Indiana Social Studies S.7.2
The Standard
Identify basic social institutions and explain their impact on individuals, groups, and organizations within society and how they transmit the values of society.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify institutions such as families, schools, government, and workplaces. They explain how rules and routines pass along values and shape what people, groups, and organizations do.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a school attendance rule, a student identifies responsibility as a value it teaches. They explain a likely effect on a student, a friend group, and a school club.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think an institution is just a building, rather than a system of roles and rules. They may assume every family teaches the same values or that a rule affects only the person who breaks it.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Choose school or government. Name one value it passes on, a rule or routine that passes it on, and an effect on a person, group, and organization.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Hand pairs a bell schedule, attendance policy, and report card; have them label the value each teaches and who each affects.
Ask students to write: How does a school dress code teach a value, and why might students and families disagree about that value?
Run a card match: students pair family, school, government, and workplaces with routines, values taught, and effects on people or groups.
Show a photo of a local library's posted rules; students name the values they teach and how patrons and staff respond.
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