A Semi-Detailed Lesson Plan in Social Studies III-World Studies Interdisciplinary Approach I. Objectives

A Semi-detailed Lesson Plan in Social Studies III- World Studies
Interdisciplinary Approach
I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
a. Recognize factors that give birth to Indian civilization and describe the
migration of Indo-European group of people;
b. Demonstrate personal views about the influence of India in world
literature, art, religion and society;
c. Perform a 3-minute puppet play showing the interaction of the members of
Indian society.
II. Materials
a. Video presentation downloaded from www.youtube.com
b. LCD projector, laptop, speakers
c. Worksheets of :alphabet letters, questions and answers
d. Handouts
e. Rubrics for puppet presentation
f. Power point presentation
III. Reference
Topic: Indian Civilization
Pagayon, Liza S. (2010). Social studies in perspective. Second ed. Diwa
Learning System Inc. Makati City, Philippines. P. 58-62.
IV. Procedure and Developmental Activities

A. Drill
a. The class will be divided into 5. Each group will receive a table of
alphabet letters. This activity is called as “1-minute Enumeration
test” wherein the group has to enumerate things, concepts, or ideas
related to INDIA in just 1 minute. The group who finished first or
who got the most number of letters to fill will be the winner and
special incentive will be given. This is a speed test for the students.
B. Motivation
a. The teacher will show a 5-minute video presentation about
Harappan civilization (also known as The Indus Valley Civilization )
which has its earliest roots in cultures. The two greatest cities,
Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, emerged circa 2600 BCE along the
Indus River valley in Punjab and Sindh. Video was downloaded
from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCYx-_WqcKc
b. Before the showing of the video, the following questions will be
asked first so that students will be guided in their watching.
i. What body of water contributes to the development of Indian
Civilization? How does it help to the emergence of
civilization?
ii. What are the achievements of ancient people?
iii. How did Harappan Civilization considered as Urban
Civilization?
iv. How did the Harappan and Mohenjo-Daro Civilization
declined?
c. Mentioned questions will be answered by the members of the
group. The teacher will facilitate the sharing activity.
C. Activity
a. Mentioned questions will be answered by the members of the
group. The teacher will facilitate the sharing activity.
b. After the sharing activity, the class will proceed to a new activity
which also support to the factors that bring India into civilization –
that is the migration of Aryans. Each group will receive a text which
describe and narrate the arrival of Aryans in India. [Text is attached
here] They are going to accomplish the table below but before
accomplishing it, explain to the class that each Social Science
disciplines play vital role to support each other in order to provide a
full knowledge and understanding a social science concept.
c. Also, tell them that there are more than 3 social science disciplines
present in the text. From those disciplines they have found out,
each group has to create questions related to each disciplines and
leave it unanswered. Other groups have to answer those questions.
This is the table:
Social Science Question(s) Answer(s)

Disciplines
1.
2.
3.
After writing questions, the teacher will collect it, fold it and
distribute to other groups. Once the group had finished answering,
they will return it to the original owner of the paper.
d. The teacher will process the questioning-and-answering activity by
asking each group to tell one of their questions and let the class
answer it orally. The group has to analyze if their classmates’
answer is correct.
e. For reflective questioning:
i. How was the experience of writing questions? Was it easy to
formulate questions?
ii. How was the experience of answering classmates’
questions? Do the questions support your understanding on
the topic?
f. After the activity, the teacher will present pictures about India’s
contribution to the world literature, art, religion, and society.
Discussion about this will take place.
World literature Art
Religions Society
D. Summary
a. What are the factors that brought about India into civilization?
b. What are the contributions of India to the world literature, art,
religion, and society?
E. Valuing
a. If you were an Indian in today’s time, how will you show or
demonstrate the importance of those contributions? Do you think
those ancient contributions will help to raise India’s economy?
Develop a system of government? How?
F. Application
a. India has a distinct social class structure called the caste system. It
shows social stratification and somewhat bring about attitudes and
behaviors. The final task that each group has to do is performing a
3-minute puppet show about ancient India’s social structure. Each
group has to create a short story showing the interaction of people
between each class. The puppet show will be graded based on the
given rubric. [rubric is attached here]
b. After the activity, the following question will be asked:
i. Why do you think there’s a need to have class system in a
society?
V. Evaluation
Direction: Unscramble the letters to form the correct word. Write your
answer on the blank space. (Note: Hints are given inside the box below.)
1. TIONCARREINA REINCARNATION
2. ETSAC MTYESS CASTE SYSTEM
3. RBHANIMS BRAHMINS
4. AMRDHA DHARMA
5. ASDVE VEDAS
1. The rebirth of a soul in a new human body.

2. A social structure in India into which certain groups of people have
been born and which is often believed the result of reincarnation
3. Group of priests, scholars, and intelligent men
4. Moral obligation bestowed upon someone from birth
5. The sacred book of hymns
VI. Assignment
a. Research more on different civilizations emerged in the world
during ancient times.

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