India

We will spend the rest of this week on key physical features of India. The students will work with a partner to "investigate" an assigned feature. In addition to finding the location, students will research industries/jobs associated with the feature, main population centers, natural resources, and problems associated with the features. Each pair of students will create a poster to present the information.  Then students will use the posters to record information about all of the features on a graphic organizer.

India Resources

The movie Gandhi (1982) is excellent and available on Netflix.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/gandhi/

This PBS website includes information about culture, history and religion of India and includes a timeline and photographs.

http://www.pbs.org/thestoryofindia/resources/websites/

BBC website profile of India.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12557384

This website provides the history of the partition of India including an annotated timeline.

http://english.emory.edu/Bahri/Part.html

This is the website of an Indian scholar that includes information about the culture and history of India as well as his blog.

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/

This website has a map of a virtual Indian village that you can roam.

http://virtualvillage.wesleyan.edu