Cooking

Learn about the foods that were eaten by the Indus Valley people; explore the types of evidence found that show the diet of the Indus Valley people; eat some of the foods you learnabout.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To list the foods that the Indus Valley people ate and understand how archaeologists discovered which foods were eaten.
• To create a design for an Indus Valley pot and make an observational drawing of a cereal crop that was eaten by the Indus Valley people.

Children will:

• Describe the foods that were eaten by the Indus Valley people and appreciate that they ate well and were healthy.
• Understand the types of evidence found that show the diet of the Indus Valley people.
• Improve their mastery of art and design techniques.

• Examples of Indus Valley pots
• Pot outline

• Drawing paper
• Pastels
• Sketching pencils
• Samples of wheat, barley and/or millet if possible
• Samples of foods that chn may not have tasted previously, e.g. figs, dates, apricots, lentils, chickpeas (some may need cooking first!)

There are no weblinks needed for this session.