Snapshot

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Indus Valley Introduction to the Indus Valley

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Objectives

History

Gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘civilisation’.
Know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations
Characteristic features of past non-European societies.

Geography

Locate the world’s countries, using maps and focussing on their environmental regions and key physical characteristics.
Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features.
Describe and understand key aspects of physical and human geography.

Lesson Planning

Discover where the Indus Valley civilisation was located; Label maps of the Indus Valley and its surroundings; learn about the terrain and climate of the Indus Valley.

Teaching Outcomes:

To know where the Indus Valley civilisation was located.
To label a map of the Indus Valley and its surroundings and describe the physical and human geography of the area.

Children will:

Be able to explain where the Indus Valley civilisation was located.
Be able to label maps of the Indus Valley and its surroundings.
Describe the terrain and climate of the Indus Valley.

Planning

Provided Resources

Maps of the Indus Valley
Physical geography map of the Indus Valley
Blank Indus Valley maps

Unit Resources

You Will Need

Access to internet
Globe
World map
Atlases

Weblinks

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