We actually completed this homeschool geography unit last year, but times being what they are (anyone know what that’s from, I vaguely remember that being from a movie or play, maybe Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead*
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India Unit books
Our area actually has a fairly large India expat community, so I had a plethora of books to try out with the kids because of that I ended up writing an entire India books post, and highly recommend checking it out because I got a few extra book suggestions on the post afterwards.
India Unit Activities
We started off our unit learning about Gandhi. He’s an interesting man, and I very much enjoyed learning about him from his grandson.
Then we learned about Hinduism, you cannot learn about India without learning about Hinduism.
We read a few fables from India and had fun coming up with our own insights.
A few years ago we learned about the caste system in India, and we talked about that again, but I did not include that in our lapbook this time since officially the caste system is outlawed.
My one regret we did not learn about the Taj Mahal or build it in any way shape or form, which is a great tragedy to my mind. Thankfully we covered it as part of The Mystery of History 3* lessons, so they learned a bit about it that way (Surprisingly there were no books on it in our library, or at least none checked in when I was getting books).
India Lapbook
I put all of the printables for our India lapbook, as simple as they are in the India Printable. Feel free to make as many copies for personal or classroom use as you wish, but make sure to give credit back to me if you’re sharing it elsewhere.
Learn more about India
- India recipe (our attempt at a “real Indian recipe”)
- India Unit Study
- India lesson
- History of India card game
- Rangoli Craft
Want more geography ideas? try The Massive Homeschool Geography Guide
I love this! My kids pages often look like that, too.
It amuses me how their pages do not look anything like what I visualize it looking like
Looks like you made a fun lapbook!
Thanks!
Such a cool unit! We need to repeat India… one of these days 😀
This was a repeat for us, I’ll need to go back and do a bit more with the Taj Mahal, but we’ve got friends that moved there recently.
We’ll be doing India next year so thank you again for posting your book choices 🙂
You’re welcome! Hopefully it inspires some ideas in your head.