Authors/Editors: Bala Ram Gajurel Dr. Shiv Ram Pandey, Dinesh Kumar Thapa, Thamindra Khatiwada, Gokarna Gyanwali
Salient features:
- Strictly follows the national curriculum of school Social Studies prescribed by the Curriculum Development Centre, Nepal
- Good integration of social studies activities, project work, field visits and map work as parts of study
- Lesson objectives and plans for students and teachers
- The contents of the lesson and presentation of the text in a very simple, precise and lucid language
- Varieties of questions for continuous assessment, comprehensive evaluation, critical thinking and creative writing
- New words at the end of each chapter in the form of a glossary
- Warm-up activities providing questions and discussions as introduction to concepts
- Approach through observation, classification, and inference
- Exploration and data interpretation through hands-on activities that relate to the students' immediate environment
- Assessment sheets for reinforcement and evaluation
- The lesson comprises the latest and authentic data
- Very short, short and long answer questions given according to the SLC pattern.
- Special attention has been given to social, ethnic, cultural, political, historical and geographical diversity, gender equality and the Constitution of Nepal 2072 and secularism.