Students work in groups to research specific decades and then create multi-tiered timelines representing Indian and Pakistani relations and politics during those decades. Review the Academic Content Standards related to this lesson. Express their ideas about why countries might come into conflict with other countries and ways in which those conflicts can be resolved. Investigate the leaders and relationship between India and Pakistan, disputes over Kashmir, and steps toward peace during different decades in the 20th century since the Indian subcontinent gained independence from British rule. Create multi-tiered timelines of Indian and Pakistani relations and politics during different decades of the 20th century.
Students then share their answers.
Next, look at a detailed map of the Indian subcontinent on a map, and have students find India, Pakistan and Kashmir. As you read the article, ask students to try to figure out, with facts from each paragraph, why India and Pakistan are fighting over Kashmir. Write the facts and students' ideas on the board as you read the article. Then, tell each group that they will be conducting basic research on India and Pakistan in the assigned decade. Using their research, each group of student creates a multi-tiered timeline of their decade on a piece of poster board.