ICSE Class 6 — Certification Brochure

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ICSE Class 6

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Curriculum

Arts Education

8 chapters · 67 classes

• Form — 11 classes

› Objects and Still Life — part 1

› Objects and Still Life — part 2

› Objects and Still Life — part 3

› Objects and Still Life — part 4

› PANCHATANTRA — part 4

› PANCHATANTRA — part 5

› PEOPLE IN ACTION — part 1

› Lines and Shapes in Nature and in Man-made Objects

› Size Words in Art: Small, Big, Tall, Huge and Tiny

› Making 2-D Forms with Paper, Pencil and Paint

› Making 3-D Forms with Clay, Cardboard and Found Materials

• Colour — 12 classes

› PEEPING OUT OF THE WINDOW — part 2

› PEEPING OUT OF THE WINDOW — part 3

› Changing the Typical Picture — part 1

› Changing the Typical Picture — part 2

› Changing the Typical Picture — part 3

› Nature’s Palette — part 1

› Nature’s Palette — part 2

› Nature’s Palette — part 4

› Spotting Colours in Nature: Leaf Green, Sea Blue and Sky Blue

› Colours of Fruits, Flowers and Plants: Lemon Yellow, Bottle Green and More

› Primary, Secondary and Warm and Cool Colours

› Mixing Colours to Make Light and Dark Shades

• Texture — 7 classes

› TEXTURES IN NATURE — part 1

› TEXTURES IN NATURE — part 2

› Rough and Smooth, Soft and Hard: Feeling Textures Around Us

› Textures of Fur, Feathers, Wool, Sand and Fabric

› Making Rubbings of Bark, Leaves and Coins

› Showing Texture in a Drawing Using Dots, Lines and Patterns

› Collage with Textured Materials

• Composition — 9 classes

› PANCHATANTRA — part 2

› Bansuri — chapter 1 — part 4

› Activity 15.1: Positive and Negative Space in Simple Icons

› PANCHATANTRA — part 3

› What Composition Means: Placing Colours and Forms Together

› Composing a Landscape: Foreground, Middle Ground and Background

› Composing a Seascape and a Cityscape

› Balance in a Picture: Arranging Objects on a Page

› Arranging Forms in 3-D: A Table-top Composition

• Tools & Techniques — 9 classes

› Assessment — part 2

› ARTS OF THE PEOPLE, WITH THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE — part 2

› ARTS OF THE PEOPLE, WITH THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE — part 3

› Make a Silhouette, and Two Shading Techniques: Cross-Hatching and Stippling

› Create Stencils from Objects: The Six Printed Steps

› Drawing Tools: Pencils, Charcoal, Crayons and Pastels

› Painting Tools and Mediums: Brushes, Poster Colours and Watercolours

› Printing Techniques: Block Printing and Thumb Printing

› Choosing the Right Tool and Material for the Technique

• Art (Visual Arts) Vocabulary — 7 classes

› Kriti — chapter 15 — part 1

› Kriti — chapter 15 — part 2

› Words for Art Techniques: Sketching, Shading, Printing and Collage

› Hues, Shades and Tints: Talking About Colour

› Names of Tools and Accessories Used in Art

› Mediums and Materials: Naming What an Artwork Is Made Of

› Using Art Words When We Describe a Work of Art

• Responding to the Artefacts and Nature — 5 classes

› LOOK AROUND — part 2

› Looking Closely at the Beauty of Nature

› Looking at Artefacts: Pots, Fabrics, Toys and Tools

› Responding to What We See: Sketching, Describing and Discussing

› Sharing Our Responses with Others: Talking and Listening About Art

• Perspective — 7 classes

› PEOPLE IN PLACES — part 1

› PEOPLE IN PLACES — part 2

› Activity 15.2: One Object, Four Ways - Contour, Silhouette, Shading and Icon

› What Perspective Means: How Objects Appear to Our Eyes

› Near Objects Look Big and Far Objects Look Small

› The Horizon Line and Vanishing Point

› Drawing a Road, a Railway Track or a Building in Perspective

Biology

5 chapters · 59 classes

• Plant Life — 14 classes

› Diversity in the Living World — part 1

› Diversity in the Living World — part 2

› Diversity in the Living World — part 3

› Diversity in the Living World — part 4

› Diversity in the Living World — part 5

› Diversity in the Living World — part 6

› Diversity in the Living World — part 11

› Diversity in the Living World — part 12

› Activity 10.4: Watching a Bean Plant for Three Months

› The Life Cycle of a Bean Plant

› Activity 10.3: Setting Up Three Beakers

› Herbs, Shrubs and Trees: How to Tell Them Apart

› Roots, Stems and Leaves: What Each Part Does

› Flowers, Fruits and Seeds: How Plants Make New Plants

• The Cell — 11 classes

› The Lens, the Microscope, and Activity 2.1: A Flask of Water

› Robert Hooke's Micrographia, Leeuwenhoek, and the Word 'Cell'

› Activity 2.2: Making an Onion Peel Slide, Step by Step

› Activity 2.3: Your Own Cheek Cells, and the Three Parts of a Cell

› What Each Part of a Cell Does, and 2.1.1 Variation in Shape and Structure

› 2.2 Levels of Organisation: Cell, Tissue, Organ, Organ System, Organism

› Growing Spirulina in a Tank, and 2.5 Why the Cell Is the Basic Unit of Life

› What Makes a Bacterial Cell Different: The Nucleoid, and the Snapshots Begin

› Keep the Curiosity Alive: Label the Cell, and Aanandi's Two Test Tubes (Fig. 2.14)

› Plant Cells and Animal Cells Compared

› Unicellular and Multicellular Organisms

• Human Body — 13 classes

› What Animals Eat, and the Alimentary Canal (Fig. 9.1)

› Why Chapati Turns Sweet: Saliva, Oral Hygiene, and Activity 9.1 (Table 9.1)

› What the Iodine Showed, and How Food Moves Down the Food Pipe (Fig. 9.2)

› Inside the Stomach (Fig. 9.3), Alexis St. Martin, and the Six-Metre Small Intestine (Fig. 9.4)

› The Pancreas, Absorption, and the Finger-like Projections (Fig. 9.5)

› The Large Intestine, Egestion, the Bacteria That Help, and the Charaka Samhita

› 9.2.1 Respiration in Humans: The Path Air Takes (Fig. 9.8)

› Activity 9.2: A Working Model of Breathing (Fig. 9.9), and the Mechanism (Fig. 9.10)

› Gas Exchange in the Alveoli (Fig. 9.12), and the Word Equation of Respiration (Fig. 9.13)

› The Circulatory System, Smoking, and 9.2.2 How Fish Breathe (Fig. 9.14)

› The Heart, Blood and Blood Vessels

› The Excretory System and How the Body Removes Waste

› The Nervous System and the Skeletal System in Brief

• Health and Hygiene — 14 classes

› Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy Body — part 4

› Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy Body — part 5

› Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy Body — part 8

› Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy Body — part 10

› Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy Body — part 11

› 3.1 Health Is More Than Not Falling Sick: Activity 3.1, the WHO Definition, and Fig. 3.1

› 3.2 How Can We Stay Healthy? Activity 3.2: Listing Good Habits and Bad Ones

› 3.2.1 Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle: the Seven Rules and Fig. 3.2

› 3.2.2 Keep the Environment Clean: Activity 3.3, the Two Playgrounds of Fig. 3.3, and the AQI

› 3.3 Signs and Symptoms, and 3.4 What a Disease Is and the Two Types

› 3.4.1 How Communicable Diseases Spread, Fig. 3.4, and What a Vector Is

› Iron and Vitamin B12, Dorothy Hodgkin, and 6.4.2 Personal Hygiene (Fig. 6.1)

› A Balanced Diet and the Nutrients in It

› Public Sanitation: Clean Water, Drains and Waste Disposal

• Adaptation — 7 classes

› Diversity in the Living World — part 7

› Diversity in the Living World — part 8

› Diversity in the Living World — part 9

› Diversity in the Living World — part 10

› Why Living Things Need Adaptations

› Adaptations of Desert Plants and Animals

› Adaptations of Water, Mountain and Polar Organisms

Chemistry

5 chapters · 47 classes

• Introduction to Chemistry — 4 classes

› Chemistry All Around Us: Everyday Uses

› Chemicals in Food and Medicines

› Chemicals in Cosmetics, Textiles and Cleansing Agents

› Chemicals in Agriculture and Industry

• Elements, Compounds and Mixtures — 10 classes

› Nature of Matter : and Mixtures — part 1

› Nature of Matter : and Mixtures — part 2

› Nature of Matter : and Mixtures — part 3

› Nature of Matter : and Mixtures — part 4

› Nature of Matter : and Mixtures — part 5

› Nature of Matter : and Mixtures — part 6

› Nature of Matter : and Mixtures — part 7

› Nature of Matter : and Mixtures — part 8

› Materials Around Us — part 7

› Methods of Separation in Everyday Life — part 7

• Matter — 17 classes

› 7.2 Interparticle Attractions, and Acharya Kanad's Parmanu

› 7.2.1 The Solid State: Activity 7.3 (Fig. 7.3) and the Melting Pictures of Fig. 7.4

› What a Melting Point Is, the Odd Case of Ice, and Table 7.1

› 7.2.2 The Liquid State: Activity 7.4 and the Three Containers of Fig. 7.5

› A Finger Through Water (Fig. 7.6), the Boiling Point, and Why Spilled Water Disappears

› 7.2.3 The Gaseous State: Activity 7.5 and the Two Gas Jars of Fig. 7.7

› Why Gases Fill Everything: the Iodine Version (Fig. 7.8), and What a Fluid Is

› 7.3 Activity 7.6: The Syringe (Fig. 7.9), and Why Water Will Not Compress

› Thermal Energy Decides the State, and the 'Let Us Wrap Up!' Table

› Snapshots, and Keep the Curiosity Alive: Questions 1 and 2(i) to 2(iv)

› Activity 5.1 and Table 5.1: Eleven Everyday Changes, and the Senses That Notice Them

› 5.1 Physical Change: Activity 5.2 with Paper, a Balloon and Chalk (Fig. 5.1)

› 5.2 Chemical Change: Activity 5.3, Blowing into Tap Water and Lime Water (Fig. 5.2)

› The Chemical Equation, and Activity 5.4: Vinegar and Baking Soda (Fig. 5.3)

› 5.3.1 Rusting and 5.3.2 Combustion: Activity 5.5 and the Covered Candle (Figs. 5.4, 5.5, 5.6)

› Keep the Curiosity Alive: The Camphor, the Chair With No Particles, and the Candle of Fig. 7.16

› Matter Expands on Heating and Contracts on Cooling

• Water — 10 classes

› Nature’s Treasures — part 3

› A Journey through States of Water — part 8

› Activity 7.7: Three Water Levels A, B and C (Fig. 7.10), and Where the Sugar Sits (Fig. 7.11)

› Why Sand Does Not Dissolve, the Empty Gaps of Fig. 7.12, and What 'Particle' Can Mean

› A Journey through States of Water — part 1

› A Journey through States of Water — part 5

› The Chashni Puzzle, and Activity 9.1: How Much Salt Will Water Take?

› Nature’s Treasures — part 2

› Why Water Is Called the Universal Solvent

› Water Scarcity: Using Water Wisely and Keeping Water Resources Clean

• Air and Atmosphere — 6 classes

› Pollution, and the Agreements from Montreal 1987 to Paris 2015

› 13.3.2 The Right Size for an Atmosphere, the Ozone Layer, and Mangalyaan

› Why a Dam Is Broader at Its Base (Fig. 6.8), and 6.2 the Atmosphere Above Us

› 3.2.2 Keep the Environment Clean: Activity 3.3, the Two Playgrounds of Fig. 3.3, and the AQI

› What Air Is Made Of: Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide and Other Gases

› Why Air Is Essential for Life

Computer Studies

8 chapters · 63 classes

• Categories of Computers and Computer Languages — 7 classes

› Generations of Computers: First to Fifth

› Types of Computers: Analog, Digital and Hybrid

› Computers by Purpose: General Purpose and Special Purpose

› Computers by Size, Speed and Price: Micro, Mini, Mainframe and Super

› Why We Need Computer Languages

› Machine Language and Assembly Language

› High-Level Languages, Compilers and Interpreters

• File Management – Organisation of Data — 6 classes

› File Formats and Extensions

› Creating, Naming and Saving Files and Folders

› Copying, Moving, Renaming and Deleting Files

› Searching and Sorting Files

› Compressing and Extracting Files

› Organising and Backing Up Data

• Word Processor - Tabular Presentation — 6 classes

› Inserting and Drawing a Table

› Entering and Editing Data in Cells

› Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns

› Merging and Splitting Cells

› Borders, Shading and Alignment of a Table

› Sorting Table Data and Making a Complex Table

• Word Processor – Mail Merge — 6 classes

› What Mail Merge Is and Where It Is Used

› Creating the Main Document for a Merge

› Creating the Data Source

› Inserting Merge Fields and Previewing the Letters

› Completing the Merge and Printing

› Making Address Labels with Mail Merge

• Presentation – Visual Effects — 7 classes

› Slide Transitions

› Animating Text and Objects

› Setting the Order and Timing of Animations

› Adding Sound and Music to Slides

› Inserting Pictures and Video

› Hyperlinks and Action Buttons

› Rehearsing and Running a Slide Show

• Scratch Programming – Introduction to Game Creation — 13 classes

› 1.4 Learn to Use Motion and Control Blocks

› 1.5 Incorporate Sound and Visual Effects in Your Project

› 3.5 Design Animated Characters with Costumes in Scratch

› 4.4 Add Sound Effects to Your Animation

› 4.3 Animate Your Sprite with Motion Blocks

› 3.6 Combine Loops and Conditions to Enhance Projects

› 1.3 Create Your First Scratch Project

› 3.2 Create Basic Repeat Loops with Scratch Blocks

› 2.1 Explore Sprites: Understanding the Character of Scratch

› Looks Blocks: Say, Think, Size and Colour Effects

› Pen Blocks: Drawing Shapes and Patterns

› Backdrops and Switching Scenes

› Building a Simple Game with a Score and a Win Message

• HTML - An Introduction — 8 classes

› What HTML Is: Tags and Page Structure

› Your First Web Page: html, head, title and body

› Headings, Paragraphs and Line Breaks

› Formatting Text: Bold, Italic and Underline

› Ordered and Unordered Lists

› Adding Images to a Web Page

› Links between Web Pages

› Colours and Backgrounds in HTML

• Internet – Online Surfing — 10 classes

› 1.4 Explain the Concept of the Internet and Its Purpose

› 1.5 Navigate the Internet Safely and Effectively

› 3.1 Explore the Basics of Email Communication

› 3.2 Create and Manage Your Email Account

› 3.3 Understand Email Etiquette and Professional Language

› 3.5 Practice Writing Effective Emails for Different Purposes

› E-commerce: Shopping and Paying Online Safely

› Blogging: Sharing Ideas on the Web

› Podcasting: Listening to and Creating Audio Shows

› Cloud Storage: Storing and Sharing Files with Google Drive

English

5 chapters · 54 classes

• Listening and Speaking — 10 classes

› Personification, and Listening to Peepal Baba

› Listening to Paro, and Speaking as a Bird

› The Wonder Herb, and the Spice Headband

› The Transcripts: Peepal Baba, Paro and Tulsi

› Listening to the Friday Announcement

› A Girl, Her Grandfather, and Speaking Your Yoga Thoughts

› The Transcripts: The Friday Announcement and the Grandfather

› Role-Play, Playtime, and Indigenous Games

› Listening to Ajay and Dhiraj, and Speaking as Friends

› Listening: The Leopard and the Cow

• Reading — 7 classes

› Why We Read: Reading for Pleasure and for Information

› Skimming and Scanning to Find What You Need

› Intensive Reading: Reading Closely and Understanding Details

› Reading Stories: Plot, Characters and Setting

› Reading Poems: Words, Sounds and Pictures in the Mind

› Reading Non-Fiction: Facts, Opinions and Main Ideas

› Sharing Your Views on What You Have Read

• Writing — 14 classes

› Glass Bangles — part 6

› Let us write and Let us explore I: A Descriptive Paragraph, and Louis Braille's Code of Raised Dots

› Let us write and Let us explore I to III: The Letter to Your Cousin, and Weaving a Spider Web

› Let Us Write: A Letter of Complaint About the Kutcha Road

› Let Us Write: A Diary Entry; Let Us Explore: Prithvi-Sukta and the Motherland

› Let Us Write: A Notice; Let Us Explore: Amrit Udyan and a Herbarium

› Let us write: A Notice about the Annual Health Check-up

› Let Us Write: Reading 'My Life as EcoFlash', and the Eight-Point Checklist

› Write Your Own Imaginative Essay; Let Us Explore: P.C. Sorcar, Four Riddles, and a Magical Object

› Let Us Write: Reading and Building a Narrative Essay

› Let Us Write: Reading the Sample Report

› Let Us Write: Your Own Report; Let Us Explore: Illusions, a Word Game, an Encyclopedia and a Thesaurus

› Let Us Write: A Letter of Enquiry About a Memorial Visit

› Rising Intonation, and Let us write: Turning the Play into a Short Story

• Grammar and Vocabulary in Context — 17 classes

› Gilli Danda — part 2

› Mrs Brown Reads the Words Literally, and 'Under the Fifth Word'

› Let Us Learn: Relative Words, and Combining Two Sentences into One

› Let Us Learn: Direct Speech into Reported Speech

› Let Us Learn: Seven Interjections, and What Each One Means

› Let Us Learn: Six Expressions, Five Synonyms, and Eight Binomials

› Let Us Learn: Participles and Gerunds, and How to Tell Them Apart

› Let Us Learn: Four Battle Expressions, and the Collective Nouns of the Forces

› Let Us Learn: Verbs Beginning 'Over-', and the Nouns and Verbs that Differ by One Letter

› Let Us Learn: Subject-Verb Agreement, and Correcting the Parade Passage

› Let Us Learn: Synonyms, Six Expressions, Words Inside Words, and Antakshari

› Let Us Learn: The Two Dashes, the Three Contractions, Prepositional Phrases and Word Order

› Nobody's Friend — part 4

› The Tinkling Bells — part 3

› Nouns, Pronouns and Adjectives in Context

› Verbs and Tenses in Context

› Adverbs, Prepositions and Conjunctions in Context

• English Literature - Suggested Reading List — 6 classes

› How to Choose a Book You Will Enjoy

› Reading Adventure and Fantasy Stories

› Reading Stories About Animals and Nature

› Reading Biographies and True Accounts

› Reading Poetry Collections for Young Readers

› Keeping a Reading Journal

Geography

6 chapters · 57 classes

• Representation of Geographical Features — 10 classes

› Locating Places on the Earth — part 3

› Locating Places on the Earth — part 4

› Locating Places on the Earth — part 5

› Locating Places on the Earth — part 6

› Locating Places on the Earth — part 7

› Maps as Tools of Geography and Their Types

› Scale on a Map: Statement, Representative Fraction and Line Scale

› Directions on a Map

› Map Symbols and Colours

› Sketches and Diagrams of Geographical Features

• Landforms — 9 classes

› Landforms and Life — part 1

› Landforms and Life — part 2

› Landforms and Life — part 4

› Landforms and Life — part 5

› Landforms and Life — part 6

› Forces That Shape the Land: Internal and External

› Mountains and Valleys: How They Form

› Plateaus and Plains: How They Form

› Locating Major Landforms on the World Map

• Water Bodies — 12 classes

› Oceans and Continents — part 1

› Oceans and Continents — part 2

› Oceans and Continents — part 3

› Oceans and Continents — part 5

› The blue of the Blue Planet: the oceans

› Oceans, ocean currents and ocean trenches

› Smaller water bodies and waterways

› The continents: variety on land

› Seas, Rivers and Lakes: Types of Water Bodies

› Major Rivers and Lakes of the World

› Locating Water Bodies on the World Map

› Water Pollution: Causes and Prevention

• Agriculture — 13 classes

› India's Agricultural Landscape: What 'Agriculture and Allied Activities' Covers, and Who Actually Farms

› Climate, Seasons and Crops: Xuanzang's Observation, Seven Climates, 15 Agroclimatic Zones and Fig. 1.4

› Reading Fig. 1.5: The Kharif, Rabi and Zaid Calendar, with Fig. 1.6's Mustard and Fig. 1.7's Pearl Millet

› Soil, the Foundation of Cultivation: Fig. 1.8's Four Stages, the Six Soils of India, and Soil–Crop Linkages

› Two Maps Side by Side: Fig. 1.9, the Soil Map of India, and Fig. 1.10, the Crops Each Soil Carries

› Nurturing the Soil: Crop Rotation, Contour Ploughing and Panchagavya against Terracing and Precise Fertiliser

› Water: Rain-Fed Farming, Fig. 1.11's Banana Bunds, Fig. 1.12's Drone and Fig. 1.13's Munsar Lake

› From Phad Canals and Fig. 1.14's Bamboo Pipes to Fig. 1.15's Drip and Fig. 1.16's Sprinklers — and Then Seeds

› Traditional Systems and the Green Revolution: Fig. 1.17's Terraces, Kulāgar, Gokṛiṣhi, Fig. 1.18 and Fig. 1.19

› Farming Practices of the World: Subsistence and Commercial

› Major Crops of the World: Rice, Wheat and Maize

› Plantation Crops and Fibre Crops: Tea, Coffee, Rubber and Cotton

› Geographical Factors Affecting Crop Growth and Distribution

• Minerals — 4 classes

› Minerals and Ores: Meaning and Kinds

› How Minerals Are Mined

› Distribution of Minerals in the World

› Why Minerals Must Be Conserved

• Study of Continents: North America and South America — 9 classes

› South America

› North America

› Oceans and Continents — part 4

› North America: Location, Landforms and Rivers

› North America: Climate, Vegetation and People

› A Case Study from North America

› South America: Location, Landforms and Rivers

› South America: Climate, Vegetation and People

› A Case Study from South America

History & Civics

8 chapters · 77 classes

• History: The River Valley Civilizations — 14 classes

› The Beginnings of Indian Civilisation — part 1

› The Beginnings of Indian Civilisation — part 2

› The Beginnings of Indian Civilisation — part 3

› The Beginnings of Indian Civilisation — part 4

› The Beginnings of Indian Civilisation — part 5

› The Beginnings of Indian Civilisation — part 6

› The Beginnings of Indian Civilisation — part 7

› Timeline and Sources of History — part 4

› Timeline and Sources of History — part 1

› Timeline and Sources of History — part 6

› The First Great Cities Beside Rivers: Why Early Societies Settled Near Water

› Mesopotamia: Life Between the Tigris and the Euphrates

› Egypt: The Gift of the Nile

› Comparing the River Valley Civilizations of the World

• History: The Vedic Civilization — 7 classes

› India's Cultural Roots — part 1

› India's Cultural Roots — part 2

› India's Cultural Roots — part 3

› India's Cultural Roots — part 4

› The Early Vedic Age: People, Settlements and Daily Life

› The Later Vedic Age: Changes in Society and Government

› The Vedas and the Epics as Windows into the Past

• History: Mahavira & Buddha - Great Preachers — 7 classes

› India in the Sixth Century BCE: A Time of New Ideas

› The Life of Mahavira

› The Teachings of Mahavira and the Spread of Jainism

› The Life of Gautam Buddha

› The Teachings of the Buddha: The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path

› Mahavira and Buddha Compared: Similarities and Differences

› Ahimsa and Tolerance: Why They Matter for Responsible Citizens

• History: Rise of Kingdoms & Republicans — 7 classes

› How Men Became Rulers: Kings and Chiefs in Early India

› The Sixteen Mahajanapadas

› Republics in Ancient India: How They Were Governed

› Monarchy and Republic Compared

› Why Kings Expanded Their Empires: Wars and Invasions

› The Rise of Magadha

› Alexander's Invasion of India

• History: The Mauryan Empire — 12 classes

› The Story of Kautilya, and Two Maps: the Nanda Empire (Fig. 5.12) and the Maurya Empire (Fig. 5.13)

› Chandragupta Takes Magadha, Defeats the Satraps, and Hosts Megasthenes (Fig. 5.14)

› Kautilya's Saptanga (Fig. 5.15), and Why the Countryside Comes First

› The King Who Chose Peace: Ashoka, the Kalinga War, and Fig. 5.16

› The Great Communicator: Edicts on Rock and Pillar, Prakrit and Brahmi (Fig. 5.17)

› Devanampiya Piyadasi: What Ashoka Claimed to Have Done (Fig. 5.18)

› What Dharma Means, and the Edict Instructing the City Magistrates

› After Ashoka, and Life in the Mauryan Period: the Sohagaura Plate (Fig. 5.19) and the Sarnath Capital (Fig. 5.20)

› Some Contributions of the Mauryas: Life and People (Figs. 5.21 to 5.25), Art and Architecture (Figs. 5.26, 5.27)

› The National Emblem, the Coins of Fig. 5.29, and The Fragile Nature of Empires (Fig. 5.30)

› Inside Pataliputra, and What an Empire Is: Imperium, Samraj and the Tributary

› The Six Features of an Empire

• History: The Golden Age – Gupta Empire — 14 classes

› The Big Questions, Fig. 7.1 at Ajanta, and Fig. 7.2: Four Powers of the 3rd to 6th Centuries CE

› The Iron Pillar of Delhi (Fig. 7.3): 1,600 Years Without Rust, and A New Power Emerges

› Chandragupta I's Gold Coin (Fig. 7.4), Chandragupta II 'Vikramaditya', and Why the 'II'

› The Warrior King: the Prayaga Prashasti, Harisena (Fig. 7.5) and Samudragupta with the Veena (Fig. 7.6)

› A Traveller's Account: Faxian on Indian Society in the Gupta Age

› Provinces, Copper-Plate Land Grants, and Thriving Trade as Far as Socotra

› New Ideas and Wonders: Why This Is Called the Classical Age (Figs. 7.11, 7.12)

› Aryabhata and Varahamihira (Fig. 7.13)

› Kalidasa and the Meghadutam, the Cloud Messenger (Fig. 7.14)

› Ayurveda Codified, and The Quest for Beauty: the Centres of Gupta Art

› The Decline of the Guptas, and Meanwhile in the South: the Pallavas at Kanchipuram

› Various Aspects of Gupta Art: Figs. 7.15 to 7.18

› Samudragupta's Pattern with Tributaries, the Gupta Legacy, Before We Move On, and Questions 1 to 7

› Why One Source Is Not Enough: the Chandalas, and Glimpses of the Gupta Empire

• Civics: Rural Local Self Government — 8 classes

› Grassroots Democracy — Part 2: Local Government — part 1

› Grassroots Democracy — Part 2: Local Government — part 2

› Grassroots Democracy — Part 2: Local Government — part 3

› Grassroots Democracy — Part 2: Local Government — part 4

› Reading Fig. 6.18: Five Reasons for Decentralisation, Gandhi's Grām Swarāj, and Who Does What

› Panchayati Raj: Features and the Three Tiers

› The Gram Panchayat and the Gram Sabha: Composition and Functions

› The Panchayat Samiti and the Zila Parishad: Composition and Functions

• Civics: Urban Local Self Government — 8 classes

› Grassroots Democracy — Part 3: Local Government — part 1

› Grassroots Democracy — Part 3: Local Government — part 2

› Grassroots Democracy — Part 3: Local Government — part 3

› Grassroots Democracy — Part 3: Local Government — part 4

› Urban Local Bodies: Municipal Corporations, Municipalities and Nagar Panchayats

› The Municipal Corporation: Composition, Mayor and Councillors

› Functions and Sources of Income of the Municipal Corporation

› Solving Common Problems in Our Surroundings as Proactive Citizens

Hindi (Second Language)

3 chapters · 26 classes

• सुनना और बोलना — 8 classes

› Listening Carefully to Short Hindi Stories and Poems

› Answering Questions on What We Heard

› Speaking Clearly: Pronunciation of Hindi Vowels and Consonants

› Introducing Myself and My Family in Hindi

› Reciting Short Poems with Rhythm and Expression

› Conversation in Daily Situations: Greetings, Requests and Thanks

› Narrating an Event or Picture Story Aloud

› Group Talk: Taking Turns and Respectful Speaking

• पढ़ना एवं लिखना (पठन एवं लेखन कौशल) — 8 classes

› Reading Aloud Simple Hindi Passages with Correct Pauses

› Reading for Meaning: Finding the Main Idea of a Passage

› Learning New Words and Their Meanings from the Text

› Copying and Dictation: Writing Words and Sentences Neatly

› Writing Short Sentences from a Picture

› Writing a Paragraph on a Familiar Topic

› Writing a Short Informal Letter to a Friend

› Reading and Understanding a Short Poem

• व्याकरण और भाषा — 10 classes

› फूल और काँटा — part 3

› तीन बुद्धिमान — part 5

› Varna and Matra: Hindi Alphabet, Vowel Signs and Conjuncts

› Sangya: Nouns and Their Kinds

› Ling and Vachan: Gender and Number in Hindi

› Sarvanam: Pronouns in Everyday Sentences

› Visheshan: Adjectives that Describe

› Kriya: Verbs and the Three Tenses

› Opposites (Vilom) and Words with the Same Meaning (Paryayvachi)

› Punctuation Marks and Making Correct Sentences

Mathematics

6 chapters · 104 classes

• Number System — 22 classes

› The Other Side of Zero — part 1

› The Other Side of Zero — part 2

› The Other Side of Zero — part 3

› The Other Side of Zero — part 4

› The Other Side of Zero — part 5

› The Other Side of Zero — part 6

› The Other Side of Zero — part 7

› The Other Side of Zero — part 8

› The Other Side of Zero — part 9

› The Other Side of Zero — part 11

› The Other Side of Zero — part 12

› The Other Side of Zero — part 13

› The Other Side of Zero — part 14

› The Other Side of Zero — part 16

› The Other Side of Zero — part 17

› The Other Side of Zero — part 18

› The Other Side of Zero — part 19

› The Other Side of Zero — part 20

› The Other Side of Zero — part 21

› Factors and Multiples

› Prime and Composite Numbers and Divisibility Tests

› Highest Common Factor and Lowest Common Multiple

• Ratio and Proportion — 17 classes

› Proportional Reasoning-1 — part 1

› Proportional Reasoning-1 — part 2

› Proportional Reasoning-1 — part 3

› Proportional Reasoning-1 — part 5

› Proportional Reasoning-1 — part 6

› Proportional Reasoning-1 — part 7

› Proportional Reasoning-1 — part 8

› Proportional Reasoning-1 — part 9

› Proportional Reasoning-1 — part 10

› Proportional Reasoning-1 — part 11

› Proportional Reasoning-1 — part 12

› 3.1 A Quick Recap: Testing Two Ratios by Cross-Multiplication

› 3.3 Ratios with More than Two Terms: The Spice Mix

› 3.4 Dividing a Whole in a Given Ratio: Concrete and Paint

› 3.6 Inverse Proportions: When More Means Less

› Comparing Ratios Using Equivalent Ratios

› The Unitary Method

• Algebra — 12 classes

› 4.1 The Notion of Letter-Numbers: Example 1 — Shabnam, Aftab and Fig. 4.1

› Example 2's Matchstick Ls (Fig. 4.2), and Example 3's Coconuts and Jaggery

› Example 4: Perimeter as a Formula, and Figure it Out (Page 4) Questions 1 to 3

› Figure it Out (Pages 4–5): Questions 4 to 7 — Flour Mill, Word Phrases and the Calendar Grid

› 4.2 Revisiting Arithmetic Expressions: Seven Expressions to Evaluate

› 4.3 Omission of the Multiplication Symbol: Why 4 × n Becomes 4n

› Mind the Mistake, Mend the Mistake (Page 7): Nine Substitutions to Check

› 4.4 Simplification: The Perimeter of a Rectangle, from l + b + l + b to 2l + 2b

› Example 5: Pencils and Erasers, and Why 5c + 3c + 10c Becomes 18c

› Perimeter and Area — part 1

› Solving Simple Equations by Trial and by Balancing

› Describing Patterns and Rules with Letter-Numbers

• Geometry — 16 classes

› 5.1 Across the Line: Folding Paper (Fig. 5.1), and the Four Angles at an Intersection (Fig. 5.2)

› Activity 1, and the Proof that Vertically Opposite Angles Are Always Equal

› 5.2 Perpendicular Lines (Fig. 5.4), and 5.3 Between Lines: Describing Fig. 5.5

› Parallel Lines Defined, and Which Pairs Are Parallel in Fig. 5.6

› 5.7 Drawing Parallel Lines with a Set Square (Figs. 5.21 and 5.22), and the Line Through A (Fig. 5.23)

› What Makes a Figure a Quadrilateral, and What Does Not

› 4.1 Rectangles and Squares, and the Carpenter's Problem

› 4.2 Angles in a Quadrilateral: Why They Always Add to 360 Degrees

› The SUMMARY: Five Quadrilaterals, Their Definitions and the Full Venn Diagram

› The Angle Tester and Right Angles

› Measuring Angles in Degrees

› Deduction 7: The Opposite Sides of a Parallelogram Are Equal

› Basic Geometrical Ideas: Points, Lines, Rays and Segments

› Triangles: Kinds by Sides and by Angles

› The Angle Sum of a Triangle

› Circles: Radius, Diameter, Chord and Arc

• Mensuration — 12 classes

› Whose Slice is Bigger? Area by Counting and Multiplying

› Greeting Cards and the Longest Belt

› People Everywhere and Share the Land: Bigger Units of Area

› Area — part 1

› Area — part 2

› Area — part 3

› Measuring Length — part 4

› Grandmother’s Quilt — part 1

› Grandmother’s Quilt — part 3

› Area — part 9

› Perimeter of Rectilinear Figures

› Area and Perimeter of Rectangles and Squares: Word Problems

• Data Handling — 25 classes

› Data Handling and Presentation — part 1

› Data Handling and Presentation — part 2

› Data Handling and Presentation — part 3

› Data Handling and Presentation — part 4

› Data Handling and Presentation — part 5

› Data Handling and Presentation — part 6

› Data Handling and Presentation — part 7

› Data Handling and Presentation — part 8

› Data Handling and Presentation — part 9

› Data Handling and Presentation — part 10

› Data Handling and Presentation — part 11

› Data Handling and Presentation — part 12

› Data Handling and Presentation — part 13

› Data Handling and Presentation — part 14

› Data Handling and Presentation — part 15

› Data Handling and Presentation — part 16

› Data Handling and Presentation — part 17

› Tales by Dots and Lines — part 1

› Tales by Dots and Lines — part 3

› 5.2 Representative Values: Shubman and Yashasvi, and the Meaning of Average

› Average as Fair-Share: Guavas, Hibiscus Flowers, and the Ancient Indian Names for the Mean

› Outliers and Medians: the Heights of Yaangba's and Poovizhi's Families

› Are You a Bookworm? Mean, Median, and an Outlier at the High End

› Reading and Drawing Bar Graphs with a Suitable Scale

› The Mode of a Data Set

Performing Arts

8 chapters · 47 classes

• Sound, Voice and Speech — 9 classes

› Where the Voice Comes From: The Three Voice Subsystems

› Activity 1.1: Clarity in Speech and the Tongue Twisters

› Activity 1.2: Diction, Speed, Intonation and Word Impact

› Volume and Pitch: What the Lion, the Mouse and the Owl Teach an Actor

› Activity 1.3: Guess the Animal Emotion

› Activity 1.4: If You Are an Actor - Choosing Volume and Pitch for Three Lines

› THINK, FEEL, CREATE — part 2

› Sound on Stage: Creating the Ambience of a Scene

› Naad and the Seven Notes of Indian Music

• Space — 5 classes

› What Space Means in Theatre, Dance and Music

› Personal Space and General Space

› Levels, Directions and Pathways in Dance and Theatre

› Stage Space: The Areas of the Stage

› Space in Music: Silence and Pauses Between Notes

• Rhythm — 7 classes

› Music and your Emotions — part 5

› Music and your Emotions — part 6

› DANCING WITH RHYTHM AND TEMPOS — part 1

› DANCING WITH RHYTHM AND TEMPOS — part 2

› DANCING WITH RHYTHM AND TEMPOS — part 3

› Rhythm in Everyday Life and Nature: Heartbeat, Clock and Stride

› Rhythm in Speech and Theatre

• Body Movement — 6 classes

› My Body in Motion — part 1

› My Body in Motion — part 2

› My Body in Motion — part 3

› My Body in Motion — part 4

› Movement as Non-Verbal Communication: Mime and Gesture

› Movement in Rituals, Festivals and Folk Traditions

• Composition — 5 classes

› Composition: Putting Together the Pieces of an Art

› Composition in Theatre: Scenes and the Unity of Time, Space and Action

› Composition in Dance: Patterns and Formations

› Composition in Music: Making a Tune

› Making a Short Group Composition

• Art Vocabulary — 5 classes

› Vocabulary of Theatre: Terms Every Young Actor Should Know

› Vocabulary of Dance: Steps, Poses and Expressions

› Vocabulary of Music: Notes, Beat, Tempo and Pitch

› Names of Instruments and Stage Items

› Using Art Vocabulary Correctly in Speech and Writing

• Performance — 5 classes

› Plan, Prepare, Perform: Activity 9.1 - Visualising the Performance

› Activity 9.2: Building the Song List, and the Invocation 'Swagatham Shubha Swagatham'

› Activity 9.3: A Folk Song from Another Tradition - the Odia Song of Chaita Paraba

› Part B: Prepare - Activity 9.4, Rehearsal and Feedback

› Activity 9.5: Production, Promotion and Support, and Activity 9.6: The Final Performance

• Art Appreciation — 5 classes

› Being a Good Audience: Your Duty in the Seats

› Natyashastra Chapter 27, and What a Review Actually Is

› The Three Types of Review, and Activity 4.1: Play Watching

› The Seven Steps of Preparing to Watch a Play

› Writing a Review: Five Rules, and Circle Time

Physical Education

2 chapters · 18 classes

• Physical Fitness Components — 13 classes

› Motor fitness — part 1

› Motor fitness — part 2

› Motor fitness — part 3

› Motor fitness — part 4

› Motor fitness — part 5

› Motor fitness — part 6

› Motor fitness — part 7

› Motor fitness — part 8

› MF-10 Circle Time - Cardiovascular Endurance: Why You Could Keep Going When Tired

› Assessment: Baseline and Goal for Agility, Cardiovascular Endurance and Strength

› UNIT 2 — part 7

› Health-related Fitness: Flexibility and Why Stretching Matters

› Body Composition and Healthy Habits for Fitness

• Games/Sports skills — 5 classes

› Basic Movement Skills for Games: Running, Jumping and Dodging

› Ball Skills: Throwing, Catching and Passing

› Kicking, Striking and Hitting Skills

› Playing a Small-sided Game: Rules, Teamwork and Fair Play

› Warming Up and Staying Safe While Playing

Physics

6 chapters · 84 classes

• Matter — 18 classes

› Grinding Without End: What a Constituent Particle Is