Ideas for classroom activities from workshop.

INDUS VALLEY WEB RESOURCES

Harappa.com is the best source of images and information on the Indus Valley: http://www.harappa.com/

Image index -- for Harappa it just lists the 90 slides from Harappa.com, but it also has useful links to later Indian images: http://eawc.evansville.edu/pictures/inpage.htm

SPIRO at U. C. Berkeley (the "ancient orient" collection includes a lot of site slides from the Indus Valley) http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/browse_spiro_form.html

Exploring Ancient World Cultures (University of Evansville, IN) has a chronology and links to images for the Indus Valley. They draw most of their material from Harappa.com.
http://eawc.evansville.edu/chronology/extract.cgi?place=in

Ancientscripts.com, a very thorough web site on the development of languages and their written forms has a good page on the Indus script.
http://www.ancientscripts.com/indus.html

RELIGION

A brief summary of the theories regarding the Archetypal Mother in Harappan Religion:  http://www.picatype.com/dig/dc/dc0aa02.htm

University of Pittsburg Asian Art course has images with notes on the terra cotta female figure and "Shiva Seal"
http://www.pitt.edu/~asian/week-1/week-1.html

BACKGROUND

Internet Indian History Sourcebook is a good place to go for general background on the history of  Indian religions and culture http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html

Harappa Digest: The Lifestyle Magazine, established 2700 B.C.
http://www.itihaas.com/ancient/harappa1.html

SCHOOL SITES

The popular Mr Don's site has an ancient India page: http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Indialife.html

This WideHorizon Education Resources unit on the Indus Valley uses the Harappa.com web site. It is based on a Waldorf approach. http://members.aol.com/WERedu/PlanIndia.html

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