Academic year:
Units and Topics
| # | Unit/Topic | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Our Past 1 (History) | - |
| 2 | The Earth: Our Habitat (Geography) | - |
| 3 | Social and Political Life - 1 | - |
| Total | - |
Syllabus
1 Our Past 1 (History)
1.01 What, Where, How and When?
1.02 From Hunting–Gathering to Growing Food
1.03 In the Earliest Cities
- Harappa Civilisations
- Discovery of a lost city – Harappa
- Sites in Indian borders
- Houses, Drains and Streets
- Life in the City
- New Crafts in the City
- In Search of Raw Materials
- Food for People in the Cities
- Harappa Towns in Gujarat
- The Mystery of the End
1.04 What Books and Burials Tell Us
- One of the Oldest Books in the World
- How Historians Study the Rigveda
- Cattle, Horses and Chariots
- Words to Describe People
- Silent Sentinels - the Story of the Megaliths
- Finding Out About Social Differences
- Were Some Burial Spots Meant for Certain Families?
- A Special Burial at Inamgaon
- Occupations at Inamgaon
1.05 Kingdoms, Kings and an Early Republic
- How Some Men Became Rulers
- Janapadas
- Mahajanapadas
- Sixteen Mahajanapadas
- Tax
- Why Taxes?
- Changes in Agriculture
- Magadha
- Vajji
1.06 New Questions and Ideas
- The Story of the Buddha
- Upanishads
- Jainism
- Origin of Jainism
- Vardhaman Mahavir (599 BCE to 527 BCE)
- Unique Teachings of Jainism
- Tri-ratna - Samyak Darshan, Samyak Jnan, Samyak Charitra or Three Jewels
- Jain Code of Conduct
- Digambaras and Svetambaras
- Reasons for the Spread of Jainism
- The Pancha Mahavratas - Ahimsa, Satya, Asteya, Aparigraha, Brahmacharya.
- The Sangha
- Monasteries
1.07 Ashoka, the Emperor Who Gave up War
1.08 Vital Villages, Thriving Towns
1.09 Traders, Kings and Pilgrims
1.1 New Empires and Kingdoms
1.11 Buildings, Paintings and Books
2 The Earth: Our Habitat (Geography)
2.1 The Earth in the Solar System
- The Solar System
- Solar System: Sun, Planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Earth, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Neptune, Asteroids, Dwarf Planets, and Moon
- The Sun
- Planets
- The Earth
- The Moon
- Asteroids
- Meteoroids
2.2 Globe : Latitudes and Longitudes
- Globe
- Concept of Latitudes
- Latitudes
- Northern Hemisphere
- Southern Hemisphere
- Important lines of latitude: Torrid Zone, Temperate Zone and Frigid Zone.
- Heat Zones of the Earth
- Torrid Zone
- Temperate Zone
- Frigid Zone
- Concept of Longitudes
- Eastern Hemisphere
- Western Hemisphere
- Longitude and Time
- Standard Time
2.3 Motions of the Earth
2.4 Maps
- Maps
- Physical Maps
- Political Maps
- Thematic Maps
- Map - Distance
- Map - Direction
- Map - Symbols
- Map - Sketch
- Map - Plan
2.5 Major Domains of the Earth
- Lithosphere
- Structure of Lithosphere
- Continents
- Asia
- Europe
- Africa
- North America
- South America
- Australia
- Antarctica
- Hydrosphere
- Layers of Hydrosphere
- Importance of Hydrosphere
- Atmosphere
- The layers of Earth's atmosphere: Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere.
- Composition of air
- Biosphere - the Domain of Life
2.6 Major Landforms of the Earth
- Mountains
fold, residual, and block.
- Plateaus
- Plains
Gangetic Plains and Coastal plains – (Konkan, Kanara, Malabar, Coromandel, Northern Circars).
- Landforms and People
Landforms - impact on the life of people. (comparison between life in the mountains and life in the plains)
2.7 Our Country – India
- Locational Setting
- India's Neighbour
- Political and Administrative Divisions
- Physical Divisions of Europe
- The North Western Highlands
- The Central Plateaus/High land
- The Alpine Mountain system
- The North European plains
2.8 India : Climate, Vegetation and Wildlife
3 Social and Political Life - 1
3.1 Understanding Diversity
3.2 Diversity and Discrimination
- Difference and Prejudice
- Causes for Prejudice
- Stereotypes
- Inequality and Discrimination
- Caste Discrimination
- Gender Discrimination
- Religious Discrimination
- Socio-Economic Inequality
- Remedial Measures for Abolishing Inequality and Discrimination
- Constitution of India and Equality
- On Being Discriminated Against
- Striving for Equality
3.3 What is Government?
3.4 Key Elements of a Democratic Government
3.5 Panchayati Raj
- Gram Sabha
- Gram Panchayat
- Nyaya Panchayat
- The Gram Panchayat
- Sarpanch
- Gram Sevak
- Gram Sabha
- Women’s participation in the Gram Sabha
- The source of revenue of the Gram Panchayat
- Three Levels of Panchayats
3.6 Rural Administration
3.7 Urban Administration
3.8 Rural Livelihoods
3.9 Urban Livelihoods
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