1 ✨ Spark
Why are houses in Kerala's backwaters, the snowy hills and the Rajasthan desert so different?
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2 🧊 3D Explore
Turn the scene, tap the objects and answer. Easy, Medium and Challenge are the three checkpoints.
🌱 Home and school
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3 📖 Explain
People build houses that suit the weather and the place: sloping roofs where it rains or snows a lot, thick mud walls where it is very hot, houseboats on water and stilt houses where floods come.
A pucca house is made of bricks and cement; a kutcha house of mud, straw and bamboo. At home and at school we stay safe by keeping floors dry, not playing with fire or switches, and following rules.
In Assam, houses stand on bamboo stilts above flood water; in Ladakh, thick stone walls keep out the cold; in Kerala, houseboats float on the backwaters.
✗ Everyone in India lives in the same kind of house.
✓ Houses change with the weather, the land and the materials people have nearby.
📒 Glossary
- pucca house
- a strong house of bricks and cement
- kutcha house
- a house of mud, straw or bamboo
- stilts
- tall poles that lift a house above water
4 ✍️ Practice
Play Medium and Challenge in the 3D scene. The bars show how many you got right the first time.
My mastery (right first time / played)
- Easy0 / 0
- Medium0 / 0
- Challenge0 / 0
5 🏡 Real-life task
Try this at home or at school, then check the suggested answer.
Scenario Your family is moving to a place with heavy rain. What kind of roof should your new house have and why?
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A sloping roof, so rainwater runs off quickly instead of collecting and leaking into the house.
Make a model house from a cardboard box or clay that suits your area's weather. Draw a safety map of your classroom: exits, the first-aid box and the water corner.
6 💭 Reflect
Think, then answer in your own words. Your notes stay on this device.
Observation In the 3D scene, look at the different houses. Which one suits a place where floods come?
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The house on stilts: its floor stays above the water when the river floods.
Explain / create Design a safe classroom poster with a friend and explain two rules.
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For example: "Walk, don't run in corridors" so no one falls, and "Keep bags under the desk" so no one trips.