one effect on an Indiana resident.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Hand out short summary cards and Indiana resident cards; students pair each resident with Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, or Heart of Atlanta.
Ask students to write how Medicare could affect an Indiana retiree’s hospital bill and how the Civil Rights Act could affect a Black diner.
Play a matching game with Medicare, Medicaid, the Civil Rights Act, and Heart of Atlanta cards paired with specific resident scenarios.
Show a fictional 1967 Indiana retiree’s hospital bill; have students mark which charges Medicare could help pay.
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Examine the impact of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s in Indiana through the actions of leaders and groups that were active in the movement.
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- 4.H.9
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- IS.1.28
Analyze the significance of state programs, policies, and legal rulings designed to improve the lives of Hoosiers.
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