MACRO PLAN
Rural livelihoods
Grade – VI
Micro Plan
Name of the lesson – In The Earliest Cities
Grade- VI
Periods – 4
Period-1
Minute Sub Topic
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5 Introduction
minutes
10 Motivation
minutes
20
Minute
s
10 Child involvement activity-
minutes
Period- 2
Minute Sub Topic
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5 Recapitulation based on previous knowledge
minutes
5 Ask some questions from the previous topic
minutes
25 Explanation on Houses, drains and streets, Life in the city & New crafts in the city
Minute
s
10 Child involvement activity
minutes
Period- 3
Minute Sub Topic
s
5 Recapitulation based on previous topic
minutes
05 Ask some questions from the previous topic
minutes
20
Minute
s
10
minutes
Child involvement activity
Period – 4
Minute Sub Topic
s
5 Recap of the previous topic
minutes
25 Explanation of A closer look - Harappan towns in Gujarat
minutes
15 Child involvement activity
Minute
s
MICRO PLAN
In the Earliest Cities
Grade – VI
General Objective:
● to develop students' interest in the subject.
● to understand society and its place within it.
● developing scientific temperament among the students.
● to develop skills of inquiry, investigation, and analysis.
● to enhance students' learning ability.
Specific Objective:
● Students will know how Harappa was found.
● They will also learn about the two parts of Harappa city.
● Finally, Students will also understand the similarities of Harappan
Learning Outcome:
● After the completion of this chapter, students will be able to
● explain the topic how people started growing crops.
● discuss about source of History.
● sketch out the information we get from ancient sources and
● find facts about growing seeds, taming animals and discovering
fire.
Introduction-
T: Have you visited any village?
S: Yes mam. In holidays and vacations.
T: How is the life in village?
S: Life is slow and peaceful in village.
T: Using the above picture describe the work you see people doing.
S: Farming, fruit seller, labourers, fishing.
T: Identify the types of work that are related to farming and those that
are not.
S: Farming - people doing farming in the farm.
Not related to farming - Fishing, construction labourers, shop
T: So, we have seen the occupation related to farming and non farming.
We are going to learn about types of jobs in villages - 'Rural livelihoods'
Explanation-
Kalpattu is village close to sea coast in Tamil Nadu. People here do non
farm works- making baskets, utensils, pots , bricks etc. There are people
doing other services like teachers, blacksmith, nurses, weavers etc.
T: What is skilled occupations?
S: Basket weaving, blacksmith, tailor etc
T: What are the small scale business found around you?
S: Tiffin centres, tea shops, barber shop, grocery shop.
T: Very good. What is the village surrounded by?
S: Low hills .
T: What is the main crop grown in irrigated lands?
S: Paddy is the main crop that is grown in irrigated lands.
T: Explanation -
Coconut groves, cotton, sugarcane and plaintain are grown
Extra information -
Plaintains is long and starchy banana grown in
Question 4 State some specialities about the earliest cities?
Cities had covered drains, houses, drains and streets were planned and built
at the same time. Harappan city was a very busy place.
Rulers planned the construction of special buildings. Scribes helped prepare
seals.
.What does citadel literally mean?
Answer: A citadel is the fortified area of a town or city. It may be a castle,
fortress, or fortified center. The term is a diminutive of "city", meaning "little
city", because it is a smaller part of the city of which it is the defensive core.
Question 6: what are the different house drains and streets you have seen?
Question 7: list atleast two differences between the houses described here
and those you studied earlier?
Answer:The houses in Harappa were either one or two storeys high, with
rooms built around a courtyard. Most houses had a separate bathing area
and some had wells to supply water
Question 8: compare and contrast between today's cities and earliest cities.
Answer: In modern cities there are various industries present while in the
ancient cities there were no or very few industries. The modern cities grow in
population and so do their efficiencies and productivity. Modern cities have
developed more infrastructure than ancient cities.There was more social
integration in the Harappan cities as compared to the present day cities. The
present day cities are more quick paced as compared to the Harappan cities.
The Harappan people gave high importance to the culture, while the
importance of culture is falling in the present day.
Question 9: What are the main differences between modern towns and the
cities of the past like orugallu?
Answer: Old cities like Orugallu lacks the modern facilities and the
transportation were also not developed. Cities commonly have extended
arrangements for housing, transport, hygiene, services, land use patterns,
and communication. Their density promotes cooperation between people,
management companies
Question 10: What are the similarities between Harappan cities and modern
cities?
Answer: Similarities between harappa and modern town planning are as
under; (i) Brick houses are used for shelter. (ii) Use of the godown system.
(iii) The similar sewage system.
Question 11: How was Mohenjo-Daro different from cities today?
Answer: Mohenjo-Daro was one of the most ancient examples of urban
planning. It was built using a grid system, similar to modern day city blocks.
This was very unlike other urban areas of that time period. The city also had
an intricate plumbing system, with hundreds of wells located in streets and
in domestic areas.
Question 12: How are Indus Valley cities different from cities of other early
civilizations?
Answer: Unlike Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt, the inhabitants of the Indus
Valley Civilization did not build large, monumental structures. There is no
conclusive evidence of palaces or temples—or even of kings, armies, or
priests—and the largest structures may be granaries.
Question 13: What were two of the best known cities in ancient India? And
why
By 2500 B.C., the Indus civilization was large enough to have two major
cities. One was Mohenjo-Daro and the other was Harappa, 400 miles to the
northeast
Question 14: What were the two common features found in most of the
Harappan cities? Can you compare any modern cities of today with those
i) Each city was divided into two parts-the raised area called the 'Citadel' and
the 'lower town. ' ii) The main streets followed a grid pattern running from
north to south or from east to west. iii) The houses at street corners were
rounded to allow carts to pass easily.
Question 15: How are the cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa different from
previous cities?
The cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro are believed to be the first in the
world to clean the city using drainage and sewer systems. Families were able
to get fresh water from wells all around the city and store it in their homes.
Question 16: What difference do you find between the Harappan cities and
the cities of today?
Answer: (i) There was more social integration in the Harappan cities as
compared to the present day cities. (ii) The present day cities are more quick
paced as compared to the Harappan cities. (iii) The Harappan people gave
high importance to the culture, while the importance of culture is falling in
the present day.
Question 17: How to compare two different cities?
Answer: These are some additional factors/metrics that you'd might want to
consider when comparing two cities:
Employment rates.
Police officer per population ratio.
Mobility and transportation.
Retail and shopping amenities.
Healthcare and hospitals.
Sports and fitness amenities.
Arts and cultural amenities.
Question 18: What are the two features of early Harappan culture?
Answer : the significant feature of indus valley civilization are personal
cleanliness, town planning, construction of burnt-brick houses, ceramics,
casting, forging of metals, manufacturing of cotton and woolen textiles. 3.
Mohenjo-Daro people had finest bath facilities, drainage system, and
knowledge of personal hygiene.
Question 19 : What were the crafts of the Harappan civilisation?
Answer: The artists and craftsmen of the Indus Valley were extremely skilled
in a variety of crafts—metal casting, stone carving, making and painting
pottery and making terracotta images using simplified motifs of animals,
plants and birds
Question 20 : What were the crafts in Harappan civilization ?
Answer.Some of the examples are weaving, pottery, jewellery making, stone
cutting, metal work, tool making, seal making, boat making, masonry,
trading and farming. The crafts made by the people of Harappan civilisation
were made of stone, metal and shell.
Question 21: What were the names of the craft works of Harappan people?
Ans : The distinctive kinds of art and crafts of the Harappan civilization were
metal casting, painting pottery, stone carving, terracotta art, and more.
Question 22: Was metal used in Harappan Civilization?
The Harappan people knew the uses of Iron, Copper and Bronze .
Question 23: How metals were used in Harappan cities?
Answer: Metals such as copper, lead, gold, bronze and silver were used by
the metallurgists of Indus Valley. Several crucibles of copper slag are
discovered here, which marks the beginning of metallurgy. In this era, Gold
and silver were employed as ornaments.
Question 24: Was iron used in Harappan cities?
Answer: Iron was not discovered by the Harappan people. Since it was a
bronze age civilization, it had made many metallurgical advances in copper
and bronze but not in Iron.
Question 25 : Why were metals, writing, the wheel, and the plough important
for the Harappans?
Answer: Metals – used for making tools, ornaments, vessels, weapons Writing
– for communication purpose Wheel – for pottery and for making carts used
for travelling. Plough – used for farming purpose.
