NCERT Class 8 Syllabus for Science

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CLASS VIII
SCIENCE

Questions Key Concepts Resources Activities/

1. Food (Periods - 22)
Crop production
Crop production: How Crop production: Soil Preparing herbarium
Interaction and discussion
are different food crops preparation, selection of with local men and specimens of some crop
produced? seeds, sowing, applying women far mers about plants; collection of some
What are the various fertilizers, irrigation, far ming and far m seeds etc; preparing a
foods we get from animal weeding, harvesting and table/chart on different
practices; visit to cold
sources? storage; nitrogen fixation, irrigation practices and
storage, go- downs; visit
nitrogen cycle. to any farm/ nursery/ sources of water in
garden. different parts of India;
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looking at roots of any
legume crop for nodules, for
hand section of nodules. Classes
Micro-organisms
What living organisms do Micro organisms – useful Microscope, kit Making a lens with a bulb;
we see under a and harmful. materials; information Observation of drop of
microscope in a drop of about techniques of water, curd, other sources,
water? What helps make food preservation. bread mould, orange
curd? How does food go mould under the
bad? How do we microscope; experiment
preserve food? showing fermentation of
dough – increase in
volume (using yeast) –
collect gas in balloon, test
in lime water.

2. Materials (Periods - 26)
Materials in daily life
Are some of our clothes Synthetic clothing Sharing of prior Survey on use of synthetic
synthetic? How are they materials. knowledge, source materials.
made? Where do the raw Other synthetic materials, materials on petroleum Discussion.
materials come from? especially plastics; products.