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India’s Nobel Laureates Research Lesson
By Natasha Cooper
Inquiry Questions:
How have Indians made significant contributions in the world?
Who are the Nobel Prize winners from India and what are their achievements?
Objective:
Students will understand the Nobel Prize winners from India, where they are from, and their significant accomplishments.
Standards:
Standard 3: How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on the earth’s surface.
Standard 17: How to apply geography to interpret the past.
Standard 18: How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future.
Theme: Place
Multiple Intelligences:
Verbal/Linguistic
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Materials:
1. India Map – You may print out a blank map at http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxindia.htm
2. Organizer research paper
Lesson/Activity:
2 class periods
Day one
Pass out research papers and assign expert groups (number by five and each number gets one person on the paper to research). They are to plot where that person is from in India. Those students work independently and then the last five minutes of class they can compare with the other students who had that same person.
Day two
Students should get in their home teams. In these teams, each person has a different person. They can copy and teach the members in their home team about the other Nobel winners from India. The last 5-10 minutes the teacher discusses the lesson and pulls all the information together.
Assessment:
Research organizer and map locations are complete.
India and Nobel Laureates Name: ______________________________
What is the Nobel Prize? What six subject areas are awarded a Nobel Prize?
Growing Up / Family Life
Accomplishments and Achievements
Why did they win the Nobel Prize?
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Mother Theresa
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
Amartya Sen
H. Gobind Khorana
