Starter quiz
- A small statue or model of a person is called a ...
- granary
- figurine ✓
- mystery
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- Select the possible things that figurines could have been used for.
- washing
- religion ✓
- reading
- toys ✓
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- Historians do not know how to read the writing of the Indus Valley civilisation.
- True ✓
- False
- What evidence tells us that the Indus Valley cities were well organised?
- their religion
- their palaces
- their buildings ✓
- their writing
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- Which things are still a mystery about the Indus Valley civilisation?
- granaries ✓
- bricks
- religion ✓
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- Put the following into the correct order.
- 1⇔People started to farm in the Indus Valley.
- 2⇔People got better at farming.
- 3⇔People began to live together in groups.
- 4⇔People built cities in the Indus Valley.
Exit quiz
- Match the word to the correct definition.
- archaeologists⇔people who dig in the ground for clues about the past ✓
- civilisation⇔a group of people who live together and follow the same ways of life ✓
- What things do archaeologists do?
- make guesses ✓
- dig in the ground ✓
- ask lots of questions ✓
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- When the ______ floods, it makes the land in the Indus Valley fertile.
- 'River Indus' ✓
- Archaeologists can guess lots about the Indus Valley civilisation from objects.
- True ✓
- False
- What would help archaeologists understand more about the Indus Valley civilisation?
- the river
- the Indus writing ✓
- the mountains
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- What do the cities in the Indus Valley tell us about the people who built them almost 5000 years ago?
- They were not very clever.
- They were clever. ✓
- They were good at building. ✓
- They were not good at building.
- They were good at planning. ✓
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Key learning points
- Archaeologists have uncovered all sorts of objects that tell us about the great cities of this farming civilisation.
- Archaeologists have asked lots of questions about the objects to try and work things out about these people.
- From these questions about the objects, they have found out lots of things about these people and their cities.
- However, there are still many mysteries about these people because archaeologists cannot understand their writing.
- A good explanation of what archaeologists think they know about this subject will use knowledge from across this unit.
Common misconception
Pupils may associate making guesses with being wrong.
Reassure pupils that making guesses is necessary to learn new things, and essential in jobs like archaeology. Acknowledge that the guesses are educated and based on drawing information from lots of sources to make conclusions.
Keywords
Archaeologists - people who dig in the ground for clues about people who lived in the past are archaeologists
Civilisation - a group of people who live together and follow the same ways of life and the same set of rules are a civilisation
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