India's Partition????

HI McCalla Hill ! Do you think this article might work? https://www.oerproject.com/OER-Materials/OER-Media/PDFs/1750/Unit8/Political-Decolonization-c1947-1997

THose are going to a 404 error page for me?

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Let's try this! Here's a PDF of the article. If you want to access it online, searching for "Political Decolonization" should (hopefully) do the trick 

McCalla Hill I used this from New Visions.  It was "short and sweet.!"  Here is the Partition specific part.  Here is another one that I have used.  It is a mixture of materials.  We only spend one day on India in Unit 8.

Janet Mann these are excellent resources to include in our courses. Though the scope of Big History does not give me time to go in depth with this content, I can use it in other courses where these colonial conflicts are thoroughly covered. In fact, I saved the first to complement my teachings in AP Human Geography political boundaries.

Laura Massa Yea!  So glad the resources are useful!! Maybe my post on Hexagonal Thinking could be helpful!

Definitely Janet Mann  Exagonal thinking will be a great way to make multiple connections, but more importantly, explaining those connections and supporting claims with evidence. Thank you for the reminder!

Those resources are very helpful, Janet. Thanks for sharing!

Hi McCalla Hill great question, and definitely a topic that's so important to include in any study of the 20th century. I use this video as an intro which does spend a fair amount of time on decolonization in India.  Then I'll use the reading that Anne Koschmider posted. I wrap things up with a quick sourcing activity to get my students ready for an upcoming mini-DBQ. This is the doc set that I use during decolonization.

My quick source is limited to a post-it note / index card activity. At this point in the class, the students need to be efficient in their analysis, so I do limit the physical space they have to write to encourage that. These are all lessons that I've done in the past and will complete this week -- pictures of student work coming soon. :)

There have been some solid resources shared here. I don't know that I have anything to add other than the fact that your post brough up a fond memory. Yearssssss ago when I taught 4th grade, we would read the young reader's edition of Three Cups of Tea (this was before all of the disappointing and controversial news about Greg Mortenson came out). As part of this, we would cover geography, do an introduction to Islamic religion, and discuss the Kashmir region. One of the activities we had students do was attempt to write a treaty regarding the Kashmir region. I have such positive memories of that whole reading unit because it was interdisciplinary and engaging for students.