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01
Arts Education
8 chapters
LAPT Schools
Arts Education
ICSE Class 8
Arts EducationLAPT Books · ICSE Class 8 All books of this class ›
Source: CISCE Curriculum for Upper Primary Classes (VI-VIII), First Edition November 2016, Arts Education (cisce.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UpperPrimary.pdf, PDF pp.323-388). The Council does not prescribe textbooks for Classes I-VIII; this is the Council's own curriculum.
Form 7 classes
Objects and Still Life — part 2
Elements of Art: Point, Line, Shape, Form, Colour, Tone, Texture and Space
The Elements of Visual Arts: Point, Line, Shape, Colour, Tone, Texture and Space
Shape and Form
Kriti — chapter 15 — part 2
Observing lines and shapes in nature and in man-made objects
Making forms from 2-D and 3-D materials
Colour 7 classes
Changing the Typical Picture — part 2
Changing the Typical Picture — part 3
Colour: the colour wheel
Colour Schemes and Mood
Nature’s Palette — part 1
Nature’s Palette — part 2
Colours in plants, flowers and fruits: observing and painting
Texture 5 classes
What texture is: smooth, rough, soft and hard surfaces
Textures in nature: bark, fur, feathers, sand and leaves
Showing texture in drawing with lines and dots
Texture rubbings and collage with fabric and found materials
Creating a picture using several textures
Composition 7 classes
Principles of Art: Balance, Rhythm, Emphasis, Unity, Variety and Proportion
What Is Visual Composition: Realistic, Abstract and Layout
Creating a Four-Part Comic Strip
Thematic Painting and Group Collage
Chapter Exercises and Projects
Texture and Space
Composing a landscape or seascape with foreground and background
Tools & Techniques 5 classes
Painting Tools and Their Appropriate Use and Care
Assessment — part 2
Disciplines of Visual Arts: Drawing and Painting
Techniques for painting: wash, dry brush and blending
Experimenting with mediums: pencil, charcoal, pastel and water colour
Art (Visual Arts) Vocabulary 6 classes
Point and Line
Tone: light, shade and the tonal scale
From Elements to Principles
Art vocabulary: names of hues, tints and shades
Art vocabulary: tools, mediums and materials
Talking about a work of art using the right words
Responding to the Artefacts and Nature 5 classes
Looking closely at the beauty of nature: leaves, clouds and landscapes
Appreciating man-made objects: pottery, textiles and crafts
Appreciating buildings and architecture
Describing and responding to an artwork: what I see, feel and think
Sketching a favourite artefact or natural object
Perspective 6 classes
PEOPLE IN PLACES — part 1
PEOPLE IN PLACES — part 2
Perspective Techniques: Linear and Aerial
Analysing and Using Perspective
Activity 15.2: One Object, Four Ways - Contour, Silhouette, Shading and Icon
Drawing a street scene in one-point perspective
02
Biology
6 chapters
LAPT Schools
Biology
ICSE Class 8
BiologyLAPT Books · ICSE Class 8 All books of this class ›
Source: CISCE Curriculum for Upper Primary Classes (VI-VIII), First Edition November 2016, Biology (cisce.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UpperPrimary.pdf, PDF pp.269-296). The Council does not prescribe textbooks for Classes I-VIII; this is the Council's own curriculum.
Transport of Food and Minerals in Plants 9 classes
Lymph, and the Start of Transportation in Plants
Activity 10.6: Finding the Stomata (Fig. 10.6), and 10.3.1 Transport of Water
Activity 10.7: Red Ink Up a Stem (Fig. 10.7), the Xylem and the Phloem (Fig. 10.8)
Transportation in Plants: Moving Water Upward
Think Like a Scientist: Hot, Room-Temperature and Ice-Cold Water
Diffusion: How Simple Organisms Exchange Materials
Absorption of Water and Minerals by Root Hairs
Transpiration and Why It Matters to a Plant
Translocation: Moving Food Through the Phloem
Reproduction in Plants and Animals 15 classes
Reproduction, and Asexual Reproduction in Plants
Cutting, Grafting, Layering and Tissue Culture
Budding in Yeast and Hydra
Spore Formation in Fungi
The Parts of a Flower
Pollination, Self and Cross
Pollination Strategies and Pollinators
Fertilisation, Fruit and Seed
External and Internal Fertilisation in Animals
Yolk, Larvae and Parental Care
The Male Reproductive System
The Female Reproductive System
Genes, Variation, and 13.5.1 Vegetative Propagation
Why No Two Children Are Alike, and Sexual Reproduction in Plants (Fig. 13.13)
Clones, Mitosis, and Why Sexual Reproduction Is Different
Ecosystems 14 classes
13.1 Eco-system: What are Its Components?
13.1.1 Food Chains and Webs, and the Flow of Energy
Table 12.1: Biotic and Abiotic Components, and How a Fish Lives in a Pond
What an Ecosystem Is, Aquatic and Terrestrial, and the Ladder of Fig. 12.7
Table 12.4, and the Words for Who Eats What
Activity 12.6's Food Chain, and Activity 12.7: Building the Pyramid
Trophic Levels, and Activity 12.8: From Food Chain to Food Web
12.6 Decomposers and Saprotrophs, and the Migratory Birds of Khichan
12.7 One Change Leads to Another, and Activity 12.9: Why Frog Legs Were Banned
Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism, and A. J. T. Johnsingh
12.9.1 Human-Made Ecosystems, the Green Revolution, and Activity 12.10
Activity 12.4: Three Criteria, and Filling In Table 12.3
Biogeochemical Cycles and the Water Cycle
The Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles in Nature
Human Body – Endocrine, Circulatory and Nervous Systems 13 classes
Nervous Tissue
Transportation in Human Beings: The Heart
6.1 Animals - the Nervous System and How a Stimulus is Detected
6.1.1 What Happens in Reflex Actions?
6.1.2 The Human Brain and Its Parts
6.1.3 and 6.1.4 How Nervous Tissue is Protected and How It Causes Action
6.3 Hormones in Animals: the Endocrine Glands
Feedback Control of Hormones in the Body
Blood Pressure and Blood Vessels
Blood: Plasma and the Three Kinds of Blood Cells
Double Circulation: The Path of Blood Through the Body
Blood Groups and Safe Blood Transfusion
When Hormones Go Wrong: Diabetes and Thyroid Disorders
Health and Hygiene 17 classes
Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy Body — part 5
Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy Body — part 8
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
Activity 3.4 and Table 3.1, Part One: The Diseases That Travel Through the Air
Table 3.1, Part Two: The Diseases That Travel Through Water and Food
Table 3.1, Part Three: Malaria and Dengue, and the Eight Everyday Precautions
3.4.2 Non-Communicable Diseases: Deficiency Diseases, Chronic Illness, and Diabetes in India
3.5 Prevention Is Better Than Cure: Activity 3.6, the Bhadrak Campaign, and Immunity
Vaccines and Acquired Immunity: How They Are Made, and the Tetanus Shot
Vaccines Are Preventive, Not Curative: India's Vaccine Production, M. K. Bhan, and 3.5.1 Antibiotics
Fleming's Chance Discovery of Penicillin, and How Antibiotic Resistance Spreads (Fig. 3.5a)
Activity 3.7 and Fig. 3.5b: Using Antibiotics Wisely, and What Traditional Medicine Can and Cannot Do
Food Production 9 classes
Why the Dough Rises, and Activity 2.9: Two Bowls of Milk
Lactobacillus, Rhizobium in the Root Nodules, and 2.4.3 Microalgae
10.4.3 Food processing
Biotechnology in Food, Cleaning and the Environment
2.4 How Are We Connected to Microbes? Pickles, and Activity 2.7
Useful Products from Plants: Food, Fibre, Timber, Oils and Dyes
Useful Products from Animals: Milk, Eggs, Honey, Silk and Lac
Animal Husbandry: Dairy Farming and Poultry
Bee-Keeping and Silk Production as Rural Occupations
03
Chemistry
9 chapters
LAPT Schools
Chemistry
ICSE Class 8
ChemistryLAPT Books · ICSE Class 8 All books of this class ›
Source: CISCE Curriculum for Upper Primary Classes (VI-VIII), First Edition November 2016, Chemistry (cisce.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UpperPrimary.pdf, PDF pp.237-268). The Council does not prescribe textbooks for Classes I-VIII; this is the Council's own curriculum.
Matter 13 classes
Grinding Without End: What a Constituent Particle Is
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
7.4 Activity 7.8: Potassium Permanganate Spreading Through Water (Fig. 7.13)
Activity 7.9: An Incense Stick in the Corner of a Room (Fig. 7.14), and How Soap Lifts Oil (Fig. 7.15)
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)
Physical and Chemical Changes 11 classes
Four Students, Four Changes: the Ice, the Bottle, the Bud and the Banana
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)
Why the Covered Candle Goes Out, the Blanket Rule, and the Fireflies
Activity 5.6: Ignition Temperature and the Fire Triangle (Figs. 5.7, 5.8)
Activity 5.7: What Happens When a Candle Burns, and Faraday's Lectures (Fig. 5.9)
5.5 Are Changes Permanent? Activity 5.8 and Table 5.2, and 5.6 Desirable Changes
Undesirable Changes, Compost and Pollution, and 5.7.1 Weathering of Rocks (Fig. 5.10)
Elements, Compounds and Mixtures 15 classes
Methods of Separation in Everyday Life — part 1
Methods of Separation in Everyday Life — part 3
Methods of Separation in Everyday Life — part 5
Methods of Separation in Everyday Life — part 7
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
Nature of Matter : and Mixtures — part 1
Methods of Separation in Everyday Life — part 9
Elements, Compounds and Mixtures: Telling Them Apart
Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Mixtures: Solutions, Suspensions and Colloids
Atomic Structure 12 classes
Is the Atom the Smallest Thing?
Thomson and the Electron
Testing Thomson: The Gold Foil Experiment
Rutherford's Nuclear Model
Bohr's Model of the Atom
The Neutron, and What Gives an Atom Its Mass
Atomic Number and Mass Number
How Electrons Fill the Shells
Valency
Dalton's Atomic Theory
Isotopes, and Average Atomic Mass
Isobars, and a Story Not Yet Finished
Language of Chemistry 8 classes
Symbols of Elements
How Atoms Combine: The Covalent Bond
Naming Covalent Compounds
Ionic Bonds
Naming Ions and Ionic Compounds
Writing Chemical Formulae
Radicals and Their Valencies
The Criss-cross Method for Writing Formulae
Chemical Reactions 15 classes
What a Chemical Reaction Is, and How You Know One Has Happened
1.1 Chemical Equations: From a Sentence to a Chemical Equation
1.1.2 Balanced Chemical Equations: the Idea
1.2 Types of Chemical Reactions: Combination Reactions and Exothermic/Endothermic Reactions
1.2.2 Decomposition by Heating: Thermal Decomposition
1.2.3 Displacement Reactions
1.2.4 Double Displacement Reactions and Precipitation
1.2.5 Oxidation and Reduction: Redox Reactions
1.3 Effects of Oxidation in Everyday Life: Corrosion and Rancidity
1.1.2 Balancing by Hit-and-Trial: a Worked Example
1.2.2 Decomposition by Light and Electricity
4.3 Burning Magnesium: Activity 4.6 and a Basic Oxide (Figs. 4.5, 4.6)
3.2.1 and 3.2.2 Metals Burnt in Air, and Metals with Water
Heating Carbonates and Hydrates: What Is Formed
Acidic and Basic Oxides of Non-metals and Metals
Hydrogen 6 classes
Occurrence and Physical Properties of Hydrogen
Preparing Hydrogen in the Laboratory from Zinc and Dilute Acid
Collecting Hydrogen and Testing for It
Chemical Properties of Hydrogen: Burning and Reducing Action
Hydrogen in Acids and Organic Compounds
Hydrogen as a Fuel and Its Other Uses
Water 12 classes
Nature’s Treasures — part 3
A Journey through States of Water — part 8
A Journey through States of Water — part 1
A Journey through States of Water — part 2
A Journey through States of Water — part 3
ORS, Uniform and Non-Uniform Mixtures, and 9.1 Solute, Solvent, Solution
The Chashni Puzzle, and Activity 9.1: How Much Salt Will Water Take?
Saturated and Unsaturated, Concentration, Dilute and Concentrated, Solubility
Activity 9.2: Baking Soda at 20, 50 and 70 °C, and Asima Chatterjee
Sources of Water: Sea, Well, River, Lake, Pond and Rain
Water as a Universal Solvent and Its Uses
Making Water Fit for Drinking
Carbon and its Compounds 9 classes
4.1 Bonding in Carbon: Why Carbon Shares Electrons
4.2 The Versatile Nature of Carbon: Catenation and Tetravalency
4.3.1 Chemical Properties of Carbon Compounds: Combustion
4.1 Sharing Electrons: the Covalent Bond Idea
Allotropes of Carbon: Diamond, Graphite and Fullerenes
Carbon in Living Things and Everyday Products
Fuels from Carbon: Coal, Petroleum and Natural Gas
Hydrocarbons: Saturated and Unsaturated
Carbon Dioxide: Preparation, Properties and Uses
04
Computer Studies
6 chapters
LAPT Schools
Computer Studies
ICSE Class 8
Computer StudiesLAPT Books · ICSE Class 8 All books of this class ›
Source: CISCE Curriculum for Upper Primary Classes (VI-VIII), First Edition November 2016, Computer Studies (cisce.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UpperPrimary.pdf, PDF pp.297-322). The Council does not prescribe textbooks for Classes I-VIII; this is the Council's own curriculum.
Operating System (OS) and Graphical User Interface 9 classes
2.2 Identify Key Functions of Operating Systems in Computer Systems
2.3 Analyze Common Operating Systems: Features and Use Cases
2.1 Explore the Basics of Operating Systems
2.2 Identify Different Types of Operating Systems
2.3 Understand the Functions of an Operating System
2.4 Navigate the Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Character User Interface and Graphical User Interface Compared
Booting the Computer: What the Operating System Does at Start-up
Managing Files, Folders, Memory and Devices Through the Operating System
Spreadsheet – Functions and Charts 14 classes
4.3 Creating Basic Formulas and Functions
4.4 Utilizing Charts and Graphs for Data Visualization
Formulae, and why they begin with an equals sign
Mathematical operators and the order of evaluation
Formulae built from cell addresses
Why functions are needed: SUM and AVERAGE
MAX, MIN and COUNT
Copying formulae with copy-paste and with the fill handle
Referencing, and relative referencing
Mixed and absolute referencing, and the thumb rule
Charts: why they are used, the types, and creating one
What a spreadsheet is, and what Calc can do
Why functions are needed: SUM and AVERAGE
Charts: why they are used, the types, and creating one
Algorithms and Flowcharts 6 classes
1.1 Define Algorithms and Their Importance in Coding
1.2 Identify Different Types of Algorithms in Daily Life
1.3 Introduction to Flowcharts and Their Components
1.4 Create Basic Flowcharts for Simple Processes
1.5 Translate Algorithms into Flowcharts Step-by-Step
1.6 Apply Algorithms and Flowcharts to Solve Real-World Problems
Program Coding 12 classes
3.1 Understand Python Syntax Basics
3.2 Explore Data Types and Variables in Python
3.3 Implement Basic Input and Output Functions
3.4 Create Simple Conditional Statements
3.5 Use Loops for Repetitive Tasks in Python
3.6 Develop a Basic Python Program from Scratch
3.1 Understand the Concept of Loops in Scratch
3.2 Create Basic Repeat Loops with Scratch Blocks
3.3 Explore Conditional Statements for Decision Making
3.4 Implement If-Else Conditions in Scratch Projects
6.1 Python Basics: Programs, Variables, Data Types and Input
6.2 Python Control: Decisions and Loops
App Development 7 classes
What an App Is and Where Apps Run
Types of Apps: Mobile, Desktop and Web Apps
How Apps Work: Input, Processing and Output
Uses of Apps in Daily Life, Learning and Business
Free App Development Tools and Planning Your First App
Building a Simple App Step by Step
Testing and Sharing Your App
Networks 9 classes
3.1 Define Key Networking Concepts and Terminology
3.2 Identify Types of Network Topologies and Their Uses
3.3 Explain the Functionality of Network Devices
3.4 Describe the Basics of Internet Protocols (IP)
3.5 Demonstrate How to Set Up a Simple Local Area Network (LAN)
3.6 Explore the Role of Internet Safety and Security Practices
1.1 The Internet and the World Wide Web
Computer Networks, Their Types and Devices
1.4 Explain the Concept of the Internet and Its Purpose
05
English
5 chapters
LAPT Schools
English
ICSE Class 8
EnglishLAPT Books · ICSE Class 8 All books of this class ›
Source: CISCE Curriculum for Upper Primary Classes (VI-VIII), First Edition November 2016, English (cisce.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UpperPrimary.pdf, PDF pp.27-58). The Council does not prescribe textbooks for Classes I-VIII; this is the Council's own curriculum.
Listening and Speaking 27 classes
Listen and Respond
Speaking Activity
Listen and Respond
Speaking Activity
Listen and Respond
Speaking Activity
Listen and Respond and Speaking Activity
Listen and Respond
Speaking Activity
Listen and Respond
Speaking Activity
Listen and Respond
Speaking Activity
Listen and Respond
Speaking Activity and Writing Task
Listen and Respond
Speaking Activity
Listen and Respond
Speaking Activity and Writing Task
Listen and Respond
Speaking Activity
Listen and Respond
Speaking Activity
Save Mother Earth: Pollution, Role-play and Formal Letter
Learning Beyond the Text
Making notes and a summary from an academic talk
Planning and delivering a short multimedia presentation
Reading 16 classes
Reading for Meaning — Part I
Reading for Meaning — Parts II and III
Reading for Appreciation
Reading for Meaning
Reading for Appreciation
Reading for Meaning — Part I
Reading for Meaning — Part II
Reading for Meaning — Part III
Reading for Appreciation
Environment: Heroes of the Environment and Let's Clean Up (Reading & Writing Skills)
Environment: A Tale of Three Villages and Geological Heritage (Reading & Vocabulary)
Education: Access, Rights and the Girl Child (Reading & Speaking Skills)
Education: Inclusion, Choice and Determination (Reading & Vocabulary in Context)
Reading a translated myth and its cultural background
Reading folktales and legends in translation
Evaluating a text in its social, political and cultural setting
Writing 11 classes
Writing Task and Learning Beyond the Text
Writing Task and Learning Beyond the Text
Writing Task
Writing Task
Writing Task and Learning Beyond the Text
Writing Task
Comparing and Contrasting, and the Computer Survey
Giving Advice, Letters to a Magazine and the Song We Are the World
Health and Medicine: Sports and Nature's Medicines (Reading & Writing Skills)
Researching a topic and defending your view in writing
Creative writing: developing a story or poem step by step
Grammar and Vocabulary in Context 11 classes
Vocabulary and Structures in Context
Vocabulary in Context
Vocabulary and Structures in Context
Vocabulary in Context
Vocabulary and Structures in Context
Vocabulary in Context
Vocabulary and Structures in Context
Vocabulary in Context
Vocabulary and Structures in Context
Vocabulary in Context
Using grammar accurately in emails, posts and other digital texts
English Literature - Suggested Reading List 5 classes
The suggested reading list: how to choose a book and keep a reading journal
Reading fiction from the list: plot, character and setting
Reading poetry and drama from the list: theme and language
Reading non-fiction from the list: biography and travel writing
Responding to a book: review and class discussion
06
Geography
8 chapters
LAPT Schools
Geography
ICSE Class 8
GeographyLAPT Books · ICSE Class 8 All books of this class ›
Source: CISCE Curriculum for Upper Primary Classes (VI-VIII), First Edition November 2016, Geography (cisce.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UpperPrimary.pdf, PDF pp.175-204). The Council does not prescribe textbooks for Classes I-VIII; this is the Council's own curriculum.
Representation of Geographical Features 7 classes
Contours: What They Are and How They Are Drawn
Slopes Shown by Contour Patterns: Gentle, Steep and Uneven
Landforms on Contour Maps: Hills, Valleys and Plateaus
Conventional Symbols and Colours on a Toposheet
Reading a Toposheet: Scale, Grid and Marginal Information
Settlements, Drainage and Land Use on a Toposheet
Measuring Distance and Direction on a Toposheet
Population Dynamics 11 classes
Getting started: the dynamics of population
What is demography?
Population at a glance
What determines the population of a country?
Birth and fertility rates
Death rate and migration
How do countries experience population change?
India's population: composition and trends
India's demographic dividend
Review and activities
Case Study: How Rapid Population Growth Affects Development
Migration 7 classes
What Is Migration? Push and Pull Factors
Types of Migration: Internal and International, Temporary and Permanent
Migration Streams: Rural to Urban and Other Directions
Why People Move: Economic, Social and Environmental Causes
Effects of Migration on the Source and Destination Areas
Migration of Skilled People: The Brain Drain from India
Case Study of a Migration Stream
Urbanisation 8 classes
Getting started: India's urban landscape
Population density in cities
How do cities become centres of economic activity?
What leads to urbanisation? The process of urbanisation
Cities as cultural hubs
Challenges faced by cities
Planning our cities
Effects of Rapid Urbanisation and Its Link with Migration
Natural and Man-made Disasters 15 classes
Convection Currents, and the Three Kinds of Plate Boundary
The Map of the Plates, the Ring of Fire, and Why the Theory Matters
Where Earthquakes and Volcanoes Strike, and India's Risk
Bhūkampa: Varāhamihira's Account, and What a Volcano Leaves Behind
Landslides: Natural and Human Causes
Avalanches: Why Snow Slides
Glacial Lake Outburst Floods
Monsoon Failure, Climates and Disasters, (a) Cyclones, and the NDRF (Fig. 3.12)
How a Cyclone Forms, the Eye of the Cyclone (Fig. 3.13), and Think About It: What Clouds Are Made Of
(b) Floods: Rivers, Glacial Bursts and Kedarnath 2013, and Urban Flooding (Figs. 3.14, 3.15)
(c) Landslides and (d) Forest Fires, and the Let's Explore on Fig. 3.15
Man-made Disasters: Industrial Accidents, Fires and Pollution
Disaster Management: Before, During and After a Disaster
The Role of the Government in Disaster Management
Case Study: A Major Disaster and the Lessons Learned
Asia: The Largest Continent 6 classes
The continents: variety on land
Asia
Location, Extent and Boundaries of Asia
Physical Features of Asia: Mountains, Plateaus and Plains
Climate and Natural Vegetation of Asia
Rivers, Resources and People of Asia
India: Geographical Features 17 classes
The Big Questions, Fig. 1.1 Jog Falls, and India as a Subcontinent of Five Regions
The Himalayas: Reading a 2500-km Wall on the Map and in Fig. 1.2
Gaumukh and Fig. 1.3, the Eight Thousanders, and the Water Tower of Asia
How the Himalayas Were Formed: Gondwana, the Collision, and Figs. 1.4 and 1.5
Himadri, Himachal and Shivalik: The Three Ranges, and the Kath-kuni House of Fig. 1.6
The Great Himalayan National Park: Reading the Seven Pictures of Fig. 1.7
The Cold Desert of India: Moonland (Fig. 1.8), Yaks (Fig. 1.9) and Pangong Tso (Fig. 1.10)
The Gangetic Plains: Rivers, Multi-cropping, Transport and the Night Lights of Fig. 1.16
The Great Indian Desert: Sand Dunes (Fig. 1.21), Jaisalmer (Fig. 1.22) and the Pushkar Mela (Fig. 1.23)
Water in the Thar: Scouring with Sand, Taanka and Kunds (Fig. 1.24)
The Aravalli Hills: 2.5 Billion Years Old, the Zinc of Zawar, and Kumbhalgarh (Figs. 1.25, 1.26)
The Peninsular Plateau: What a Plateau Is, and the Western and Eastern Ghats
The Deccan: Forests, Tribal Communities, Waterfalls and Coal (Figs. 1.27 to 1.32)
India's Amazing Coastlines: The West Coast and The East Coast (Figs. 1.33, 1.34, 1.35)
The Indian Islands: Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar, Barren Island, and the Sundarbans (Figs. 1.36 to 1.40)
The Hills of the Northeast: Garo, Khasi and Jaintia, and the Three Views of Fig. 1.41
Mawlynnong and the Living Root Bridges (Fig. 1.42), Before We Move On, and Questions and Activities 1 to 9
India: Human Resources 6 classes
Factors of Production — part 3
Factors of Production — part 4
People as a Resource: Human Capital and Development
Health, Education and Skills as National Assets
Case Study: Natural Resources Left Unused for Want of Skilled People
Government Programmes to Build Skills and Employment
07
History & Civics
10 chapters
LAPT Schools
History & Civics
ICSE Class 8
History & CivicsLAPT Books · ICSE Class 8 All books of this class ›
Source: CISCE Curriculum for Upper Primary Classes (VI-VIII), First Edition November 2016, History & Civics (cisce.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UpperPrimary.pdf, PDF pp.137-174). The Council does not prescribe textbooks for Classes I-VIII; this is the Council's own curriculum.
History: A Period of Transition 10 classes
6 Nationalism and Imperialism
1 Before the Industrial Revolution
2 Hand Labour and Steam Power
3 Industrialisation in the Colonies
4 Factories Come Up
5 The Peculiarities of Industrial Growth
3 The Print Revolution and Its Impact
The Renaissance: Rebirth of Learning in Europe
Renaissance in Art, Literature and Science
Effects of the Renaissance on Religion and Politics
History: The Growth of Nationalism 8 classes
1 The French Revolution and the Idea of the Nation
2 The Making of Nationalism in Europe
3 The Age of Revolutions: 1830-1848
The Making of the National Movement: 1870s–1947 — part 1
The Making of the National Movement: 1870s–1947 — part 3
The American Revolution: Causes and the Thirteen Colonies
The War of Independence and the Declaration of Independence
Impact of the French and American Revolutions on Rights and Liberty
History: India in the 18th Century 12 classes
Alamgir: How Aurangzeb Took the Throne, and What He Then Banned
The Argument About Aurangzeb's Motives, and the Farman of 1669
'I Came Alone and Am Going Away Alone', and How to Read a Darker Period
The Rise of the Sikhs: From Ik Onkar to the Khalsa
Sis Ganj Sahib, Ranjit Singh, and Fig. 2.27: The Whole Chapter in One Diagram
From Trade to Territory — part 1
Reading Fig. 2.16: The Mughals and the Rise of Regional Powers
Reading Fig. 2.12: Kingdoms in the Deccan and the Vijayanagara Empire
Decline of the Mughal Empire After Aurangzeb
Independent Regional Kingdoms: Bengal, Awadh and Hyderabad
The Marathas Under the Peshwas
Invasions of Nadir Shah and Ahmad Shah Abdali
History: Traders to Rulers 15 classes
The Age of Colonialism: Five Nations and Four Motives
Colachel 1741, and Dupleix's Two Inventions
Reading Fig. 4.6: A Fortified, Grid-Planned Pondicherry in 1764
From Traders to Rulers, and the Painting the Company Commissioned
Divide and Rule, and the Betrayal at Plassey
The Doctrine of Lapse, the Princely States, and an Empire on the Cheap
From Trade to Territory — part 2
From Trade to Territory — part 3
From Trade to Territory — part 4
From Trade to Territory — part 5
From Trade to Territory — part 6
From Trade to Territory — part 7
From Trade to Territory — part 8
The Battle of Buxar and the Grant of the Diwani
Subsidiary Alliance and the Wars Against Mysore and the Marathas
History: British Policies and Impacts 26 classes
Civilising the “Native”, Educating the Nation — part 1
Civilising the “Native”, Educating the Nation — part 2
Civilising the “Native”, Educating the Nation — part 3
Civilising the “Native”, Educating the Nation — part 4
Civilising the “Native”, Educating the Nation — part 5
Civilising the “Native”, Educating the Nation — part 6
Civilising the “Native”, Educating the Nation — part 7
One-Fourth of World GDP: India Before the Europeans Came
Vasco da Gama's Second Voyage, the Cartaz, and Rani Abbakka
The Goa Inquisition, and the Dutch in India
The Bengal Famine of 1770, and W.W. Hunter's Account
Grain for Export While People Died: Lytton and the Free Market
Fifty to a Hundred Million, and the Drain of India's Wealth
45 Trillion Dollars: Naoroji, Dutt and the Men Who Counted
Reading Fig. 4.14: What 'The East Offering Its Riches to Britannia' Is Saying
Muslin to Ruin: The Decline of India's Textile Industry
'The Bones of the Cotton Weavers', and the Little Republics
Macaulay's Minute of 1835, and the Schools That Disappeared
Railways Built for Whom? Reshaping an Economy to Serve an Empire
'Indians Funded Their Own Subjugation', and the Jewel in the Crown
From Trade to Territory — part 9
Ruling the Countryside — part 4
Before We Move On, and Questions 1 to 3
Tribals, Dikus and the Vision of a Golden Age — part 6
Land Revenue Systems: Permanent Settlement, Ryotwari and Mahalwari
British Administration: Civil Service, Army, Police and Courts
History: The Great Uprising of 1857 11 classes
When People Revolt — part 1
When People Revolt — part 2
When People Revolt — part 3
When People Revolt — part 4
When People Revolt — part 5
When People Revolt — part 6
When People Revolt — part 7
When People Revolt — part 8
The Making of the National Movement: 1870s–1947 — part 2
The Indigo Revolt, and Why 'Sepoy Mutiny' Was Rejected
After 1857: The Government of India Act 1858 and the Queen's Proclamation
History: Socio-Religious Reforms 13 classes
Women, Caste and Reform — part 1
Women, Caste and Reform — part 2
Women, Caste and Reform — part 3
Women, Caste and Reform — part 4
Women, Caste and Reform — part 5
Women, Caste and Reform — part 6
Women, Caste and Reform — part 7
Women, Caste and Reform — part 8
7 Religious Reform and Public Debates
Raja Ram Mohan Roy and the Brahmo Samaj
Dayananda Saraswati and the Arya Samaj
Ramakrishna, Vivekananda and the Aligarh Movement
Jyotiba Phule, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and Reform for Women
History: India’s Struggle for Freedom 27 classes
The Making of the National Movement: 1870s–1947 — part 4
The Making of the National Movement: 1870s–1947 — part 5
The Making of the National Movement: 1870s–1947 — part 6
The Making of the National Movement: 1870s–1947 — part 7
The Making of the National Movement: 1870s–1947 — part 8
The Making of the National Movement: 1870s–1947 — part 9
The Making of the National Movement: 1870s–1947 — part 10
Getting started: the long road to independence
A Royal Proclamation
Reform movements and other influences
The rise of the Indian National Congress
Growing discontent
The 1905 Partition of Bengal and nationalism
The nationalist agenda
The All-India Muslim League and the 1907 Surat Split
The revolutionaries
Home Rule Movement and the Lucknow Pact
Gandhi and the Non-Cooperation Movement
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre and its aftermath
The Khilafat Movement and its aftermath
Protests, repression, revenge and more revolutionary action
Purna Swaraj and Civil Disobedience
The Gandhi-Irwin Pact
Separate nations, World War II and the Indian National Army
The Quit India Movement
Partition, turmoil and independence
Review and activities
Civics: The Three main Organs of the Indian Government: Legislature, Executive, Judiciary 18 classes
The Parliamentary System: Legislature and Executive — part 1
The Parliamentary System: Legislature and Executive — part 2
The Parliamentary System: Legislature and Executive — part 3
The Parliamentary System: Legislature and Executive — part 4
The Parliamentary System: Legislature and Executive — part 5
The Parliamentary System: Legislature and Executive — part 6
The Parliamentary System: Legislature and Executive — part 7
The Parliamentary System: Legislature and Executive — part 8
The Parliamentary System: Legislature and Executive — part 9
The Parliamentary System: Legislature and Executive — part 10
The Parliamentary System: Legislature and Executive — part 11
The Parliamentary System: Legislature and Executive — part 12
Legislature (Fig. 6.10) and Executive: The Political and the Permanent Halves of the Government
Reading Fig. 6.11's Hierarchy, the Five Great Services, and C.B. Muthamma's Case (Fig. 6.12)
Why the Judiciary Matters, and Three Tiers (Fig. 6.17): How Local Government Became the Third
Reading Fig. 6.19: How Three Levels and Three Organs Run One School System
Grassroots Democracy — Part 1: Governance — part 2
Separation of Powers, and the Judiciary
Civics: United Nations 6 classes
Why the United Nations Was Formed: From the League of Nations to 1945
Aims and Principles of the United Nations
The General Assembly and the Security Council
ECOSOC, the International Court of Justice and the Secretariat
UN Agencies: UNESCO, WHO, UNICEF and FAO
India and the United Nations
08
Hindi (Second Language)
3 chapters
LAPT Schools
Hindi (Second Language)
ICSE Class 8
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Source: CISCE Curriculum for Upper Primary Classes (VI-VIII), First Edition November 2016, Hindi (cisce.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UpperPrimary.pdf, PDF pp.59-94). The Council does not prescribe textbooks for Classes I-VIII; this is the Council's own curriculum.
सुनना और बोलना 5 classes
Listening Carefully to a Spoken Hindi Passage and Noting Main Points
Speaking Hindi Clearly: Pronunciation, Pace and Expression
Conversation and Discussion in Hindi on Everyday Topics
Narrating an Event or Experience Aloud in Hindi
Reciting Poems and Speaking Before an Audience in Hindi
पढ़ना एवं लिखना (पठन एवं लेखन कौशल) 5 classes
Reading Hindi Prose Fluently and Understanding Its Main Idea
Reading Hindi Poetry for Meaning and Feeling
Writing a Paragraph in Hindi on a Given Topic
Writing Letters and Applications in Hindi
Writing a Short Story or Essay in Hindi
व्याकरण और भाषा 7 classes
Nouns, Pronouns and Gender and Number in Hindi
Verbs and Tenses in Hindi
Adjectives and Adverbs in Hindi
Case Markers and Conjunctions in Hindi
Synonyms, Antonyms and Opposites in Hindi
Idioms and Proverbs in Hindi
Punctuation and Sentence Correction in Hindi
09
Mathematics
6 chapters
LAPT Schools
Mathematics
ICSE Class 8
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Source: CISCE Curriculum for Upper Primary Classes (VI-VIII), First Edition November 2016, Mathematics (cisce.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UpperPrimary.pdf, PDF pp.95-136). The Council does not prescribe textbooks for Classes I-VIII; this is the Council's own curriculum.
Number System 12 classes
3.4 Fractions, Negative Fractions and the Set of Rational Numbers
3.4 Brahmagupta's Laws for Rational Numbers, and Closure
3.4.1 Rational Numbers on the Number Line, and Absolute Value
3.4.2 The Density of Rational Numbers
3.5 Irrational Numbers: Baudhayana's Problem and the Diagonal
3.5.2 Constructing an Irrational Length with Ruler and Compass
3.5.3 The Story of Pi and Madhava's Infinite Series
3.6 Real Numbers: Terminating, Repeating, and How to Tell in Advance
1.3 Revisiting Irrational Numbers, and Theorem 1.2
Laws of Exponents and Powers with Integer Exponents
Squares, Square Roots, Cubes and Cube Roots of Perfect Numbers
Comparing and Ordering Rational Numbers
Ratio and Proportion 53 classes
Per Cent Means Out of a Hundred
Three Methods for Turning a Fraction into a Percentage
Figure it Out: Six Fractions, Nandini's Marbles, and the Long-Distance Run
Why 100 and Not 10 or 43, and Where 'Per Hundred' Came From
1.2 Percentage of Some Quantity: Who Ate More Sugar?
Free-hand Computations: The Mental Percentage Table
The FDP Trio: Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
Three Routes to 60 Marks, and the Millet Kanji Ratio
Four Ways to Finish the Ride to Agra
Percentages Greater Than 100: Kishanlal's Eight Days
Figure it Out: Missing Numbers, Bar Models and Comparisons
Figure it Out: Fill in the Blanks, and Mariam's Peculiar Bull
Word Problems, and 1.3 Using Percentages to Compare Proportions
Know Your Contents: Reading Two Badam Drink Labels
Percentage Decrease, and What Cost Price, Marked Price and Selling Price Mean
Profit and Loss Worked: The Sweater, the Old Rice, the Damaged Vase
Discounts, Gross Profit and Net Profit
Taxes: Checking the GST on a Real Bill
Figure it Out: Samson's Car, Two Buffaloes, and Cameras Down 85 Per Cent
Interest, Compounding, and Why 6000 Becomes 7986
The General Formulas: p(1 + rt) and p(1 + r) Multiplied t Times
Figure it Out: Jasmine, the Post Office, and Bacteria That Double
Decline: A Depreciating TV, a Shrinking Village, and Would You Rather?
Tricky Percentages: Cakely versus Cakify, and Surbhi's Mishap
Figure it Out: Bengaluru, World Population Shares, and GST on a Phone
Figure it Out: x% of y, the Excursion, and Three Shop Deals
Figure it Out: The 99 Per Cent Left-Handed Room, and Reading a Bar Graph
Summary of the Chapter, and the Peaceful Knights Puzzle
3.1 A Quick Recap: Testing Two Ratios by Cross-Multiplication
3.2 Ratios in Maps: What RF 1 : 60,00,000 Means
3.3 Ratios with More than Two Terms: The Spice Mix
3.4 Dividing a Whole in a Given Ratio: Concrete and Paint
Angles in a Ratio, and Figure it Out: Coins, Books and Triangles
3.6 Inverse Proportions: When More Means Less
The Rule xy = k, and Checking It on the Table
Figure it Out: Spotting Inverse Proportion in a Table
Pumps, Provisions, and Two People Working Together
Figure it Out: Which Pairs Are Inverse, and Reading Sleep Charts
Two Pumps Together, Machines, Speed, and the Summary
Proportional Reasoning-1 — part 1
Proportional Reasoning-1 — part 2
Proportional Reasoning-1 — part 3
Proportional Reasoning-1 — part 4
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
Proportional Reasoning-1 — part 13
The Unitary Method in Everyday Buying and Selling
Algebra 22 classes
3.1 Introduction: Akhila at the Fair, and Two Equations at Once
3.2 Consistent, Inconsistent and Dependent Pairs
Table 3.1: Comparing the Ratios of the Coefficients
Example 1: Checking Consistency Graphically
Examples 2 and 3: Coincident Lines, and Champa's Pants and Skirts
Exercise 3.1: Forming and Testing Pairs of Equations
3.3 Algebraic Methods, and 3.3.1 The Substitution Method
The Three Steps of Substitution, and Example 5: Aftab and His Daughter
Examples 6 and 7: When There Is No Unique Answer
Exercise 3.2: Practising the Substitution Method
3.3.2 The Elimination Method, and Example 8: Two Incomes
The Four Steps of Elimination, and Example 9
Example 10: A Two-Digit Number and Its Reverse
Exercise 3.3: Elimination and Substitution Together
3.4 Summary
Algebra Play — part 1
Algebra Play — part 2
Algebra Play — part 3
Algebra Play — part 4
Algebra Play — part 5
Proportions as Special Linear Equations: y = mx
Describing the Link Between Arm Span and Height with a Linear Equation
Geometry 29 classes
What Makes a Figure a Quadrilateral, and What Does Not
4.1 Rectangles and Squares, and the Carpenter's Problem
Deduction 1: Why the Diagonals of a Rectangle Are Equal
Deduction 2: Why the Diagonals Bisect Each Other
Deduction 3: A 60 Degree Angle Between the Diagonals Still Gives a Rectangle
The General Proof: Any Angle x Between Equal Bisecting Diagonals
Carpenters, Farmers, and the Difference Between a Conjecture and a Proof
Deduction 4: Three Definitions of a Rectangle, and Its Four Properties
A Special Rectangle: The Square, and the First Venn Diagram
Deduction 5: The Diagonals of a Square Meet at Right Angles
Figure it Out: Angles in Rectangles, and Building One from Two Sticks
4.2 Angles in a Quadrilateral: Why They Always Add to 360 Degrees
4.3 Parallelograms: Constructing One from 4 cm, 5 cm and 30 Degrees
Deduction 6: The Angles of a Parallelogram
Deduction 7: The Opposite Sides of a Parallelogram Are Equal
Deduction 8: The Diagonals of a Parallelogram Bisect Each Other
4.4 The Rhombus: Constructing One, and Deduction 9 on Its Angles
Why Every Rhombus Is a Parallelogram, and Where the Square Sits
Deduction 10, and Figure it Out on Parallelograms and Rhombuses
4.5 Playing with Quadrilaterals: The Geoboard, and Joining Two Triangles
Joining Scalene Triangles, and 4.6 The Kite
The Trapezium, and Proving the Base Angles of an Isosceles One Equal
Figure it Out: Kites, Trapeziums, a Venn Diagram and Two Rectangles
Figure it Out Continued: Four Equal Sides, Opposite Sides Equal, and Seven True-or-False Claims
The SUMMARY: Five Quadrilaterals, Their Definitions and the Full Venn Diagram
Which Quad? Folding a Sheet Into Creases
Checking Your Own Work: Reading the Book's Answer Key
Constructing Quadrilaterals from Given Sides, Angles and Diagonals
Exterior Angle of a Triangle and the Angle Sum Property
Mensuration 32 classes
Area — part 1
Area — part 2
Area — part 3
Area — part 4
Area — part 5
Area — part 6
Area — part 7
Area — part 8
Area — part 9
6.1 Perimeter, and the Ratio That Stays Fixed
6.4 The Length of an Arc of a Circle
6.4 A Closer Look at a 400 m Athletics Track
6.6 and 6.7 Area of a Rectangle and of a Parallelogram
6.8 Area of a Triangle: Two Ways to the Formula
6.10 Why the Ratio C Squared to A Is the Same for All Circles
6.10.1 The Area of a Sector, and What a Segment Is
Perimeter and Area — part 1
Perimeter and Area — part 2
Perimeter and Area — part 3
Perimeter and Area — part 4
Perimeter and Area — part 5
Perimeter and Area — part 6
Perimeter and Area — part 7
Perimeter and Area — part 8
Perimeter and Area — part 9
Perimeter and Area — part 10
12.1 Key Concepts and Multiple Choice Practice
12.2 Short Answer Practice
12.3 Long Answer Practice
Area of a Trapezium by Splitting It into Triangles
Area of Polygons by Dividing Them into Known Shapes
Surface Area and Volume of a Cuboid and a Cube
Data Handling 37 classes
13.1 Introduction, and the Mean Formula Recalled
Sigma Notation and Example 1: The Mean of Ungrouped Data
Grouping the Data: Class Intervals and the Class Mark
The Direct Method, and Why the Two Answers Differ
The Assumed Mean: Choosing a and Finding the Deviations
Proving That the Mean Is a Plus the Mean Deviation
The Step-Deviation Method
Example 2: All Three Methods on One Table
Example 3: Unequal Class Sizes and Large Values
Exercise 13.1 Questions 1 to 3
Exercise 13.1 Questions 4 to 6
Exercise 13.1 Questions 7 to 9
13.3 Mode of Grouped Data: Example 4 and the Modal Class
Example 5: The Mode of Family Size
Example 6: Mode and Mean Compared
Exercise 13.2 Questions 1 to 3
Exercise 13.2 Questions 4 to 6
13.4 Median of Grouped Data: Ungrouped Median and Cumulative Frequency
The Two Kinds of Cumulative Frequency Distribution
The Median Class and the Median Formula
Example 7: Median Height from a 'Less Than' Table
Example 8: Finding Missing Frequencies from a Given Median
Which Measure Is Best Suited, and the Empirical Relationship
Exercise 13.3 Questions 1 to 4
Exercise 13.3 Questions 5 to 7
13.5 Summary and the Note to the Reader
Tales by Dots and Lines — part 1
Tales by Dots and Lines — part 2
Tales by Dots and Lines — part 3
Data Handling and Presentation — part 9
Data Handling and Presentation — part 16
Data Handling and Presentation — part 1
Data Handling and Presentation — part 6
13.1 Introduction
13.4 Median of Grouped Data
Reading and Interpreting Pie Charts
Chance and Probability: Outcomes of a Simple Experiment
10
Performing Arts
8 chapters
LAPT Schools
Performing Arts
ICSE Class 8
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Source: CISCE Curriculum for Performing Arts, Classes VI-VIII, Performing Arts (cisce.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2.-Performing-Arts-VI-VIII.pdf). The Council does not prescribe textbooks for Classes I-VIII; this is the Council's own curriculum.
Sound, Voice and Speech 11 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
Activity 1.5: Speaking Without Language - Gibberish, Basic and Advanced
Circle Time, and the Plays Recommended for Reading
Good Speech Is a Life Skill: Key Takeaways and the Chapter Rubric
Basic Terms: Sangeet, Dhwani, Nada, Shruti, Swara, Saptak, Alankar, Thaat, Jati
Basic Terms of Sangeet, Nada, Swar and Thaat
Space 6 classes
What Space Means in Dance, Theatre and Music
Personal Space and General Space
Levels, Directions and Pathways in Movement
Stage Space and Stage Areas
Silence and the Space Between Notes
Using Space to Build a Scene
Rhythm 8 classes
Music and your Emotions — part 6
The Three Elements of Music, and Activity 5.1: Extending Your Range
Activity 5.4: Sanskrit Verses and Rhythm - Anushtup Chhand
Activity 5.5: Konnakkol in Adi Tala, at Three Speeds
Activity 5.6: Swaras in Adi Tala, and the Tabla Patterns of Hindustani Music
Activity 5.7: The Saraswati Paran, and Activity 5.8: Ek Gun to Chaugun
Finding Rhythm in the Heartbeat, Breath and Daily Life
Rhythm in Theatre and in Dance Movement
Body Movement 8 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
The Kati: Twisting, Side-to-Side and Back-and-Front Hip Movements
Circular Hip Movement, and Activity 12.1: Dance with Hip Movements
Choreography from Stage to Screen, Activity 12.3: My Creative Dance, and the Chapter 12 Rubric
Movement as Non-verbal Communication and Its Place in Ritual and Prayer
Composition 6 classes
What Composition Means in the Performing Arts
Composing a Scene: Unity of Time, Space and Action
Entries, Exits and the Flow of a Scene
Composition in Dance: Formations and Patterns
Composition in Music: Arranging Notes and Phrases
Creating a Group Composition
Art Vocabulary 6 classes
Why Art Vocabulary Matters
Words and Terms of Theatre
Words and Terms of Dance
Words and Terms of Music
Using the Right Words to Describe a Performance
Word Games to Remember Art Terms
Performance 7 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
The Chapter 9 Rubric and the Music Section's Summative Assessment
The Grand Finale
Art Appreciation 8 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
Activity 4.2: Watch and Reflect - Reviewing Two Photographs
The Chapter Assessment and the Year's Summative Assessment
Appreciating Dance and Music Performances: Looking and Listening
11
Physical Education
2 chapters
LAPT Schools
Physical Education
ICSE Class 8
Physical EducationLAPT Books · ICSE Class 8 All books of this class ›
Source: CISCE Curriculum for Physical Education, Classes VI-VIII, Physical Education (cisce.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/4.-Physical-Education-VI-VIII.pdf). The Council does not prescribe textbooks for Classes I-VIII; this is the Council's own curriculum.
Physical Fitness Components 8 classes
Health-related Fitness and its Five Components
Skill-related Fitness: The Six Components
Isometric Strength, and the Three Printed Exercises
2.2 Explore the Five Components of Physical Fitness
2.3 Assessing Flexibility: Techniques and Benefits
2.4 Measuring Cardiovascular Endurance: Methods and Protocols
2.5 Evaluating Strength: Assessment Tools and Exercises
1.3 Identify Major Components of Physical Fitness
Games/Sports skills 7 classes
Fundamental Movement Skills: Running, Jumping and Throwing
Football: Passing, Dribbling and Shooting
Basketball: Dribbling, Passing and Shooting
Cricket: Batting, Bowling and Fielding Skills
Volleyball: Serving, Passing and Spiking
Kho-Kho and Kabaddi: Basic Skills and Rules
Fair Play and Teamwork in Games
12
Physics
8 chapters
LAPT Schools
Physics
ICSE Class 8
PhysicsLAPT Books · ICSE Class 8 All books of this class ›
Source: CISCE Curriculum for Upper Primary Classes (VI-VIII), First Edition November 2016, Physics (cisce.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UpperPrimary.pdf, PDF pp.205-236). The Council does not prescribe textbooks for Classes I-VIII; this is the Council's own curriculum.
Matter 21 classes
Probe and Ponder: Piling Sand, Holding Water, and Whether Air Has Weight
From Mountain Rock to Grains of Sand, and Activity 7.1: Grinding a Stick of Chalk (Fig. 7.1)
Grinding Without End: What a Constituent Particle Is
Activity 7.2: Where the Sugar Goes (Fig. 7.2), and Interparticle Spaces
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
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
7.4 Activity 7.8: Potassium Permanganate Spreading Through Water (Fig. 7.13)
Think Like a Scientist: Hot, Room-Temperature and Ice-Cold Water
Activity 7.9: An Incense Stick in the Corner of a Room (Fig. 7.14), and How Soap Lifts Oil (Fig. 7.15)
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)
Keep the Curiosity Alive: The Camphor, the Chair With No Particles, and the Candle of Fig. 7.16
Discover, Design, and Debate: The Balloon on a Bottle, Clay-Ball Models, and Atoms and Molecules
Physical Quantities and Measurement 18 classes
9.4 Why Objects Float or Sink, and 9.5 What Density Means
The Units of Density, and What Relative Density Means
9.5.1 Measuring Mass: Activity 9.3, the Tare Button, and Mass Against Weight
Measuring Volume: Units, the Measuring Cylinder, and Activity 9.4 Begins
Activity 9.4: The Least Count of a Cylinder, and Activity 9.5: Reading the Meniscus
Activity 9.6: Volume by l × w × h, and the Problem of an Irregular Stone
Activity 9.7: Volume by Displacement, Table 9.2, and the Density of a Stone
9.5.3 Pressure and Density, Why Ice Floats, and the Egg That Sinks
Measurement of Length and Motion — part 1
Measurement of Length and Motion — part 3
Measurement of Length and Motion — part 4
Measurement of Length and Motion — part 7
Measurement of Length and Motion — part 8
1.1 Introduction: What is Measurement?
1.2 Different Systems of Units
1.3. Need for a Common System of Units
1.4. International System of Units (SI)
1.5 Conversion of Units between different Systems
Force and Pressure 24 classes
Sonali and Ragini's Cycle Ride, 5.1 What Is a Force? and Activity 5.1 (Fig. 5.1)
5.2 What a Force Can Do: Activity 5.2, Table 5.1 and the Five Effects (Fig. 5.2)
5.3 A Force Needs Two Objects: the Newton, and Why a Resting Object Is Not Force-Free
5.4.1 Contact Forces and Muscular Force: Fig. 5.3, Fig. 5.4, and the Muscles Inside You
The Puzzle of the Rolling Ball, and Activity 5.3: Finding the Hidden Force (Fig. 5.5)
What Friction Is, and the Hidden Irregularities of Fig. 5.6
Activity 5.4: The Same Push on Glass, Cloth, Wood, Tile and Sand - and Friction in Air and Water
5.4.2 Non-Contact Forces: Magnetic Force and the Floating Ring Magnet of Activity 5.5 (Fig. 5.7)
Gravitational Force: Activity 5.8, the Ball Thrown Harder, and Fig. 5.10
Gravity Defined, Vertical Motion in Fig. 5.11, and 5.5 What Weight Means
Mass and Weight: What Stays the Same, What Changes, and the Table of Five Worlds
5.6 Floating and Sinking, the Mug That Feels Lighter, and Pumice - the Rock That Floats
Swirling Leaves and Two Identical Bags: 6.1 Pressure as Force Divided by Area (Fig. 6.1)
The Bucket Handle (Fig. 6.2), the Cloth Ring (Fig. 6.3), the Pascal, and a Worked Calculation
Table 6.1: The Nail, the Knife, and Why a Smaller Area Makes a Task Easier
Why Overhead Tanks Sit High (Fig. 6.4), and Activity 6.1: Two Pipes of Different Width (Fig. 6.5)
Fig. 6.6: More Water, Bigger Bulge - Pressure Depends on the Height of the Column
Activity 6.2: Four Holes in a Bottle (Fig. 6.7), and Why Liquids Press in All Directions
Why a Dam Is Broader at Its Base (Fig. 6.8), and 6.2 the Atmosphere Above Us
Activity 6.3: A Paper Plate Under Two Sheets (Fig. 6.9), Atmospheric Pressure, and the Balloon (Fig. 6.10)
Activity 6.4: The Rubber Sucker (Fig. 6.11), 2250 Newton, and Why We Are Not Crushed
3.3 Turning Forces (Moment of Force/Torque)
Forces, Pressure, and Why a Pressure Difference Becomes a Cyclone
Turning Forces: What Is Torque?
Energy 6 classes
Forms of Energy
Kinetic Energy
Potential Energy: Energy That Is Stored
Gravitational Potential Energy
Conservation of Mechanical Energy
8.1.1 A Simple Pendulum: Oscillation, Mean Position and Time Period (Fig. 8.7)
Light Energy 16 classes
9.1 Reflection of Light and the Laws of Reflection
9.2 Spherical Mirrors: Concave, Convex and the Pole
Centre of Curvature, Principal Axis and Focal Length
9.2.1 Image Formation by a Concave Mirror
9.2.2 Representing Images Using Ray Diagrams
Uses of Concave Mirrors, and Image Formation by a Convex Mirror
Uses of Convex Mirrors: A Wider Field of View
9.3 Refraction of Light: Why a Pencil Looks Bent
9.3.1 Refraction Through a Rectangular Glass Slab
9.3.2 The Refractive Index
9.3.3 Lenses: Convex, Concave and Their Terminology
Finding a Lens's Focus: the Burning-Paper Activity
9.3.4 and 9.3.5 Image Formation by Lenses, and Ray Diagrams
10.3 Refraction of Light Through a Prism
10.4 Dispersion of White Light by a Glass Prism, and the Rainbow
Experiment 40: To Trace the Path of a Ray of Light Through a Rectangular Glass Slab and Measure the Angle of Incidence, Refraction and Emergence
Heat Transfer 13 classes
7.1 Conduction: Activity 7.1 and the Four Pins on a Metal Strip (Fig. 7.1)
Why Pin I Falls First: Conduction Defined, and Table 7.2 of Conductors
Trapped Air: Woollen Clothes, Two Thin Blankets and Hollow Bricks (Fig. 7.2)
Activity 7.2: The Rising Paper Cup, the Balloon in the Sun, and Smoke (Figs. 7.3b, 7.4)
Activity 7.3: The Coloured Streak and Convection, and 7.2.1 Activity 7.4 (Figs. 7.5b, 7.6)
Table 7.4: Soil Heats and Cools Faster Than Water, and the Sea Breeze (Fig. 7.7a)
The Land Breeze, and 7.3 Radiation: Light and Dark Clothes (Fig. 7.7b)
All Three at Once: Heating Water in a Pan, Let Us Wrap Up, and the Bukhari (Fig. 7.8)
A Journey through States of Water — part 2
A Journey through States of Water — part 3
A Journey through States of Water — part 6
A Journey through States of Water — part 7
A Journey through States of Water — part 9
Sound 18 classes
Sound Is Produced by Vibrations
The Tuning Fork, and Sound Through Solids and Liquids
Sound Cannot Travel Through a Vacuum
Compressions, Rarefactions and the Sound Wave
Longitudinal Waves and Mechanical Waves
Sound Carries Energy
Graphical Representation of a Sound Wave
Wavelength, Frequency and Time Period
Amplitude and Intensity
The Speed of Sound
Working with the Speed of Sound
Pitch and the Audible Range
Loudness, Intensity and Noise
Tone, Timbre and Musical Notes
Reflection of Sound and Echo
Reverberation and Acoustic Design
Ultrasonic and Infrasonic Waves and Their Uses
Echolocation and Sonar
Electricity 19 classes
11.1 Electric Current and Circuit
11.2 Electric Potential and Potential Difference
11.3 Circuit Diagrams and Their Symbols
11.4 Ohm's Law
11.7 Heating Effect of Electric Current, and Joule's Law
Why Some Wires Get Hot and Others Do Not
11.7.1 Practical Applications of the Heating Effect
11.8 Electric Power, and the Unit of Electrical Energy
3.2.1 Electric Cell and 3.2.2 Battery: Activities 3.2 and 3.3 (Figs. 3.2, 3.3)
3.2.3 The Incandescent Lamp and its Filament: Activity 3.4 (Fig. 3.4)
The LED Lamp: Activity 3.5 and Why One Wire Is Longer (Figs. 3.5, 3.6)
3.2.5 An Electrical Circuit: Why Arrangements 1 and 6 Glow (Fig. 3.9)
3.2.6 Electric Switch: Activities 3.8 and 3.9, Open and Closed Circuits (Figs. 3.11, 3.12)
3.3 Circuit Diagrams: The Seven Symbols of Table 3.2
Activity 3.11: Building a Conduction Tester and Filling Table 3.3 (Fig. 3.15)
4.2 Does a Current Carrying Wire Get Hot? Activity 4.5 and the Nichrome Wire (Fig. 4.5)
Think Like a Scientist: Two Cells Instead of One, and What the Heat Depends On
The Incandescent Lamp, the Heating Element, and Six Household Appliances (Fig. 4.6)
When the Heating Effect Becomes a Danger: Melted Plugs, Rated Wires, and the Steel Furnace
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Sanskrit
2 chapters
Source: CISCE Curriculum for Sanskrit, Classes V-VIII, Sanskrit (cisce.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/5.-Sanskrit-V-VIII1.pdf). The Council does not prescribe textbooks for Classes I-VIII; this is the Council's own curriculum.
श्रवण, भाषण एवं पठन 5 classes
Listening to Sanskrit Shlokas and Repeating Them Correctly
Speaking Simple Sanskrit Sentences in Everyday Conversation
Clear Pronunciation of Sanskrit Sounds and Conjunct Letters
Reading a Short Sanskrit Passage Aloud with Correct Pauses
Understanding the Meaning of a Sanskrit Passage and Answering Questions
भाषा - लेखन 5 classes
Writing Sanskrit Words and Sentences in Devanagari Script Correctly
Nouns and Verbs in Sanskrit Sentences: Forming Simple Statements
Joining Words with Sandhi in Writing
Writing a Short Paragraph in Sanskrit on a Familiar Topic
Translating Simple Sentences Between Sanskrit and English
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