NCERT Class 7 Syllabus for Science

VII
CLASS VII
SCIENCE

Questions Key Concepts Resources Activities/

1. Food (Periods - 22)
Food from where
How do plants get their Autotrophic and Coleus or any other plant Need for light, green
food? heterotrophic nutrition; with variegated leaves, leaf for photosynthesis,
parasites, saprophytes; alcohol, iodine solution, kit looking at any
photosynthesis. materials. saprophyte/parasite and
noting differences from
a green plant.

Utilisation of food
How do plants and Types of nutrition, Model of human teeth, Effect of saliva on starch,
animals utilise their food? nutrition in amoeba and charts of alimentary canal, permanent slide of
human beings, Digestive types of nutrition etc., Amoeba.
for
Classes system – human, chart and model of Role play with children.
at the ruminants; types of amoeba. The story of the
Elementary teeth; link with transport stomach with a hole.
and respiration.
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2. Materials (Periods - 38)
Materials of daily use
Do some of our clothes Wool, silk – animal fibres. Samples of wool and silk; Collection of different
come from animal Process of extraction of brief account of samples of woollen and
sources? silk; associated health silkwor m rearing and silk cloth. Activities to
Which are these animals? problems. sheep breeding. differentiate natural silk
Who rears them? and wool from artificial
Which parts of the animals fibres.
yield the yarn? How is the Discussion.
yarn extracted?
What kinds of clothes help Heat flow; temperature. Potassium permanganate, Experiment to show that
us to keep warm? metal strip or rod, wax, ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ are relative.
What is heat? common pins, spirit lamp, Experiments to show
What is the meaning of matches, tumblers, conduction, convection
‘cool’/‘cold’ and ‘warm’ ‘hot’? Thermometer etc. and radiation.