CORE SOCIAL SCIENCE

FOR EXCELLENCE IN LIFE

COURSE CODE COURSE TITLE L T P C
BEE104 CORE SOCIAL SCIENCES 4 0 0 4

COURSE OUTCOMES

  • CO1: Understanding the concept and nature of social science
  • CO2: Analysing the forms of government, administration and policies of Indian government
  • CO3: Evaluating the relationship between human life, space and Resources
  • CO4: Describing the interaction of groups and their impact on social change

COURSE CONTENT

Unit I – Nature of Social Science
 Meaning, Definition, Nature, scope and importance of History, Geography, Civics, Sociology and Economics
 Role of Social Sciences in the development of learners
 Significance of perspective and context in the study of social sciences (Exemplars: 1857, Secularism, Communalism)

Unit II – Relationship between human experiences and growth of institutions
Monarchy, Aristocracy, Imperialism, Fascism, Nationalism, Internationalism
 Democracy and citizenship

Unit III – Relationship between human life, space and Resources
 Human natural vegetation, minerals, resources and sources of power, animal resources of India, soil resources
 Movement from a subsistent economy to a surplus economy
 Demography and distribution of wealth in the economy, spatial interaction

Unit IV – Study of Relationships and Interactions of people
 Meaning and importance of Family, Community, Peer Group, Culture
 Social Stratification, Social Change




CORE NATURAL SCIENCE

COURSE CODE

 

COURSE TITLE

 

L

T

P

C

BEE 105

 

CORE NATURAL SCIENCES

 

4

0

0

4

 

 

COURSE OUTCOMES

CO1: Defining and recognize the concept, relation, classification, property, law of natural phenomenon.

CO2: Computing length, mass and time, density, pressure, work and energy; weight; gravitation; heal and temperature;

CO3: Explaining the states of matter; properties of magnets; electricity; refraction and dispersion.

CO4: Classifying and explaining living and non-living; classification of living world; germination of seeds; life processes of various phenomenon of nature, as respiration, digestion, reproduction, photosynthesis, transportation and interdependence of plants and animals.

 

UNIT-I

Matter

·         Scientific Method

·         Classification of Matter

·         Properties of matter

·         Scientific facts, concepts, and relationships

·         Scientific theories and Laws

 

UNIT-II

Measurement of Length, Mass and Time

·         Work and energy, pressure, weight

·         Falling of bodies, gravitation, heat and temperature, states of matter

·         Properties of magnet, electricity, refraction and dispersion.

 

UNIT III

Physical and Chemical Changes, Separation of Mixtures

·         Atoms and molecules

·         Metals and non-metals

·         Oxides, acids, bases and salts

·         Air and combustion, Water: hard and soft

 

UNIT IV

Living and Non-Living

·         Classification of living world

·         Germination of seeds

 

UNIT-V

         Life processes

·         Respiration

·         Digestion,

·         Reproduction,

·         Photosynthesis

·         Transportation

·         Phenomena

·         Interdependence of plants and animals

 

 

PROJECT-3 

       Not More than One from Each Area

·         P1-Natural Phenomena

·         P2 -Environment and Adaptation

·        P3-Technology

·         P4-Health                                                               

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS

·         Jennings, J. (1980). The Young Scientist Investigates. Booki DII, Oxford University Press: London.

·         Keetow, W. T. & Gould, J. L. 1986). Biological Science. W. W. Norton: New York.

·         Kulsreshta, S. P. (n.d.): Teaching of Biology, Loyal Book Depot, Meerut.

·         Nelson, R.  & Lootoian. B. (n.d.). Fundamental Concepts of Biology.John Wiley &Sons: New York.

·         Rawat, D.S. egg. Vigyan Shikshan. Agrawal Publication, Agra.                                                                                                                                                                               

·         Singh, V (n. d.): A Text Book of Botany  

·         Taylor, D. J. (n. d.).  Biological Science

·         UNESCO (1979). New UNESCO Source Book for Science Teaching. University Press (India) Ltd: India, 1979.