SOCIAL STUDIES
Course Contents
- An Introduction to History
- The Earliest Societies
- The First Farmers and Herders
- The First Cities
- Different Ways of Life
- Early States
- New Ideas
- The First Empire
- Life in towns and villages
- Contacts with Distant lands
- Political Developments
- Culture and Science
- GEOGRAPHY
- Planet: Earth in the solar system
- Globe: the model of the earth, latitudes and longitudes;motions of the earth rotation and revolution
- Maps: essential components of maps distance,directions and symbols
- Four realms of the earth: lithosphere, hydrosphere,atmosphere and biosphere: continents and oceans.
- Major relief features of the earth.
- India in the world: physiographic divisions of India – mountains, plateaus and plains; climate; natural vegetation and wild life; need for their conservation.
- SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE
- DIVERSITY AND INTERDEPENDENCE
- Government
- Local Government
- Making a Living(Rural Livelihoods & Urban Livelihoods)