Lesson plan Locational knowledge and environmental regions India
LEARNING OBJECTIVE:
TO LOCATE INDIA ON A MAP AND ITS MAIN CITIES.
TO LEARN ABOUT THE KEY ENVIRONMENTAL REGIONS OF INDIA.
Starter: Find India on the map and label it clearly. Extension task: Try and label New Delhi, Mumbai and any other big cities you may know.
Answer:
Quick fire facts:
India has the second largest population in the world after China. In 2013, the population of India was 1.27 billion people.
There are nearly fifty cities in India with a population of 1 million people or more.
The capital city of India is New Delhi, this is in the north of India this has 11,007,835 inhabitants according to the census in 2011.
The largest city in India is called Mumbai with 12,478,447 inhabitants according to the 2011 census.
India used to be part of the British Empire and gained independence in 1947.
The life expectancy in India is around 67.5 years.
Over 80% of people in India are Hindus, 13% are Muslim, 2% are Christian and the remaining 5% are mainly Sikh or Buddhist.
Around 25% of India's population still live on less than $1.25 a day.
MAIN BODY OF LESSON Environmental Regions Task: Create a spider diagram in pairs that describes all the environmental regions in India.
The Himalayas has an alpine tundra climate where snow lies on the ground all year.
The Indo-Gangetic Plain in the north of India has a humid sub-tropical climate with hot, wet summers and cold, dry winters. It is 700,000 km2 and was formed from the sedimentsof the rivers that flow from the Himalayas. Thick forests grow here and the region is farmed for rice, wheat, maize, sugar cane and cotton.
The Thar Desert is is a hot desert found in north-west India. It is over 200,000 km2 and temperatures range from 5 degrees celsius in the winter to 50 degrees celsius in the summer.
The Deccan Plateau rises approximately 600m above sea level and covers 1.3 million km2 of central and southern India. It is a semi-arid region with vegetation that varies from thorn bushes to forests and wildlife including tigers and Indian elephants. Tea and coffee plantations are found on the Deccan Plateau.
The Western Ghats, on the west coast of southern India, have a tropical wet climate where temperatures do not fall below 18 degrees celsius and tropical forests grow.
(Use pictures on spider diagram) PLENARY: Pupils show their posters and talk through them.