Indiana

Indiana

Ages 5–11 · 14 minutes · Geography

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Common Core State Standards

  • D2.Geo.2.3-5 — Individually and with others, students… Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their environmental characteristics.
  • D2.Geo.3.3-5 — Individually and with others, students… Use maps of different scales to describe the locations of cultural and environmental characteristics.
  • D2.Geo.5.3-5 — Individually and with others, students… Explain how the cultural and environmental characteristics of places change over time.

Alabama

  • SS10.5.1.1 — Locating on a map states and capitals east of the Mississippi River

Alaska

  • 1 — know that places have distinctive geographic characteristics;
  • 1 — use maps and globes to locate places and regions;
  • 7 — understand that a region is a distinct area defined by one or more cultural or physical features; and
  • There are many different kinds of living things in any area, and they exist in different places on land and in water.
  • Some kinds of plants and animals that once lived on Earth are no longer found anywhere.

Arizona

  • 2.G1.1 — Use and construct maps, graphs, and other geographic representations of familiar and unfamiliar places in the world; and locate physical and human features. • Key physical features include but are not limited to seven continents, oceans, lakes, rivers, mountain ranges, coasts, seas, and deserts • Key human features include but are not limited to equator, hemispheres, North and South Pole, cities, states, countries, regions, and landmarks
  • 5.G1.1 — Use and construct maps and graphs to represent changes in the United States. • Key concepts include but are not limited to physical and human features of the United States, the regions of the United States and their characteristics, geographic location of major events, the growth of the United States through territorial expansion, demographic changes, and the states and their capitals
  • 2.G1.2 — Use maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify and explain cultural and environmental characteristics of places in the world based on stories shared. Arizona History and Social Science Standards modified 8/23/19 Page 19
  • 5.G2.1 — Describe how natural and human-caused changes to habitats or climate can impact our world. Examining human population and movement helps individuals understand past, present, and future conditions on Earth’s surface.

Arkansas

  • G.1.1.2 — Describe the physical and human characteristics of a place including roads, buildings, and borders using maps, globes, and photographs.
  • G.1.3.5 — Investigate the cultural characteristics of various places and regions from around the world.

California

  • 1.2.1 — Locate on maps and globes their local community, California, the United States, the seven continents, and the four oceans.
  • 3 — Students use a variety of maps and documents to identify physical and cultural features of neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries and to explain the historical migration of people, expansion and disintegration of empires, and the growth of economic systems.

Colorado

  • SS.3.2.1 — Use geographic tools to develop spatial thinking skills.
  • SS.5.2.1 — Use geographic tools and sources to research and answer questions about United States geography.
  • SS.1.2.1 — Use geographic terms and tools to describe places and spaces.

Connecticut

  • GEO 2.6 — Identify cultural and environmental characteristics of a place/region.
  • GEO 3.2 — Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their environmental characteristics.
  • GEO 2.5 — Explain how humans affect the culture and environment of places/region.
  • GEO 3.5 — Explain how the cultural and environmental characteristics of places change over time.

Delaware

  • There are many different kinds of living things in any area, and they exist in different places on land and in water.
  • G.1.4-5a — Students will demonstrate development of mental maps of Delaware and of the United States which include the relative location and characteristics of major physical features, political divisions, and human settlements. Grade 4
  • K-3a — Students will use the concepts of place and region to explain simple patterns of connections between and among places across the country and the world. Grade 3
  • G.1.K-3a — Students will understand the nature and uses of maps, globes, and other geo-graphics. Grade K and Grade 3

Florida

  • SS.3.G.2.3 — Label the states in each of the five regions of the United States.
  • SS.3.G.2.5 — Identify natural and man-made landmarks in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
  • SS.5.G.1.6 — Locate and identify states, capitals, and United States Territories on a map.
  • SS.3.G.2.4 — Describe the physical features of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

Hawaii

  • There are many different kinds of living things in any area, and they exist in different places on land and in water.
  • SS.2.3.13.4 — Describe major geographic features of places using maps, photos, and other geographic representations
  • Some kinds of plants and animals that once lived on Earth are no longer found anywhere.
  • SS.3.3.13.1 — Analyze how geographical features affect human life in local communities and those around the world

Idaho

  • 5.SS.2.1.2 — Identify the regions of the United States and their resources.
  • 5.SS.2.1.4 — Name and locate the 50 States and their Capitals, and U.S. Territories.

Illinois

  • SS.5.G.2 — Investigate and explain how the cultural and environmental characteristics of places within the United States change over time.

Indiana

  • 3.G.5 — Explain that regions are areas that have similar physical and cultural characteristics. Identify Indiana and the local community as part of a specific region.
  • 4.G.2 — Locate Indiana on a map as one of the 50 United States. Identify and describe the location of the state capital, major cities, and rivers in Indiana.
  • 4.G.5 — Describe Indiana’s landforms (lithosphere), water features (hydrosphere), and plants and animals (biosphere).
  • 4.G.3 — Map and describe the physical regions of Indiana and identify major natural resources and agricultural/crop regions. (E)

Iowa

  • SS.K.14. — Compare environmental characteristics in Iowa with other places.

Kansas

  • There are many different kinds of living things in any area, and they exist in different places on land and in water.
  • Benchmark 4.5.1 — The student will recognize and evaluate dynamic relationships that impact lives in communities, states, and nations.

Kentucky

  • There are many different kinds of living things in any area, and they exist in different places on land and in water.
  • 2.G.GR.1 — Examine geographic features of places in North America, using a variety of geographic data, including maps, photos and other geographic tools.
  • K.G.KGE.1 — Identify physical and environmental characteristics of communities.

Louisiana

  • 2.21 — Describe geographic features and physical characteristics of places in the United States and the world, including mountains, hills, plains, deserts, coasts, islands, peninsulas, lakes, oceans, and rivers.
  • 3.20 — Describe the geographic features of places in the United States.
  • 3.27 — Describe the importance of conservation and preservation.

Massachusetts

  • 4.T4c.1 — On a political map of the United States, locate the states in the Midwest; add to the timeline the admission dates for states in the Midwest (listed alphabetically: Illinois-1818, Indiana-1816, Iowa-1846, Kansas-1861, Michigan-1838, Minnesota-1858, Missouri-1821, Nebraska-1867, North Dakota-1889, Ohio-1803, South Dakota-1889, Wisconsin-1848).
  • 4.T4c.4 — Using resources such as print and online atlases, historical sources, or national or state websites, construct a map of a state in the Midwest region that provides information about physical features (e.g., waterways and mountains), natural resources and industries such as agriculture and that includes a title, scale, compass, and map key.

Michigan

  • 4–G1.0.3 — Use geographic tools and technologies, stories, songs, and pictures to answer geographic questions about the United States.
  • 4–G2.0.1 — Describe ways in which the United States can be divided into different regions.
  • 4–G2.0.2 — Locate and describe human and physical characteristics of major U.S. regions and compare them to the Great Lakes region.
  • 4-G5.0.1 — Assess the positive and negative consequences of human activities on the physical environment of the United States and identify the causes of those activities.

Minnesota

  • 4.3.2.3.1 — Locate and identify the physical and human characteristics of places in the United States, and also Canada or Mexico. For example: Physical characteristics—landforms (Rocky Mountains), ecosystems (forest), bodies of water (Mississippi River, Hudson Bay), soil, vegetation, weather and climate. Human characteristics— structures (Statue of Liberty), bridges (Golden Gate Bridge), canals (Erie Canal), cities, political boundaries, population distribution, settlement patterns, language, ethnicity, nationality, religious beliefs.
  • 4.3.2.4.1 — Name and locate states and territories, major cities and state capitals in the United States.
  • 2.3.1.1.3 — Use maps, photos or other geographic tools to identify and locate major landmarks or major physical features of the United States. For example: Physical features—the Atlantic Coast, Rocky Mountains, Mississippi River, Lake Superior. Landmarks—Statue of Liberty, Angel Island, Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial.
  • 4 — People construct regions to identify, organize and interpret areas of the earth’s surface, which simplifies the earth’s complexity.

Mississippi

  • 5.10.2 — Identify and label each of the 50 states on a map.
  • 6.5.1 — Describe the distinguishing physical and human characteristics of the United States and other countries.
  • 1.G.1.4 — Understand the relationship of the location of a place from community to county, state, nation, and continent (Jackson is in Hinds County, which is in the state of Mississippi, which is in the country of the USA and on the continent of North America).
  • 5.9.2 — Identify school, community, state, and national symbols (e.g., United States flag, American eagle, etc.).

Missouri

  • 4.EG.5.B.a — Name and locate specific regions, states, capitals, river systems and mountain ranges in the United States based on historical or current topics.
  • 4.EG.5.C.a — Identify and compare physical characteristics of specific regions within the nation.

Montana

  • SS.G.5.1 — identify and label US regions, territories, states and their capitals/major cities;
  • SS.G.3.3 — identify landforms and other physical characteristics of the Americas.
  • SS.CG.3.3 — identify key symbols of nations.
  • SS.E.2.1 — describe the goods and services that people in the local, state, and national community produce;

Nebraska

  • SS 5.3.1.a — Use maps and atlases to locate major human and physical features in the United States.
  • SS 5.3.1 — Explore where (spatial) and why people, places, and environments are organized in the United States.
  • SS 5.3.2.b — Identify and classify regions and places within the United States using physical and human features.
  • SS 4.1.2.b — Investigate the meaning of state symbols, songs, and holidays.

New Hampshire

  • SS.GE.2.1.3 — Identify major physical and human features in the United States and on Earth, e.g., cities, oceans, or continents. (Themes: C: People, Places and Environment, G: Science, Technology, and Society)
  • SS.GE.2.2.1 — Explore the physical and human characteristics of place, e.g., roads, schools or mountains. (Themes: C: People, Places and Environment, E: Cultural Development, Interaction, and Change, G: Science, Technology, and Society)
  • SS.GE.2.2.2 — Recognize that areas of the Earth's surface share unifying geographic characteristics, e.g., towns, deserts or woodlands. (Themes: C: People, Places and Environment)
  • SS.GE.6.3.4 — Explain how human activities influence changes in ecosystems, e.g., the introduction of exotic species. (Themes: C: People, Places and Environment, G: Science, Technology, and Society)
  • SS.HI.2.4.1 — Identify different segments of the United States economy, e.g., farm, manufacturing, or retail. (Themes: D: Material Wants and Needs, G: Science, Technology, and Society)

New Jersey

  • 6.1.2.Geo.HE.3 — Identify cultural and environmental characteristics of different regions in New Jersey and the United States.
  • 6.1.5.GeoSV.4 — Use a variety of geographic representations to describe the similarities and differences between places in New Jersey, the United States and the world (e.g., maps, data visualizations, graphs, diagrams, aerial and other photographs, GPS).
  • 6.1.5.GeoHE.1 — Use a variety of sources from multiple perspectives, including aerial photographs or satellite images to describe how human activity has impacted the physical environment during different periods of time in New Jersey and the United States.
  • 6.1.5.GeoPP.1 — Compare and contrast characteristics of regions in the United States based on culture, economics, and physical characteristics to understand the concept of regionalism.

New Mexico

  • K.10 — Identify the local, state, and national symbols (e.g., flag, bird, song).
  • 1.18 — Use a variety of maps to locate specific places and identify major landforms, bodies of water, and other places of significance around the United States.
  • 5.27 — Using a map, identify and locate the 50 states in the United States and know the capitals of each state along with the surrounding U.S. territories.
  • 5.25 — Demonstrate how the states are organized, including time zones and the regions of the United States.

New York

  • E.3.1 — Geography can be divided into six essential elements which can be used to analyze important historic, geographic, economic, and environmental questions and issues. These six elements include: the world in spatial terms, places and regions, physical settings (including natural resources), human systems, environment and society, and the use of geography. (Adapted from The National Geography Standards, 1994: Geography for Life)
  • 5.4c — The physical environment influences human population distribution, land use, and other forms of economic activity.
  • K-ESS3-1 — Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.

North Carolina

  • K.G.1.1 — Use maps, globes, and/or digital representations to locate places in the classroom, school, community, and around the world.
  • 2.G.1.1 — Recognize absolute and relative location of various settlements, territories, and states in the development of the American nation.
  • K.G.1.2 — Identify physical features of places using maps, globes, and/or digital representations.
  • 1.G.1.1 — Use maps, globes, and/or digital representations to identify various types of landforms of places around the world.

Ohio

  • 1.5 — Places are distinctive because of their physical characteristics (land forms and bodies of water) and human characteristics (structures built by people).
  • 3.5 — Daily life is influenced by the agriculture, industry and natural resources in different communities.
  • K.LS.1 — Living things have specific characteristics and traits.

Oklahoma

  • 4.2.3 — Explain how people create regions using common geographic characteristics. A. Identify and describe the major physical, cultural, and economic regions of the United States, comparing one’s own region to the other regions. B. Explain how and why regions change over time by comparing regions in the past with life in the same regions in the present.
  • 4.2.5 — Identify and locate on a political map the fifty states and the United States capitol.
  • 4.2.2 — Identify major physical features in the United States and analyze how physical processes shape places. A. Identify and describe the physical characteristics of places, including the major landforms, bodies of water, vegetation and climates in the United States. B. Describe the location and characteristics of the major ecosystems in the United States.

Oregon

  • 5.9 — Use geographical tools (maps, satellite images, photographs, Google Earth, and other representations) to investigate and compare how areas in the United States can be divided in multiple ways.

Pennsylvania

  • 7.1.3.B — Identify and locate places and regions.
  • 7.4.3.B — Identify the impacts of people on physical systems.
  • 7.4.3.A — Identify the impacts of physical systems on people.

Rhode Island

  • SS3.4.2 — States in the Midwest Explain the states that make up the Midwestern region including their admittance to the United States and their identities
  • SS3.4.1 — Geography and environment of the Midwest Explain the geography and environment of the Midwestern region of the United States
  • SS3.4.4 — The Midwestern region today Argue how the geography and environment of the Midwestern region contributed to its social, cultural, and economic development
  • SS3.1.3 — States and territories Explain what states and territories are and their locations within the United States

South Carolina

  • 2.G.2 — Describe and compare various landforms over time within the U.S. through the use of primary and secondary sources. This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into using historic images, maps, narratives, texts, or video, to investigate and compare different landforms around the U.S.
  • 3.1.3.PR — Identify the spatial hierarchy of political and physical geographic features. This indicator prompts students to inquire about spatial hierarchies (i.e. scale) to understand connections between Earth's systems. Political features include cities, states, and countries. Physical features include forests, mountains, oceans, and rivers.
  • 2.G.3 — Explain how the distribution of human features, physical features, and natural resources within the U. S changes over time and impacts economic activity. This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into how rivers, lakes, mountains, and other land features affect economic activity. This indicator also prompts students to explore how different geographic areas support different activities in different times due the availability of resources.
  • 3.2.2.ER — Identify and analyze the ways people interact with the physical environment in different regions of the state, the country, and the world.This indicator prompts students to inquire about a variety of geographic landforms, water bodies, and climate patterns around the world and how humans interact with them, including population distribution and settlement patterns.

South Dakota

  • 3.G.1.2 — Locate the seven continents, four oceans, and major physical features and regions of the United States on a map or globe
  • K.G.1.1 — Recognize that maps and globes represent places
  • 4.G.1.1 — Locate major political and physical features of South Dakota and the United States on a map or globe

Tennessee

  • 3.09 — Identify and locate the fifty states of the U.S.
  • SSP.06 — Develop geographic awareness by: • Identifying geographic symbols on maps and globes • Understanding relationships between people, places, and resources

Texas

  • 5.6C — locate on a map important political features such as the five largest cities by population in the United States and the 50 states; and

Utah

  • K.2.3.b — Recognize state and national symbols (e.g., state and national flags, bald eagle, seagull, Statue of Liberty).
  • 1.3.1.d — Identify the United States on a variety of maps and on a globe.

Vermont

  • D2.Geo.2.3-5 — Individually and with others, students… Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their environmental characteristics.
  • D2.Geo.3.3-5 — Individually and with others, students… Use maps of different scales to describe the locations of cultural and environmental characteristics.
  • D2.Geo.5.3-5 — Individually and with others, students… Explain how the cultural and environmental characteristics of places change over time.
  • D2.Geo.10.3-5 — Individually and with others, students… Explain why environmental characteristics vary among different world regions.

Virginia

  • Skill.2.b — The student will apply history and social science skills to the content by applying geographic skills to identify and understand geographic features and connections.
  • USI.1.c — The student will apply history and social science skills to understand the geography of North America by locating the 50 states.
  • Skill.2.i — The student will apply history and social science skills to the content by using content vocabulary to demonstrate comprehension.

Washington

  • G1.3.2 — Investigate the physical, political, and cultural characteristics of places, regions, and people in North America, including the location of the fifty states within the regions of the United States.
  • G2.2.1 — Identify some common and unique cultural and environmental characteristics of specific places.
  • G1.2.2 — Use maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify cultural and environmental characteristics of places.
  • G1.3.1 — Examine and use maps and globes to understand the regions of North America in the past and present.

Washington, D.C.

  • 1.18 — Compare the features of a city, county, state, country and continent.
  • 1.19 — Locate and explain physical features on maps.
  • K-ESS3-1 — Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.

West Virginia

  • SS.3.19 — Compare and contrast regions of the United States in regard to plant and animal life, landforms, climate and human interactions with the environment.
  • SS.5.17 — Compare and contrast the various regions of the United States; locate each of the fifty United States and correlate them with their regions.
  • SS.3.13 — Distinguish between a continent, country, state and capital.

Wisconsin

  • SS.Geog1.c.4-5 — Create and label a map (paper or digital) of the local community, state, tribal lands, and country, including both physical (e.g., oceans and continents) and human (e.g., roads, buildings) characteristics. Identify and construct regions (digital or paper) in Wisconsin and the United States.
  • SS.Geog5.b.2 — Identify natural resources (e.g., fertile soil, forests, mining) of a place and provide examples of how those resources are used.
  • SS.PS1.a.K-1 — Describe symbols, songs, and traditions that identify our state and country. Assess the importance of rules and laws at home, in school, and in the community.
  • There are many different kinds of living things in any area, and they exist in different places on land and in water.

Wyoming

  • SS2.5.1 — Spatial Use a map, globe, and mental mapping to identify familiar areas and simple patterns and create maps using various media. 2-ESS2-2
  • SS5.5.2 — Physical Place and Region Explain how physical features, patterns, and systems impact different regions and how these features may help us generalize and compare areas within the reservation, state, nation, or world. RL.3.2, RL.4.7, RL.4.9 RI.3.3, RI.4.3, RI.5.3 W.3.2, W.3.7, W.4.2.b W.5.2.b W.5.7 SL.3.4
  • K-ESS3-1 — Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.