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India Unit for kids

November 23, 2015 Ticia 8 Comments

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*, but I’m not sure), writing about our India unit (our original attempt) didn’t happen.

India activities for kids

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India Unit books

books about India

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

Gandhi lesson for kids

We started off our unit learning about Gandhi.  He’s an interesting man, and I very much enjoyed learning about him from his grandson.

Hinduism lesson for kids Ganesh art project

Then we learned about Hinduism, you cannot learn about India without learning about Hinduism.

India for kids activity

We read a few fables from India and had fun coming up with our own insights.

Indianotebookingpage.jpg

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

India unit 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.

India unit activities for kids to learn

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

geography 3rd grade, Asia

Comments

  1. Phyllis says

    November 23, 2015 at 8:33 am

    I love this! My kids pages often look like that, too.

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      November 23, 2015 at 3:41 pm

      It amuses me how their pages do not look anything like what I visualize it looking like

  2. maryanne @ mama smiles says

    November 23, 2015 at 2:54 pm

    Looks like you made a fun lapbook!

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      November 23, 2015 at 3:41 pm

      Thanks!

  3. Natalie PlanetSmartyPants says

    November 23, 2015 at 7:46 pm

    Such a cool unit! We need to repeat India… one of these days 😀

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      November 23, 2015 at 7:58 pm

      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.

  4. claire says

    November 24, 2015 at 4:14 am

    We’ll be doing India next year so thank you again for posting your book choices 🙂

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      November 24, 2015 at 7:43 am

      You’re welcome! Hopefully it inspires some ideas in your head.

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