Sanitation

Learn how cleanliness was important to the Indus Valley people and how they created a complex sanitation system; construct drains, reservoirs and wells for the class model Indus Valley city.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To describe the complex sanitation system of the Indus Valley people.
• To add signs of the sanitation system to their model Indus Valley houses and combine the houses to create an Indus Valley city.

Children will:

• Explain that cleanliness was important to the Indus Valley people.
• Describe the complex sanitation system of the Indus Valley people.
• Construct drains, reservoirs and wells for a model Indus Valley city.

• Sanitation images

• Card
• kitchen towel inner cardboard tubes or similar
• cereal boxes
• Scissors
• Glue
• Air-dried clay
• Paints and brushes

Click on Home Life and then Professor Indus game at the bottom of the page from bbc.co.uk