Ancient India Vocabulary Cards

Words included:

Monsoon

Plateau

Subcontinent

Citadel

Granary

Indus Valley Civilization

Caste

Hinduism

Buddhism

Sanskrit

Pilgrimage

Enlightenment

Edict

Mauryan Empire

Gupta Empire

Vocabulary Sort Ideas:

-Match definition to word/picture

-Memory Game: Turn the all upside down, pick up two cards and if the word a definition matches, you keep it!

-Open Sort: students sort the words and definitions in any way they choose and explain to their partner

-Parts of Speech: When they are done sorting, they can write the words into sentences

-People, places, things (or ideas)

-Connect to past topics: Sort into words they can make a connection with and words that are brand new to them