Lesson Planning

Investigate the board games that have been discovered in Indus Valley excavations; make up a game based on the board and pieces found.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To understand that the Indus Valley people played board games, but that historians do not know how the games were played.
• To create a board game based on the Indus Valley artefacts.
• To write rules for the board game.

Children will:

• Describe the board games that have been discovered in Indus Valley excavations.
• Understand that no-one knows how the games were played.
• Make up a game based on the board and pieces found.
• Write clear rules for playing the game.