Indiana Social Studies P.2.2
The Standard
Compare and contrast between the left and right hemispheres of the brain and identify how vision, motor, language, and other functions are regulated by each hemisphere.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students map each visual field and side of the body to the hemisphere that processes it or controls its movement. They compare each hemisphere's usual roles in language, spatial attention, and interpreting tone.
What Mastery Looks Like
- On a blank diagram, students connect the left visual field and left hand to the right hemisphere. They place speech mainly on the left and spatial attention mostly on the right, while recognizing that the hemispheres work together.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often think each eye sends information to only one hemisphere, rather than both eyes sending information to both sides by visual field. They may also think people are purely left-brained or right-brained.
How to Assess It
- Ask: A ball appears in a person's left visual field as they raise their right hand. Which hemisphere processes the ball, which controls the hand, and where is speech usually centered?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a blank brain diagram and colored pencils; have them trace visual fields and hand movements to the opposite hemispheres.
Ask students to write two sentences explaining why losing one visual field can affect what a person sees through both eyes.
Run a card sort with left visual field, right hand movement, speech production, and spatial attention; students match each to its usual hemisphere.
Give students two stroke symptom cards, speech difficulty and left-side weakness; ask which hemisphere is likely injured in each case.
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