The Indus Basin Irrigation System

• READY TO TEACH (LESSON 8/11 - RESOURCES).

This lesson requires the use of the blue AQA Oxford textbook.

Outline the section of the syllabus taught during today’s lesson (slide 2). Using the map shown on slide 3, pupils are requested to describe the Indus drainage system in Pakistan. An example is included on slide 3. Discuss with pupils the importance of the Indus water Treaty. Pupils must cut out the statements, rearranging them in a table format in their book, displayed on slide 5. Recap answers on slide 5, pupils may self-assess their responses.

Pupils are required to use the data shown in the table on slide 6 in order to draw a pie chart showing land use in the Indus valley. Discuss other benefits linked to the IBIS project. An extension task is included on slide 7 for any pupil who completes the pie chart. You may wish to write the extension task on another whiteboard in the classroom, if the data on slide 7 is still needed by pupils completing the pie chart task. As a homework task, pupils are expected to use the information collated today about the IBIS project in order to answer the GCSE question about a large -scale irrigation scheme.