Lesson 5: India: It’s Different Landforms
Lesson Plan
Suggested time: 8-9 periods (40 mins each)
Content
Objectives
Tools/Materials
Used
Introducing the
Lesson
Methodology
• The Northern Mountains
• The Northern Plains
• The Thar Desert
• The Southern Plateaus
• The Coastal Plains
• The Islands
To enable the students to:
• recognise the major landforms of India
• identify and describe the Himalayan Mountains, the Northern Plains, the
SouthernPlateau, the Thar Desert, the Coastal plains and the Islands
• mark these landforms on a map of India
Timeline 3, physical map of India, a black board and chalk.
Use the Let’s begin… as a warm up to introduce the lesson. Ask the students
to identify the landforms from the picture given and label them.
Teaching the lesson
• Describe the size of India and its population. On a world map show students
the sizeof countries like Russia, China and Canada. Tell them these countries
are larger than India. Then show them India on a map.
• On the physical map of India, show students the various landforms in India.
• Ask students which mountains separate India from China. Explain to them
that the Himalayas are a mountain range.
• Show students pictures of the Himalayan range and Mount Everest. On the
political map you can also show them the states these mountains pass
through. Ask students what they think the climate in such place would be like.
How would the people living here need to dress?
• On the physical map of India point out the rivers that begin in the
Himalayas.
• Explain the term terai. Tell students which states of India lie in the terai
region.
• Explain the term plains. On the political map of India, show the students the
Gangetic plains and ask them to tell you the names of some well-known cities
in the region. Explain why this region is good for agriculture and why it is
thickly populated. Also tell the students about the climate of the region.
• Explain the term deserts. On the physical map of India show the desert
region of India. Use the political map to show the states which lie in the
Lesson 5: India: It’s Different Landforms
Lesson Plan
Suggested time: 8-9 periods (40 mins each)
desert region. Ask students why they think the region is not thickly populated.
Show them pictures of a desertand point out the kind of vegetation that
grows there. Also explain why camels are used in the desert.
• In the Let’s talk… section, discuss in the class what would the children like
our country to have-more plains or deserts?
• Explain the term plateau. Show them the Deccan plateau region on the map
and the rivers that flow through this region. On the political map, point out
the states that come under this region. Tell them about the climate and the
vegetation of this region.
• Tell students what a peninsula is. Show them a map of India. Ask them to
name the water bodies that surround India.
• Ask the students to mark the sentences as true or false in the Think and
answer… section.
• On the physical map of India show students the hilly region that lies to the
east andwest of the Deccan plateau in India. Tell them these are the ghats.
• Explain the term island. On the physical map of India point out the islands
that are a part of India. Show them pictures of the Andaman and Nicobar,
and Lakshadweep islands.
• Explain the term coastal plain. On the physical map of India point out the
Eastern Coastal plain and Western coastal plain.
Let’s answer…
• The teacher can help the students complete Exercises A, B, C, D and E on
pages 32-33orally. The children can then be asked to write the answers on
their own.
Let’s do…
• Project Work
(F.1) The students are required to write a diary entry as asked in the book.
(F.2) The students will collect pictures of each type of landform of our country
and paste these pictures on a chart paper.
(F.3) Ask the students to make a model of the northern mountains or Thar
desert.
•Find Out
(G) The students should be asked to make a list of rivers that originate from
Himalayas and find out which states they flow through.
• Map Work
(H) Ask the students to mark the places given in the book on the physical map
Lesson 5: India: It’s Different Landforms
Lesson Plan
Suggested time: 8-9 periods (40 mins each)
of India.
HOTS
• The HOTS question can be discussed in class.
Life skills…
Ask the students to name the things that he/she will take to a hill station.