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Class 6

Social Science: Exploring Society

85 lessons in 14 chapters, explained in plain words.

Locating Places on the Earth

  1. What a map is
  2. Scale
  3. Directions and symbols
  4. Mapping a round Earth
  5. Coordinates
  6. Latitude
  7. Longitude
  8. Time zones

Oceans and Continents

  1. The blue planet
  2. Water and land, shared out
  3. The five oceans
  4. Oceans and disasters
  5. Counting the continents
  6. Islands
  7. Oceans and life

Landforms and Life

  1. What a landform is
  2. Mountains
  3. Ranges, and young and old mountains
  4. The mountain environment
  5. Life in the mountains
  6. Plateaus
  7. Plains
  8. Deserts, and the five tiṇais

Timeline and Sources of History

  1. Who digs up the past
  2. CE and BCE
  3. Timelines, centuries and millenniums
  4. Sources of history
  5. The beginnings of human history
  6. The first crops
  7. From hamlets to towns

India, That Is Bharat

  1. A land with many names
  2. Sapta Sindhava, and the regions of the Mahābhārata
  3. Bhāratavarṣha and Jambudvīpa
  4. Bhārata
  5. How foreigners named India

The Beginnings of Indian Civilisation

  1. What a civilisation is
  2. From village to city
  3. The Sarasvatī River
  4. Town-planning
  5. Water management
  6. What the Harappans ate
  7. A brisk trade
  8. The end, or a new beginning?

India's Cultural Roots

  1. Roots and branches
  2. What the Vedas are
  3. Vedic society
  4. The Upaniṣhads and Vedanta
  5. Three who asked questions
  6. Buddhism
  7. Jainism
  8. Stories, other schools, and the common trunk
  9. Folk and tribal roots

Unity in Diversity, or 'Many in the One'

  1. A rich diversity
  2. Food for all
  3. Textiles and clothing
  4. Festivals galore
  5. An epic spread

Family and Community

  1. Family
  2. Roles and responsibilities
  3. Tenzing's family
  4. Community
  5. Communities in the city

Grassroots Democracy — Part 1: Governance

  1. Why rules exist
  2. Three organs of government
  3. Three levels of government
  4. Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
  5. Democracy

Grassroots Democracy — Part 2: Local Government in Rural Areas

  1. A village and its needs
  2. The Panchayati Raj system
  3. Gram Panchayat and Gram Sabha
  4. Panchayats that listen to children
  5. Panchayat Samiti, Zila Parishad and an old idea

Grassroots Democracy — Part 3: Local Government in Urban Areas

  1. The whole pyramid
  2. Urban local bodies and wards
  3. Which body a city gets
  4. Sameer and Anita

The Value of Work

  1. Economic and non-economic activities
  2. Ways of being paid
  3. Value addition
  4. Why non-economic work matters

Economic Activities Around Us

  1. Sorting work into sectors
  2. The primary sector
  3. The secondary sector
  4. The tertiary sector
  5. How the three sectors hold together