Places hold memories. By studying physical evidence, we can learn how people lived in the past and how societies change over time.
WHERE WE ARE IN PLACE AND TIME
Orientation in Space and Time
Age Group: MYP 2 (12–13 years)
Duration: 4 Days / 3 Nights
Venue: Hampi – UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landscape
Learning Style: Inquiry-based • Observation-led • Experiential • Reflective
Includes: Pre-Tour Learning • On-Tour Exploration • Post-Tour Reflection
This Hampi programme introduces students to history through real places. Students explore ruins, temples, landscapes, and local traditions to understand how people lived during the Vijayanagara period.
Learning focuses on looking closely, asking questions, and recording observations. Students use buildings, artefacts, stories, and geography as evidence to understand change, continuity, and historical importance in a clear and age-appropriate way.
Students develop:
• Research Skills: Careful observation, simple note-taking, evidence recording
• Thinking Skills: Comparison, identifying change and continuity
• Communication Skills: Discussion, journaling, sharing ideas
• Social Skills: Group work and cooperative learning
• Self-Management Skills: Organisation, responsibility, reflection
Students will:
• Explore how places give clues about the past
• Identify changes and similarities over time
• Understand how geography influenced settlement
• Use simple evidence to explain historical ideas
• Connect past societies to present-day life
Students will be able to:
• Describe how people lived during the Vijayanagara period
• Identify changes in buildings, daily life, and trade
• Use observations from sites to explain the past
• Compare past and present lifestyles
• Share learning through drawings, maps, writing, and discussion
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