Telangana Class 8 Syllabus Social Studies

Class – VIII

Theme I : Diversity on the Earth

Lesson /
Chapter Lesson Name Key Concepts
No.

Story of map& Evaluation of maps – Sumarian, Babylonian,
Hecataeus, Al Idrsi Maps – Model of the World according to
Bible, Ptolemy, Gerardus Mercator Maps

Making of maps in India

Colonisation, explorations, Military use and Map making

Map projections
Reading and Analysis of
Use of Maps in out Times
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Maps
Make a Population Maps

Conventional Maps, Symbols, colours and patterns

Analysis of contour maps

Thematic maps (from the following list: physical political
agriculture temperature rainfall population industry cities )

Atlas


Insolation:- Explanation – Importance of solar energy

Impact of distribution of Sun Rays angle of sunrays, – Axis
of rotation, duration of day time – altitude – slope of the land
– land water distribution – cloud coverage etc.

Green houses

Temperature and measuring temperature: - using thermo
2 Energy from the Sun
meter – minimum maximum temperature, daily, monthly,
seasonal and annual average – graphs, focus on below zero
temperature, examples of different locations – Coastal,
Mountain, and Inland.

Temperature maps


Seasons – why there are seasons – formation of seasons –
What causes seasons

Rotation and Revolution – impacts
Earth Movements and
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Activities using globe to explain rotation and revolution of
Seasons
the earth.

Temperature belts on the Earth


Description of polar / tundra region- Life in cold climate –
4 The Polar Regions changes in modern times. (example of life in Canadian or
European or Asian Tundra)

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Seasons in Tundra

Vegetation

Group life

Hunting and fishing

Religious beliefs


Recall from 6&7 classes

Description- distribution types

Status of forests in Telangana Tribal use of forests
Forests : Using and
Forest products – Economic importance and trade
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Protecting Them
De-forestation – forest Conservation (social forestry)-
correlate with thematic maps

Forest Rights Act – 2006


Minerals:- Description – distribution, economic important

Mineral Resources of Telangana

Mining :- Description – distribution-two case studies – open
6 Minerals and Mining cast (Sathupally) – underground mining (Singareni Collieries)

Mining and Environment:- Effects and Protection

Accidents and security

Theme II. Production, Exchange and Livelihoods
• Understand Barter system and need for money–
eg: from contemporary scenario also
• Evolution of Money – paper money – plastic money (why
the form changes)
7 Money and Banking • Banking system – Deposits (logic of having particular, on
demand you will get it, types of account, transaction, –
Bank give money to buyer as financial intermediary –
Loans - How bank works Cheque: place where bank meet –
Internet Banking
• Changes in Technology
• Technological changes in Agriculture
• Impact of Technology
Impact of Technology on • Technology and Industry
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Livelihoods • Case study drawing from – Agriculture – Harvester –
Industry – recap
• Technological changes in Service Sector
• New Skills and New Jobs
• Why do we Government in welfare context (in the context
Public Health and the
9 of basic needs – food water shelter)
Government
• Meaning of Health - difference from illness

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• Healthcare Services – Public Health Services – Private
Health Services
• Health Insurance – Health Care and Equality
• Basic public facilities
• Status of health in Telangana – nutrition, safe drinking
water (morbidity, life expectancy)
• What should be done – PHC communicable disease
(Role of govt. in welfare- Basic needs - Health as a concept -
Status of health in Telangana - Case study of PHC- Few govt
schemes)
Theme III Political Systems and Governance
• Zamindars and Peasants in Mughal Times
• Permanent Settlement – Changes Introduced by the British
Landlords and Tenants • The Ryotwari System - Developmental Activities
10 under the British and the • Commercialisation and Money Lenders
Nizam • Doras and Peasants of Hyderabad State
• Famines
• The Peasant Movements
• National Movement – Early Associations
National Movement – • The Indian National Congress : The Moderate Phase 1885-
11– A The Early Phase – 1885- 1905
1919 • Extremist Phase 1905-1920 (Swadeshi Movement)
• Impact of the First World War: 1914-1919
• Arrival of Mahatma Gandhi
• Rowlatt Act – Jalianwala Bagh Massacre
National Movement – • Non Cooperation Movement – Khilafat Agitation
11 – B The Last Phase • The Happenings of 1922-1929
1919-1947 • Civil Disobedience Movement
• Quit India Movement – 1942
• Towards Independence and Partition
• Princely State of Hyderabad
• Early years of Nationalism
• Feudal system of the State
• Language and Religion
Freedom Movement in
12 • Andhra Jana Sangham
Hyderabad State
• Andhra Maha Sabha – The Library Movement\
• Hyderabad State Congress
• The Telangana Armed Struggle (1946-1951)
• Merger with India
The Indian Constitution • The formation of Constituent Assembly
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• Debates in the Constituent Assembly

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• Aspects and philosophy of Preamble
• The System of Government
• The Houses of Parliament
• Power of Houses
Parliament and Central • Elections to the Lok Sabha
14
Government • Challenges in conducting free and fair elections
• The President and the Vice President
• The Council of Ministers and Prime Minister
• Civil and Criminal case
• Police, investigation and Judge
• Appellate Jurisdiction
Law and Justice – A
15 • Judicial system - i. Rule of Law - ii. Supremacy of Law -
Case Study
iii. Flexibility of law

Theme IV Social Organization and Inequities
• Rural Poverty at the time of Independence
• Abolition of Zamindari system
Abolition of Zamindari • Land Ceiling act in AP after Independence
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System • Boodhan Movement
• Impact of land reforms in AP
• Land Sealing Act-1972-75
• Distress in Rural Area
• Poverty as Chronic Hunger
• Why Poverty? How can it be eliminated?
• Agriculture – Source of Livelihood
17 Understanding Poverty • Other Livelihood Options – MN REGA
• Access to Affordable Food
• Social Audit in Telangana
• The Struggle towards “The Right to Life”
• Public Distribution System
• The Idea of Human Rights
• How the Movement Began
Rights Approach to
18 • Provisions Under RTI
Development
• Rights Approach to Improve the Living Conditions
Right to Education Act – 2009
Theme V. Religion and Society
• Religious and social reforms – Christian Missionary activity
Social and Religious and Oriental Scholars
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Reform Movements • Social, Religious Reforms – Basic ideas of Raja Ram
Mohan Roy, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Swami

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Vivekananda, Swami Dayananda Saraswati
• Reform and Education among Muslims – Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
• Social Reforms and Women - Widow re-marriage, Child
marriage, Women Education – Basic Ideas of Kandukuri
Veeresalingam , Savitribai Phule, Pandita Ramabai
Saraswati
• Education among Muslim Women
• Social Reforms and Caste System – Basic Ideas of Jyotiba
Phule, Narayana Guru, Bhagya Reddy Varma
• Women and Dalits in Freedom Movemnet – Gandhiji, Dr.
B.R. Ambedkar, Eshwari Bai, T.N. Sada Laxmi
• Need of Secularism
20 Understanding Secularism • What is Secularism
• Separation of Religion from the State
• Indian Secularism
Theme VI Culture and Communication
• Folk arts classical art
Performing Arts and • Different forms of Performing Arts – Burrakatha,
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Artistes in Modern Times Tholubommalata
• Bharatanatyam : Decline and Revival, Bharatanatyam today
• Evolution of film from theatre arts
• Emergence of film as a modern form of entertainment
• Film in national movement
22 Film and Print Media • Influence of film on society
• Film as an industry
• Print culture and Modern world
• Evolution of print media
• Role of Print media in National Movement
• Why cricket as become more popular than hockey and
kabaddi
• Historical development of cricket as a game in England
Sports : Nationalism and • Spread and patronise of cricket
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Commerce • Modern transformation of games.
• Commerce, media and cricket today
• Success Story
• Other Popular Games and their Status
• Understanding of Disaster Management
• Types of Disasters
• Natural Disasters
24 Disaster management
• Tsunami – What to do before, during and after Tsunami
• Drought – Impact of Drought – How to cope with Drought
– Rain Waster Harvesting – Watershed Development

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