Transcript Chembakolli: A village in India

Chembakolli: A village in
India
Long Lane Primary School
Spring 2008
Lesson 1: Where in the world
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We started by finding the UK on a globe
and then Europe.
Next we looked for India and which
continent it is on.
In pairs the children were encouraged to
share what they knew about India. As a
class we discussed facts about India
using a power point from Primary
Resources.
I used the BBC’s Big Book for weather to
show the children how India is a land of
contrasts. ( This also reinforced work
done in Summer 2007)
Chembakolli was introduced to the
children
The children used atlases to locate the
UK and India on a world map outline and
several places including Chembakolli on a
blank map of India
(Maps from Superschemes A Village in India Jo Price)
Lesson 2: Images of Chembakolli
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The children looked at a selection of
images of Chembakolli :
 What can I find out about this
place?
 What don’t these images tell us
about Chembakolli?
 What would they like to find out?
 Do these pictures give a true
impression about India? Why?
(The children thought up some super
questions and very reasoned answers
were given to the last point)
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Next the children had a selection of
images of the UK and in small groups
had to decide which they would send
to India to show what the UK was
like.
This was done to show the limitations of
using images to find out about places
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Lesson 3: The village
The children listened to a
description of Chembakolli and
looked at photographs of the
surrounding area and the village.
This information was then used
to:
 Make a collage of the village these were very colourful!
(lower juniors)
 Map the village using the local
studies CD. (Upper juniors) This
group produced some very
interesting maps and they found
the program very easy to use.
Lesson 4: Homes
The children were asked to consider
3 questions:
 What do the homes look like in
Chembakolli?
 How has their design been
influenced by the weather?
 How are these homes similar
/different to our own?
Children were reminded about the
weather in this part of the world
(reinforcing work conducted in a
previous topic) and then in small
groups they looked at images of
Chembakolli homes to consider these
questions. Together we discussed
the interior of these homes and the
importance of the roofs.
They then recorded their
observations on sketches they had
made of the Chembakolli houses.
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Lesson 5: Shopping
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This lesson the children compared their
own shopping experiences with those in
Chembakolli. We started by asking 3
questions:
Where do you buy most of your food?
How often does your family go shopping?
Where do you store your food at home?
Why?
If we were to ask a child from
Chembakolli the same questions, would
they give the same answers? Why?
During a discussion session, the
children were reminded about what they
had learnt about homes in Chembakolli
(lack of electricity, lack of running
water) and how this could effect their
shopping habits.
We also looked at a range of images
showing Indian food markets and
discussed similarities and differences to
their own shopping experiences.
The lesson was concluded by
thinking about what we had learnt and
what we still did not know.
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Lesson 6: Rural and urban India
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At the start of this lesson I
assessed the children by asking
them to produce a thought shower
of what they had learnt about
Chembakolli. It was very
enlightening!
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This lesson was really an attempt to
the counter stereotypical views
children may have had that India
was Chembakolli. They looked at a
range of images of urban India (rich,
poor, modern) and then compared
them with the images of
Chembakolli. They used the Chapatti
diagram from A village in India
(superschemes) to compare their
own locality with rural and urban
India.
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At the end of the lesson I asked the
children why they may have thought
all of India was like Chembakolli. One
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child reasoned it was because we
only ever saw this side of India in
the media!
All images from Flickr (Creative Commons) Top – Premshee Pillai Bottom- Soulflow
Final display
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