Indiana Social Studies IS.4.2
The Standard
Identify important organizations of economic growth in Indiana’s history.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students name organizations that shaped Indiana’s economy and explain what each did. They connect those organizations to jobs, products, or changes in a community.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can identify Studebaker in South Bend and Eli Lilly in Indianapolis. They can explain how each company’s work created jobs and supported other businesses.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name an industry, such as car manufacturing, instead of an organization, such as Studebaker. They may assume that a company’s growth helped every Indiana community equally.
How to Assess It
- Ask students to name one organization from Indiana’s history and complete this sentence: “It helped the economy by ___, as shown by ___.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students a blank Indiana map and cards for Studebaker, Eli Lilly, and Indiana Farm Bureau; have them place and annotate each card.
Ask students to write: How did Studebaker’s car production affect South Bend beyond the factory?
Play a matching game with organization names, locations, products or services, and effects on jobs.
Use a current Indianapolis map to locate Eli Lilly and three nearby businesses; sketch how workers might spend money there.
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Related Standards
- IS.4.1
Describe the economic developments in Indiana that helped transform the U.S. into a major industrial power.
- IS.4.7
Examine the rise and decline of industrial cities in Indiana.
- IS.4.6
Assess the economic impact of Indiana universities on the development of the state’s economy.
- IS.1.25
Summarize key economic and social developments and changes in post-WWII life in Indiana.
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