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Adventuring beyond.

A course in Social Studies

Adventuring beyond. is an Encyclopædia Britannica series of five Social Studies textbooks for Classes 1 to 5. These extend to Social Science textbooks covering History, Geography, Social and Political Life for Classes 6, 7, and 8.Conforming to the National Curriculum Framework, 2005 and designed according to the new NCERT Upper Primary syllabus, 2005, Adventuring beyond. is comprehensive and revolves around ideas and themes drawn from History,Geography, Civics, Economics, and Sociology in a balanced manner. Suitably graded, the series develops the social, cultural, and analytical skills required to adjustto an increasingly interdependent and diverse world.

The salient features are as follows

• Variety of activities, experiments, surveys, and craft activities to learn while doing
• Questions that encourage investigative skills
• Assignments to develop thinking and scientific skills
• Opportunities for group discussion and debate
• Additional information including case studies for discussion and inference
• Factoids supported by thinking points and web links
• Awareness of and sensitivity towards ecological issues
• Infobits on healthy living
• Web resources to encourage research
• Word bank of social science terms
• Glossary running alongside the content with meanings of difficult words
• Sample test papers for each term
• CD-ROM that supplements the textbook content with chapterwise animations, visual information, and interactive exercises.
• Teacher's manual and teacher notes to assist the teaching process
• Specific icons alongside exercises and assignments indicate skills for assessment through continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE).

Adventuring beyond. aims to develop skills that will help learners seek harmony in thediversity of the world around them, encourage learners to blaze new paths, and have a learning experience that goes beyond.

Classes: 1 to 8

Components:

• CD-ROM that supplements the textbook
• Teacher's book for each level

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Authors:

Ashok Kumar is an experienced and eminent educationist, presently the CEO of the Indian High School Group and Principal of the Indian High School, Dubai. His numerous awards include the National Award for Best Principal. He has been the Chairman of the Council of CBSE Affiliated Schools in the Gulf and is closely associated with Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi.

Deepa Rao has the experience of teaching Social Sciences in several reputed schools for more than 34 years.

Dr. Sujata Singh has been teaching and researching for more than 20 years in the field of Social Sciences, and has developed teaching materials for the Geography school curriculum.

Sohini Chakravarty has 14 years of teaching experience. An experienced teacher trainer, she is closely associated with the organization of innovative teaching methodologies in schools.