Subject: SCIENCE

Session: 2023 - 24
Learning Goals:
● To develop scientific temper and scientific thinking.
● To understand the nature of scientific knowledge i.e., testable, unified, developmental, and creative.
● To enhance process skills of science related experiments (observation, research/ investigations, hypothesis formulation, testing, collecting, analyzing
and interpreting data)
● To critically think and evaluate alternative explanations for observations thereby reflecting on their own thinking.
● To inculcate appreciation for historical aspects of the evolution of science.
● To encourage students to display sensitivity towards environmental concerns.
● To respect human dignity and rights, gender equality, values of honesty, integrity, cooperation and concern for life.

Textbooks: SCIENCE, TEXTBOOK FOR CLASS VII, NCERT.

References:
Detailed Syllabus:

No. of Periods
Month Chapter / Sub-Topics Activities
T A GA Total Topic

● Introduction: Nutrition and nutrients.

● Modes of nutrition: Autotrophic and Heterotrophic.
Chapter 1: ● Photosynthesis: Process, role of chlorophyll, sun as ● To grow fungi on bread to study
1 2 1 13 Nutrition in ultimate source of energy. saprotrophic mode of nutrition.
MARCH 0 Plants ● Synthesis of plant food other than carbohydrates. Activity:
● Other modes of reproduction in plants: parasitic, {VII_1.1}
insectivorous, saprophytic, symbiosis.
● How nutrients are replenished in soil: role of rhizobium.

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 ● Different ways of taking food. ● To study the structure of amoeba.
APRIL Chapter 2: ● Digestion in Humans: organs and associated glands. { VII_2.2}
1 1 0 12 Nutrition in ● Digestion in grass eating animals: ruminants.
1 Animals ● Feeding and digestion in Amoeba.

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APRIL / 0 4 2 6 Chapter 3: IPBL 1 – Weaving Together

MAY Fiber to Only IPBL activities to be done. Activity 1- SDG 14,15 Case Study
Fabric. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
( Only for v=NXTIfcfzSnE
Integrated
 Make a project report on how
activities )
textile industries cause air and
water pollution and depletion of
aquatic flora and fauna.
(Individual)
OR
Activity 2- SDG- 3 Case Study:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=V1XHea82Mog
 Prepare a Fact file:
 Find out the major diseases
caused in workers of Textile
(Sericulture and wool) Industries.
List its causes and symptoms.
(Paste pictures) (Individual)

● Introduction: Feeling hot or cold. ● To show convection in water

● Measuring Temperature: Device used viz clinical and using colors and glitters.
laboratory thermometer, reading and proper handling Activity: {VII_4.2(Act.1)}
MAY 7 1 1 9 Chapter 4: ● Transfer of heat: conduction, convection, radiation, and its
Heat applications; sea breeze and land breeze; conductors and
 insulators.
● Kind of clothes we wear in summers and winters.

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● Introduction: Acid, bases and salts in daily life.

● Acids and bases: What makes a substance an acid or a
base.
● Natural Indicators: litmus, turmeric, china rose solution. ● To prepare a card using a
JULY 8 1 1 10 Chapter 5: ● Other(chemical/synthetic) indicators: phenolphthalein. turmeric indicator.
Acids, Bases, ● Neutralization reaction: concept of salt formation Activity: {VII_5.1(Act3)}
and salts ● Neutralization in everyday life: Treatment of indigestion,
ant sting, soil, factory waste.

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 Introduction: Changes in everyday life.  To study and classify changes as

JULY 9 1 1 11 Chapter  Physical change: characteristics, examples from daily life. physical and chemical.
6:Physical  Chemical changes: characteristics.
and Chemical  Rusting: definition, cause and prevention. {Activity: VII_6.1}
changes IPBL 2 – Change: - the only constant
 Crystallization
(Individual Activities)
Activity 1 – Change is inevitable. Rusting is
one such irreversible change. Discuss &
depict the old and new ways of preventing
rusting with the help of
Poster/Brochure/Infographic.

Activity 2 - Research about any 2 bio

chemical changes and prepare one flashcard
on each.

JULY/ 6 1 1 8 Chapter 17:  Introduction: Forest as an important natural resource.  Visit a forest or park in your
AUGUST Forest: Our  Various components of forest & their interdependence neighbourhood. List the
 Lifeline  Role of forest in preventing soil erosion, noise pollution etc. characteristics of trees that you
 Changing face of forest observe.
 Influence of forest in climate, water cycle & air quality. Activity: {VII_17.2}

● Why do we respire? Breathing and respiration, aerobic and

anaerobic respiration.
● Breathing: inhalation and exhalation, breathing rate.
AUGUST 1 1 1 13 Chapter 10: ● Mechanism of breathing: role of rib cage, chest cavity and ● To show the mechanism of
1 Respiration in diaphragm. breathing with the help of a
Organisms ● What do we breathe out? % of O2 andCO2 in inhaled and model.
exhaled breath. Activity: {VII_10.1(Act.1&2)}
REVISION ● Breathing in other animals: breathing organs in cockroach,
TERM 1 earthworm and fish.
● Do plants also respire?

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● All the topics and activities done till September will be

included in the first term exams.

SEPTEMBE 20 TERM 1 ● REVISION OF TERM-1 EXAM

R EXAMS ● TERM 1 EXAMS

● Introduction: Importance of transportation of substances

like food and respiratory gases.
● Human circulatory system: Blood composition, blood
vessels, heart structure and heartbeat, stethoscope. ● To know your heart.(To study the
OCTOBER 1 1 1 14 Chapter 11: ● Excretory system: Human excretory system, excretory effect of physical activity on the
2 Transportatio products in aquatic and land animals. pulse rate)
n in Animals ● Transport of substance in plants: Transport of water and {Activity: VII_11.1}
and Plants minerals through vascular tissues and role of transpiration
in creating a suction pull.

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 Only IPBL activities to be done. IPBL : HOW READY ARE WE?

IPBL 3 - WHIFF OF FRESH AIR OR AN

Chapter 8: ILL-TEMPERED BEAST
OCTOBER/ Wind, ACTIVITY 1 - Managing Inevitable
NOVEMBE 0 5 2 7 Storms and Natural Disasters (Group Activity)
R Cyclones Visit The page for Reference
( Only for https://www.nationalgeographic.org/
integrated article/climatologist-solves-weathers-
activities ) greatest-mysteries/?ar_a=1&ar_r=3

● Introduction: Importance of reproduction.

NOVEMBE Chapter 12: ● Modes of reproduction (asexual: vegetative propagation, ● Growing potatoes without seeds.
R 8 1 1 10 Reproduction budding, fragmentation, spore formation) {Activity: VII_12.1}(activity 1)
in Plants ● Sexual reproduction: unisexual and bisexual flowers,
gametes, pollination, fertilization.
● Fruits and seed formation and seed dispersal:
(agents of seed dispersal and its importance).

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● Introduction: Symbols of components of electric circuits.

Chapter 14: ● Heating effect of electric current: its application. ● To make an electromagnet.
NOVEMBE 6 1 1 8 Electric ● Magnetic effect of electric current, electromagnet and its {Activity VII_14.1}(act.1)
R/ Current and uses.
DECEMBE its Effects Electric bell: construction and working.
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● Introduction: light travels in a straight line. ● To understand the meaning of

● Reflection of light: real and virtual image, image properties diverging and converging
DECEMBE 6 1 1 8 Chapter 15: in case of plane mirror. surfaces.
R Light ● Spherical mirrors: image properties in case of concave and {Activity: VII_15.2}
 convex mirrors.
● Lenses: image properties in case of concave and convex
lens.
● Sunlight: white or colored.
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● Introduction: Motion as change in position with respect to a

stationary object. To plot distance time graph {VII_13.2
● Slow and fast motion. ACT.1}
DECEMBE 6 1 1 8 Chapter 13: ● Measurement of speed: average speed, its unit; device
R Motion and speedometer and odometer.
Time ● Measurement of time: Simple pendulum, oscillatory
motion, unit of time; ancient time measuring device.
● Distance-Time graph: plotting bar and line graphs.
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DECEMBE 0 6 2 8 Chapter 16: Only IPBL activities to be done. IPBL 4 – WATER: THE PLANET
R/ Water – A HEALER
JANUARY Precious
Resource  ACTIVITY 1- Calculate your
(Only for water footprint
integrated OR
activities) Xeriscape Gardening (Individual
Activity)
 ACTIVITY 2 - Catching
rainwater-traditional methods
OR
Prepare a report on the water
management project (Group Activity)

● Introduction: What is wastewater, water our lifeline.

JANUARY 1 1 1 13 Chapter 18: ● What is Sewage? ● Virtual lab: to show treatment of
1 Wastewater ● Water freshens up: An eventful journey. wastewater in WWTP.
Story Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP)
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January - Revision for ● All the topics and activities done till January in term -II will
February final term be included in the final exams.
exams.

The NCERT chapters which are removed from the course as per reduced syllabus:-

 TERM 1: - Ch – 7 Weather, Climate & Adaptation

Ch – 3 Fibre to Fabric
Ch –8 Winds, Storms & Cyclones
 TERM 2: - Ch – 9 Soil
Ch- 16 Water: A Precious Resource

The NCERT chapters which are added to the course: -

 Chapter 17: Forest :Our Lifeline .