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Lesson One

Coming to Indiana

Lesson Description
This lesson examines one of Indiana’s greatest resources, its people,
and helps students to understand that Indiana has been destination for new
residents throughout its history. One of the factors causing people to move to Indiana
has been the availability of a variety of opportunities.

Objectives

As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:

1. Identify the reasons that people have come to Indiana from other states and

other countries at different times in our history.

2. Explore the obstacles and problems that people may face in deciding to move to

Indiana.

3. Consider the importance of human migration in history as a way of spreading

ideas, skills, and technologies.

4. Connect the migration experiences of people in Indiana=s past and present to

their own lives.
Social Studies Academic Standards This Lesson Satisfies1

4.1.11 Describe how changes in politics, immigration, migration, early

transportation, and the economy influenced the early growth of the new state of

Indiana.

4.1.15 Explain how immigration, migration, and urbanization led to the

development of major cities.

4.1.20 Describe how changes in immigration, migration, transportation, and the

economy influenced the continued development of Indiana.

4.1.23 Develop and interpret time lines depicting people, events, and movements

in the history of Indiana.

4.5.3 Identify the different types of social groups to which people belong

and the functions these groups perform.

4.5.4 Define the term cultural group, identify the challenges faced by

diverse cultural groups in Indiana history, and give examples of both conflict and

cooperation among groups.

4.5.5 Locate and explain the settlement patterns of various cultural,

racial, and religious groups in Indiana of the past and present.

1Taken from the Indiana’s Academic Standards for Social Studies. At the date this lesson was
produced, the standards had not been adopted. The draft is expected to be adopted by 2002.