Indiana Social Studies WG.4.19
The Standard
Identify and report on the impact of international networks and organizations that connect countries and influence of places, countries, and regions.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies · Cooperation and Conflict
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify organizations and networks that link countries, such as the WHO and shipping routes. They report how those links affect a particular place, using a map or written source as evidence.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can trace a shipping route between two countries and explain a documented effect on a port city. They can also name an international organization, describe its work across borders, and support a claim about its impact.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call a shipping route an organization or assume an international organization controls its member countries. They may also claim that a network benefits every place in the same way.
How to Assess It
- Show a map of China to U.S. shipping routes and this note: 'Cargo delayed at Los Angeles arrives late at nearby stores.' Ask students to name the network, trace the route, and report one local effect.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a blank world map and a card reading 'Shanghai to Los Angeles by ship'; have them draw the route and label one port impact.
Read a UNICEF country report, then ask students to write how work across borders affected one community, citing a number from the report.
Make cards labeled WHO, WTO, container shipping, disease alerts, trade rules, and freight delays; have students match each network or organization to its action.
Give students a coffee bag labeled 'Product of Colombia'; map its route to a local store and predict how shipping delays could affect its price.
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