Indiana

Summary
A lesson on the state of Indiana. The reading is accompanied by true/false questions.

Objectives
• To introduce students to salient features about the state of Indiana and its history.

Suggested Grades
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade

Excerpt
Indiana is located in the Midwest, bordered to the east by Ohio and to the west by Illinois. The Ohio River separates Indiana from Kentucky to the south. Michigan is to the north and the southern tip of Lake Michigan, one of the five Great Lakes, is at the northwestern edge of Indiana.

Early History
Similar to other areas in North America, people lived in Indiana around 10,000 BCE. Historians call these people Paleo-Indians; they hunted the mammals of the time like mammoths and mastodons. The next stage in the history of North America is the Archaic Period which began about 6,000 years ago. One of the major developments of the Archaic Period was the use of fire for cooking foods. In fact, in 2006 archaeologists verified finding the remains of a cooking area, along with evidence of food stores that date to 2,000 BCE in one of Indiana?s state parks.

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