Lesson 15: Our Industries
Lesson Plan
Suggested time: 5-6 periods (40 mins each)
Content
Objectives
Tools/Materials
Used
Introducing the
Lesson
Methodology
• Different kinds of industries
• Location of industries
• Importance of industries
• Industries and pollution
To enable students to:
• distinguish between raw materials and finished goods
• define an industry
• recognise the three types of industry—cottage, small-scale and large-scale
industry
• location of industries in India
• understand the importance of industries
• comprehend the relation between industries and pollution
Timeline 4, physical map of India showing the location of industries, pictures
of small-scale industries and large-scale industries, chalk and blackboard
Use the Let’s begin… as a warm up to introduce the lesson. Ask the students
to match the products with the raw materials they are made from.
Teaching the lesson
• Explain the meaning of industry
• Explain the classification of industries into cottage, small-scale and largescale industries. Explain each of the industries and things they manufacture.
• Ask the students to write true or false in the Think and answer… section.
• Give to the students an account of where various industries like iron and
steel, cotton textile mills, ship building industries, etc. are located.
• On the atlas, locate the places where the major industries are located.
• Describe the importance of industries.
• Establish the fact that industries cause different type of pollution.
Let’s answer…
• The teacher can help the students complete Exercises A, B, C, D and E on
pages 109-110 orally. The children can then be asked to write the answers on
their own.
Let’s do…
• Field Trip (F) Arrange field trips to small scale industries located near the
school. You can divide the students into groups and ask them to make a
report on this trip. Also ask them to find out from the manager of the factory,
the information given in the book.
• Project Work (G) The students are required to make a list of the things they
see around them. Ask them to find out how those things are manufactured
Lesson 15: Our Industries
Lesson Plan
Suggested time: 5-6 periods (40 mins each)
and what are the raw materials used to make them. They are required to
collect pictures and paste them in their scrapbook.
Life skills…
Ask the students to answer the given question.