Telangana Class 7 Syllabus Science (General)

GENERAL SCIENCE SYLLABUS
7th CLASS
1. FOOD COMPONENTS 3. ANIMAL FIBRE
" Listing out Food Components. " Story of Silk
" Essential components of food " Moth to Egg
" Confirmation of presence of Food Components. (Carbohydrates, Fats, " Cocoon to Fibre - process of reeling
Protein conformation tests) " Reeling to Weaving
" Roughages or dietary fibers and its sources. " Stores of wool
" Water " Different stages invovled in producing fabric from wool.
" Balanced diet (Shearing, Scouring, Sorting, Mealing, Dying, Carding, Spinning, Rolling
" Avoid junk food of twisting and Knitting of wool).
" HIstory of food and nutrition. " Differences between Silk and Cotton.

2. ACIDS AND BASES 4. MOTION AND TIME
" Listing out food items based on taste. " Identification of motion around us
" Making of turmeric paper - natural indicator " Motion and Rest
" Natural indicators and changes. " Relative motion
" Litmus tests to know acidic / basic nature of substance. " Uniform and Non uniform motions
" Acidic nature, basic nature " Types of motions (Translatory, Rotary, Oscillatory)
" Chemical indicators - phenophthalin, methylorange " Slow and Fast motions
" Acid rains. " Estimating times and it's units.
" Neutralization " Stop clock - measuring time
" Organic mannures. " Speed - it's units and Calculations
" Salts
" Uses of acids, basics and salts. 5. HEAT - MEASUREMENTS
" Seasons and temperature
" What is temperature?

" Heat - a form of energy " Tube light and compact fluorescent lamps
" Conversion of Energy " Electric fuses
" Heat and temperature " Miniature Circuit Breaker (MCB)
" How to measure temperature? " Electricity in our home - billing
" Types of thermometers (clinical, MMT, Digital, Laboratory)
" How to use Thermometer? 8. AIR, WINDS AND CYCLONES
" Expansion of Liquids " Air and it's influence on our daily life
" Where do we find air
6. WEATHER AND CLIMIATE " Air exerts pressure
" Prediction about Weather " Air expands on heating
" Understanding Weather Reports " Hot air is lighter than cold air
" Components of Weather " Warm air rises up
" Measuring temperature by using MMT " Effects of moving air
" Measuring rainfall by using Rain gauge " Wind - Uneven heating on the earth.
" How to know direction of wind? " How the cyclones are formed?
" What is humidity? " Factors contributing to cyclones
" Are weather conditions cyclic during the years? " Do's and Don'ts during cyclones
" What is climate? 9. REFLECTION OF LIGHT
" Climate and Life style " How light reflects after striking an object?
" Observation of light reflection
7. ELECTRICITY - CURRENT AND IT'S EFFECT " Laws of reflections, regular and irregular reflections
" Make your own cell " Angle of incidence, Angle of reflections
" Dry cell " Make your own Periscope
" Symbols of Electric components " Mirror images, Virtual images, Real images
" How to draw Circuit diagrams? " Make your own Kaleidoscope
" Series and Parallel circuits " Convex and Concave mirrors
" Heating effect of electric current " Images with Spherical mirrors

10. NUTRITION IN PLANTS " Sexual parts of a flower (Pollen grain, ovary)
" Von Helmont experiment " Pollination (Self pollination, Cross pollination)
" What is photosynthesis? " Agents of Pollination
" Exchange of air - stomata " Fertilization - Fruit - Seed
" How plants make their food? (Autotrophic Nutrition) " A Sexual reproduction (Budding, Spores)
" Other modes of Nutrition in plants (Heterotrpic Nutrition) " Vegetative reproduction
" Parasitic plants - Haustoria
" Insectivorous plants. 13. SEED DISPERSAL
" Saprophytes " Why seeds dispersed?
" Symbiosis " Different kinds of seeds
" Agents of seed dispersed (Wind, water, birds, animals, bursting of fruits
11. RESPIRATION IN ORGANISMS and number beings)
" Respiration in human beings " Seeds in fruits
" Counting of beats in a minutes
" Measuring of chest expansion 14. WATER - TOO LITTLE TO WASTE
" Measuring of air in each breath " Source of water on the earth
" Differences between exhaled and inhaled air " Water is a precious resource
" Discovery of Oxygen and Carbon dioxide " Types of impurities in sewage
" Gases in our breath " Waste water treatment
" Breathing in other animals - Fish, Frog, Cockroaches, earthworm " Diseases caused by untreated water
" Respiration in Plants and Sprouted seeds " Sewage disposing methods
" Drainage systems
12. REPRODUCTION IN PLANTS " Water conservation
" Know more about flower
" Floral parts - Thalamus, Calyx, Corolla, Androeciom, Gynoecium 15. SOIL - OUR LIFE
" Complete and Incomplete flowers " Usefulness of soil
" Unisexual and Bisexual flowers " Soil and life

" Preparation of soil life chart " People living in forests
" Soil is a good habitat " Destruction of forests
" Properties of the soil " Conservation of forests
" Types of soil
" Moisture of soil 17. CHANGES AROUND US
" Percolation rate of soil " Periodical changes.
" Substances present in soil " Physical and chemical changes.
" Horizons of soil " Changes in ice while heating.
" Soils in our village " Changes caused due to burning
" Soil and crops " Rusting of iron.
" Soil conservation " Galvanization.
" Browsing of cut vegetables and it's prevention.
16. FOREST - OUR LIFE " Changes in magnesium ribbon.
" Know about orchard " Chemical changes - reaction of copper sulphate with iron reaction of
" What is forest? vinegar with baking soda, burning of camphor.
" Diversity in forest " Crystallization - crystallization of urea, copper sulphate.
" Types of forests in our state