Common Planner
K–12 Standards

Grade 4

Other Indiana Social Studies Content Connectors sets

History

  • 1

    Identify one or more major early cultures that lived in the region of Indiana before the arrival of the Europeans and before Indiana became a state. (E)4.H.1a

  • 2

    Identify one or more historic Native American groups that lived in Indiana at the time of early European exploration and describe a way each group adapted to or interacted with the physical environment. (E)4.H.2a

  • 3

    Identify the importance of the Revolutionary War and key events or people that influenced the development of Indiana as a state. (E) 4.H.3a

  • 4

    Identify one or more key documents in Indiana’s development from a United States territory to statehood. 4.H.4a

  • 5

    Identify the roles of one or more individuals, groups, and/or movements in the social conflicts leading to the Civil War. (E) 4.H.5a

  • 6

    Identify one or more impact of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency on Indiana, and identify one or more ways how Indiana citizens participated in the Civil War. (E)4.H.6a

  • 7

    Identify examples of Indiana’s increasing agricultural, industrial, political, and/or business development in the nineteenth century. 4.H.7a

  • 8

    List ways Indiana citizens participated in World War I and World War II. (E)4.H.8a

  • 9

    Identify important events and movements that changed life in Indiana in the early twentieth century. 4.H.9a

  • 10

    List ways Indiana was transformed as a result of immigration and developments in agriculture, industry, or transportation. 4.H.10a

  • 11

    Identify important events and/or movements that changed life in Indiana from the mid-twentieth century to the present. 4.H.11a

  • 12

    Use various resources to choose reasons for Indiana's modern growth (i.e., manufacturing, new technologies, and transportation).4.H.12a

  • 13

    Use a timeline to identify relationships among people, events, and movements in the history of Indiana.4.H.13a

  • 14

    Identify three key details from an event in Indiana history. 4.H.14a

  • 15

    Identify Indiana artists and writers and match their contributions to the state’s cultural landscape. 4.H.15a

Civics and Government

  • 1

    Identify the major purposes of Indiana's Constitution found in the Preamble. (E)4.C.1a

  • 2

    Identify individual rights, such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion, which people have under Article I of Indiana’s Constitution. (E) 4.C.2a

  • 3

    Match major responsibilities of the legislative (Article 4), executive (Article 5), and judicial branches (Article 7) of state government as written in the Indiana Constitution. (E)4.C.3a

  • 4

    Identify major state offices, their powers, and how they are chosen. 4.C.4a

  • 5

    Identify examples of how citizens can participate in their state government and identify the right and responsibility of voting.4.C.5a

  • 6

    Identify a public issue relating to Indiana’s past or present and choose a position on the issue. 4.C.6a

Geography

  • 1

    Identify the scale on the map and describe how it is used to estimate distances.4.G.1a

  • 2

    Locate Indiana on a map as one of the 50 United States and identify the state capital, a major city, and a major river. (E)4.G.2a

  • 3

    Identify physical regions of Indiana and major natural resources on a map. 4.G.3a

  • 4

    Identify one or more ways glaciers shaped Indiana’s landscape and environment. (E)4.G.4a

  • 5

    Identify Indiana’s landforms (lithosphere), water features (hydrosphere), and plants and animals (biosphere).4.G.5a

  • 6

    Identify one or more challenges in the physical landscape of Indiana to early settlers and modern day economic development.4.G.6a

  • 7

    Identify the importance of major transportation routes in Indiana and in the state’s location as a crossroad of America. (E) 4.G.7a

  • 8

    Identify how immigration patterns have impacted Indiana.4.G.8a

  • 9

    Identify a misconception and/or a misperception of Native Americans, Africans, early settlers, or other immigrant groups historically and currently. 4.G.9a

Economics

  • 1

    Give an example of goods and services produced in Indiana over different periods of time.4.E.1a

  • 2

    Define productivity; identify examples of how productivity has changed in Indiana during the past century. (E)4.E.2a

  • 3

    Identify how prices change as a result of changes in supply and demand for specific products. (E)4.E.3a

  • 4

    Identify a function of money and things that have been used as money in the past in Indiana and the United States.4.E.4a

  • 5

    Identify one or more entrepreneurs who have influenced Indiana or the local community.4.E.5a

  • 6

    Define profit, and describe how profit is an incentive for entrepreneurs.4.E.6a

  • 7

    Identify important goods and services provided by state and local governments. (E) 4.E.7a

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