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Build your own India!
Lesson aims:
•In this lesson we will see the main physical features
of India
•You will be producing a 3 D model of India
• Your model needs to be as exact as possible and it
can show specific areas of India eg. Deccan Plateau
Thanks to Sarah Todd and her colleagues at Stanchester High School,
Somerset made available through www.sln.org.uk/geography
What 10 keys things did you you
find out on your Indian passport?
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Somerset made available through www.sln.org.uk/geography
Fasten your seat belt – we are now
going to take off for India
• Please check…….
• Your luggage is
stored away in the
overhead cabin
• You have a good
window seat to see
the layout of the
country!
Thanks to Sarah Todd and her colleagues at Stanchester High School,
Somerset made available through www.sln.org.uk/geography
Follow the route planner on
the overhead screen
• Our flight will
last
approximately 9
hours.
• You will fly out
across Europe
and then across
the Arabian Sea
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Somerset made available through www.sln.org.uk/geography
What can you see out of the
window…?
• The shape and
layout of the
land….
• The rivers, the
mountains, the
coastline…
• What is your first
impression?
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Somerset made available through www.sln.org.uk/geography
Build your own India
• Let’s look closely at the land
– where is it highest?
Lowest?
• Look at our model of the
land on ‘make a model of
India’ worksheet, shade the
different heights using the
key
• Use the atlas – what are the
Northerly, Western and
Eastern highlands known as?
Thanks to Sarah Todd and her colleagues at Stanchester High School,
Somerset made available through www.sln.org.uk/geography
Building India…
• Remember:
Use the second worksheet , and the card to start to
model India’s land….
= Indian
Ocean
BLUE
• Layer
Divide1your
card into
6
• The blue is the sea (this is the Indian Ocean)…
Layer 2 = Coastline and main land Orange
• Now cut out the whole of India on Orange – this is 0200m 3 = 200m Peach
Layer
• Then cut out 200m and above
4 =out
500m
Green
• Layer
Then cut
500m
and above
• Then cut out 1000m and above – care there are some
Layer
5 = 1000m Yellow
small areas here.
• Layer
Finally6cut
out 4000m
= 4000m
Redand above.
Thanks to Sarah Todd and her colleagues at Stanchester High School,
Somerset made available through www.sln.org.uk/geography
Add the detail and finishing
touches!!
• Now the model has it’s
layers add on the key
physical features:
• River Ganges
• Western and Eastern
Ghats
• Deccan Plateau
• Himalayas
• Arabian Sea
• Indian Ocean
Try and
remember these
physical features
for next lesson –
you might be able
to guess where
most people
would like to, or
not like to live!!
Thanks to Sarah Todd and her colleagues at Stanchester High School,
Somerset made available through www.sln.org.uk/geography
Thank you for flying
Stanchester Airways..
Warning:Before you leave can
you please make sure All unnamed baggage will be
disposed of by airport
you have securely
staff as a security measure
fastened your model
(and it will not get
(ie stuck it down onto
marked!!)
a sheet of A3 paper).
Place your name on it
for quick recovery at
baggage collection!
Thanks to Sarah Todd and her colleagues at Stanchester High School,
Somerset made available through www.sln.org.uk/geography