Question

• What kinds of pots have you seen around you?

• Try to find out from your grandparents about the other kinds of pots and pans they used in their time?

• Have you ever been to some museum or heard about it? What all things are there in a museum?

Answer 1

• I have seen several kinds of pots. These are:

Clay pots beautifully painted in brick red in colour that are used to keep drinking water cool

Copper (tamba) pots that are reddish brown in colour

Bronze (peetal) pots that are medium brown in colour

Brass (kansa) pots that are golden yellow in colour

Aluminium pots that are silvery in colour

Iron pots that are greyish in colour

Disclaimer: This question has to be answered based upon one’s own experience. Hence, the same can vary from one student to another.

• Disclaimer: The purpose of this question is to make the students interact actively with the world around them. The process calls for critical observance based upon which the students can draw certain conclusions. Considering the sustenance of this process of interaction the answer to this question has not been provided.

• Museums are the places where we can see very old things being preserved with great care. By seeing these things we can know about our past very well. These excavated things may be pots, jewellery and utensils used by the people of those times for eating and cooking the food. The weapons used by the warriors in the past and some pieces of art such as painting, stone carving could also be seen in the museum.