Book Description:
Footprints Our Past, Planet, and Society Text Book Class – 8:
Footprints,..0ur Past, Planet, and Society is an integrated social science series for classes 1—10. The series conforms to the latest curricular guidelines This highly successful series has been revised and upgraded on the basis of user feedback and latest trends in teaching—learning of the discipline,
The books for classes 6—8 follow interdisciplinary and multi—disciplinary approaches to teaching of social sciences‘ They employ project based experiential learning to acquaint young students with the basic concepts of history, geography, political science and economics in everyday life.
Key Features
• Big Idea given at the beginning of a lesson captures its key ideas.
• Innovatively designed timelines in history lessons to place events and provide a timeframe for proper understanding
• At a Glance gives the conceptual framework of a lesson as a ?ow chart.
• News Makers and History Makers showcase the important personalities
• What was Happening Elsewhere provides historical progress achieved elsewhere in the world during the same timeframe as under discussion in the lesson to help the learners develop skills of comparative analysis.
• Connect to History/Geo-Connect/Connect to the World around... link the concepts with the learners’ world.
• Be a Historian/Be a Geographer/Walk an Extra Mile, Case Studies provide in
• My History Corner/My Geography Corner My Activity Comer include activities and projects that further develop skills and concepts by linking additional information with course content.
• Geography Skill builder activities to develop map and spatial skills
• Dual focus Maps (map transparencies) that help learners to develop map skills by using layered maps
