Delhi Resources

CURRICULUM FILE: A Child’s Day In India: Curriculum Unit
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Files and Supplemental Resources for the Delhi portion of the Unit:

Monsoon Images
Monsoon Winds
Images from The Telegraph – Make sure to preview first and make sure all are appropriate/images of India

Welcome to Delhi! Station Files
Welcome to India! Station Resources

Delhi Photo Set Files
delhi photo set
Explanations for Delhi Photo Card Set

Delhi Photo Card #1 Resources
delhi photo card stickers – predictions
delhi photo card labels – observations
delhi photo card stickers – now i know

Delhi Photo Card #2 Resources
Delhi Photo Card 2 – what i noticed labels
Delhi Photo Card 2 – now i know labels

Delhi Photo Card #3 Resources

Listen to Indian Instruments!

School Days Station Resources and Files
delhi – venn diagram for schools
Delhi Schools Photo Set

Flower Necklace Station Files
how to make a paper flower necklace

Shimla Resources

A Steep Road on the way to Shimla

Towns are on the Side of the Mountains, and the roads wind around them

Resources on the Chipko Movement
A short story for kids about the Foundation of the Chipko Movement
Pictures of the Chipko Movement (Use with Thinking Routines activity)

Link to Information about Hanuman: http://www.balagokulam.org/kids/stories/hanuman.php

A Statue of Hanuman

A monkey and her baby guarding the temple

Shimla School Photos Set

Design Your Own Cargo Truck! Template


Link to a Site with Many Images of Indian Cargo Trucks

Ahmedabad and Gandhi Resources

A Prayer written by Gandhi

Gandhi's room at his Ashram near Ahmedabad

A Timeline of Gandhi's Life (on display at his Ashram)

A sculpture of Gandhi. He has a necklace of jasmine flowers around his neck.

Gandhi inspired many people, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A very important quote from Gandhi

I Want to be like Gandhi…

Photos of Slum Schools

Gujarati Lesson Video:
Gujarati Lesson Video – Kids’ Response:

Southern India Resources

Offerings to present to the Goddess

Designs are painted in great detail on the ceilings of the temple

One of the five large towers of the temple

A father who teaches his kids Mridangam

Beginning and Advanced Bharatanatyam students

Beginning Bharatanatyan students (about 3rd grade)

Advanced Bharatanatyam students

After a costume change, beginning Bharatanatyam students with an older student

Bharatanatyam students

Bharatanatyam students

Colored silk thread that is ready to be woven into silk fabric.

A Southern Indian Meal

Peafowl Links:
National Geographic – Peafowl

San Diego Zoo: Peafowl – with audio!

Peafowl Webquest Document

Sitar Demonstration by the music teacher at the Private School

Mridangam Demonstration

Bharatanatyam Demonstration

Classroom in Southern India (Private School)

School Assembly: Song (Private School)

Morning Exercises (Rural School)

Preschoolers Singing (Rural School)

Information about the “Thayam” game (Indian Snakes and Ladders)

A Southern Indian Meal

Weaving a Sari

Colored silk thread that is ready to be woven into silk fabric.

Links about Saris (for the Sari Station):
Sari Photos

How to Wear a Sari

Design your own sari!       Another Sari Template

Design a Sherwani (male attire)
design a sherwani

 

 

Kolkata Resources

An older-model bus in Kolkata. Many people use public transit in Kolkata.

People often cook outdoors. What do you think she is cooking? What would it smell like?

Small police kiosks are found throughout the city.

Most families live in multi-generational households. In this family, there were 24 people and 4 generations!

This was their kitchen. The women in the household cooked for everyone (all 24 people!) three times a day!

If you were a middle-class child in India, you might have a computer station, like this, to do your homework.

Most houses have a small shrine to honor the Gods.

Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in 1950.

The very unassuming street where Mother Teresa lived.

Mother Teresa’s Tomb — thousands visit every month.

Many people find comfort praying at the tomb of Mother Teresa.

A morning assembly at Loreto Day School

One of the buses at Loreto Day School was donated by the people of Japan.

Workers prepare lunch for the 1500+ students at the Loreto Day School each day.

Lots of food has to be prepared to serve 1500 students!

This school even had a computer lab!

This classroom was studying the monsoon season and the water cycle.

A Bengali bulletin board

A bulletin board with vocabulary for the unit of study.

Reading Comprehension and Writing Work Samples

Student Work Sample…do you ever do math like this?

A late elementary classroom at the Loreto Day School

These kits of school supplies are sent to rural areas so their teachers have more materials.

An American volunteer is leading street children in short yoga exercises.

Children are usually very studious in India. These girls are preparing for an exam.

Homeless children keep their few belongings rolled up on these shelves at the Loreto Day School.

A scroll painter spreads out her paintings to sell.

Kolkata Traffic

Information on the Loreto Day School

Children Singing in the Loreto Day School

Children Singing (in English) in Kindergarten…look at how many kids are in one classroom!

What Would You Do? Station Materials
What Would You Do? Station Photo Cards
What Would You Do graphic organizer

A scroll painter spreads out her paintings to sell.

An Undersea Scroll Painting

Varanasi and Agra Resources

Boatmen on the Ganges River

Boats in the Ganges River

This little girl, Priya, was selling candles by the river. Many children work in India when they’re not in school.

Explanatory marker about the stupa

Remains of a carving of Buddha at Sarnath

The stupa (structure containing Buddhist relics) at Sarnath

The World’s Largest Standing Buddha Statue in Sarnath

Patterns at a former palace in Agra

Patterns at a former palace in Agra

Patterns at a mosque

Patterns at a Mosque

Patterns at a mosque in Agra

Arabic tile inlay at a mosque

The Taj Mahal and surrounding gardens

The Taj Mahal

Patterns at the Taj Mahal

Patterns at the “Baby Taj”

Freshly painted mendhi

Hands with Mendhi, a few days afterward

Sculpures for Durga Puja

A sculptor with his work

A close-up of a Durga statue that is still being worked on

More Durga Puja clay idols

Sculpures for Durga Puja

A sculptor with his work

A close-up of a Durga statue that is still being worked on

More Durga Puja clay idols

Links about Buddha and Buddhism for Kids
Story of the Buddha (ebook) – for the Story of Buddha Computer Center
A comic strip of a Buddhist Tale

Mendhi Station Resources

Freshly painted mendhi

Hands with Mendhi, a few days afterward

Mendhi Wedding Photo Gallery

Mendhi Hand for Printing and Decorating