Queen of Katwe Product Description
Like Stars on Earth (Original title: Taare Zameen Par) offers a wonderful opportunity to teach students about India, Bollywood films, and the Hindu festival Diwali. Our teaching guide features lessons across the curriculum, including Social Studies, Math,, Science, and Visual Arts.
Film runtime: 2 hours and 44 minutes.
Teaching Tip: This film is long for many educational settings. We recommend showing it for a special schedule day, like end of the year celebrations. Educators can also break the film into a few days of instruction because of the rich educational offerings that go with it. Plus students truly love it. It is a film full of joy!
Film rating: PG. Common Sense Media rating: 13+.
Instruction level: for grades 5-8.
Where to watch: This movie can be hard to find on streaming services in some regions but you can buy the DVD.
Like Stars on Earth Curriculum Guide
Lesson 1: The People and Land of India (Social Studies)
Lesson 2: The Elements of Film (Media Literacy)
Lesson 3: Making Beauty Out of Nonsense (Language Arts , Visual Literacy)
Lesson 4: Determining Your Grade (Mathematics)
Lesson 5: How the Brain Works (Science)
Lesson 6: Color and Design Block-Printed Textiles (Visual Arts)
Lesson 7: Diwali-The Festival of Lights (Film-specific Cross-Cultural Understanding)
Lesson 8: The Historical and Social Background of Bollywood (Music History)
Lesson 9: A World of Music (Arts)
Glossary of Film Terms
The Glossary of Film Terms is useful for the Film Literacy lessons that are part of this curriculum guide.
Preview Glossary of Film Terms
Group Discussion Facilitation Guidelines
In this guide, you will find suggestions for leading productive conversations that broaden perspectives, encourage empathy, and build new paradigms for education. It is adaptable, flexible and useful for a variety of learning settings. We recommend pairing it with this film to create safe space for classroom engagement on these themes and subjects.
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Related Resources
Like Stars on Earth is part of our global education collection of award-winning films from around the world for introducing students to global cultures and customs. We also recommend these global education films: Children of Heaven (Iran), Please Vote for Me (China), The Cup (Tibet), The Way Home (South Korea), Wadjda (Saudi Arabia), and Whale Rider (Aotearoa / New Zealand).
Teaching Music Education with film? Get more classroom-ready lessons in our Music Education Collection.
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Journeys in Film supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Learn more about teaching with UN SDGs. This curriculum guide connects to the following SDGs.
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