Indiana Social Studies S.1.3
The Standard
Illustrate the relationship of sociology to the other social science disciplines, including history, economics, psychology, and political science.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students look at one issue through several lenses. They identify questions about group patterns, past events, prices, individual choices, and government decisions, then explain how the answers might connect.
What Mastery Looks Like
- For a bus fare increase, a student can ask distinct questions about neighborhood access, past routes, demand, riders' decisions, and city policy. They can explain how those answers might help account for a pattern across groups.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students label any question about people as sociology, even one about a single person's thoughts. Others treat prices, past decisions, and public policy as unrelated to patterns across groups.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A city raises bus fares. Write one question each for a sociologist, historian, economist, psychologist, and political scientist, then underline the question about patterns across groups.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Sort five printed questions about bus fares into labeled discipline piles, then move any card that could fit two piles and explain why.
Write two questions about a school dress code, one about peer groups and one about how school rules are made.
Play five rounds of question match: read a question about housing costs, and have students hold up a discipline card.
Show a city bus fare notice; students write how the change might affect riders by income and identify who sets the fare.
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