International Social Studies Olympiad (ISSO) - Eligibility, Exam Pattern, Admit Card, Result

Class 2-Social studies: Unit 01

• Body parts, family, safety rules, good habits and manner, good touch and bad touch

Class 2-Social studies: Unit 02

• Food, clothes and shelter

Class 2-Social studies: Unit 03

• School and neighbourhood, our helpers, places of worship

Class 2-Social studies: Unit 04

• National symbols, great people, historical monuments in India, festivals and celebrations

Class 2-Social studies: Unit 05

• Air, water and land, environment

Class 2-Social studies: Unit 06

• Time and directions, transport and communication

Class 2-Social studies: Unit 07

• Universe, weather and seasons

Class 3-Social studies: Unit 01

• Body, family, safety rules

Class 3-Social studies: Unit 02

• Food, clothes and shelter

Class 3-Social studies: Unit 03

• Community helpers, agriculture

Class 3-Social studies: Unit 04

• Freedom fighters, historical monuments in India, festivals and celebrations, four metro cities

Class 3-Social studies: Unit 05

• Story of fire, invention of wheel, growing good

Class 3-Social studies: Unit 06

• Air, water and land

Class 3-Social studies: Unit 07

• Transport and communication

Class 3-Social studies: Unit 08

• Solar system, weather and seasons

Class 4-Social studies: Unit 01

• National symbols, landscape and its people, our heritage

Class 4-Social studies: Unit 02

• Natural vegetation and soil, air and water

Class 4-Social studies: Unit 03

• Agriculture, industries, sports

Class 4-Social studies: Unit 04

• Fundamental rights and duties, public services

Class 4-Social studies: Unit 05

• Time, mapping neighbourhood

Class 4-Social studies: Unit 06

• Transport and communication

Class 4-Social studies: Unit 07

• Solar system, moon and artificial satellites, climate and seasons

Class 5-Social studies: Unit 01

• Freedom struggles and independence, important dates, great personalities and achievers, inventions and discoveries

Class 5-Social studies: Unit 02

• Structure of government, fundamental rights and duties, united nations and other regional organisations

Class 5-Social studies: Unit 03

• Landforms, weather and climatic zones, map, natural disaster and mitigation

Class 5-Social studies: Unit 04

• Music styles and dance forms, world heritage sites, handicrafts

Class 5-Social studies: Unit 05

• Pollution, conservation of environment, healthy lifestyle

Class 5-Social studies: Unit 06

• Transport and communication, migration

Class 6-Social studies: Unit 01

• What, where, how and when?, from hunting-gathering to growing food, in the earliest cities, what books and burials tell us, kingdoms, kings and the early republic, new questions and ideas, from a kingdom to an empire, villages, towns and trades
• New empires and kingdoms, buildings, paintings and books

Class 6-Social studies: Unit 02

• The earth in the solar system, globe: Latitudes and longitudes, motions of the earth, maps, major domains of the earth, our country-India

Class 6-Social studies: Unit 03

• Understanding diversity, diversity and discrimination, what is government?, Panchayati Raj, rural administration, urban administration, rural livelihoods, urban livelihoods

Class 7-Social studies: Unit 01

• Introduction: Tracing changes through a thousand years, kings and kingdoms, 12th to 15th century, the Mughals (16th to 17th century), tribes, nomads, and settled communities, devotional paths to the divine, the making of regional cultures
• Eighteenth-century political formations

Class 7-Social studies: Unit 02

• Environment, inside our earth, our changing earth, air, water, human-environment interactions, the tropical and the subtropical region, life in the deserts

Class 7-Social studies: Unit 03

• On equality, role of the government in health, how the state government works, growing up as boys and girls, women change the world, understanding media, markets around us, a shirt in the market

Class 8-Social studies: Unit 01

• How, when and where, from trade to territory: The company establishes power, ruling the countryside, tribals, dikus and the vision of a golden age, when people rebel 1857 and after, civilising the “native”, educating the nation, women, caste and reform
• The making of the national movement: 1870s – 1947

Class 8-Social studies: Unit 02

• Resources, land, soil, water, natural vegetation and wildlife resources, agriculture, industries, human resources

Class 8-Social studies: Unit 03

• The Indian constitution, understanding secularism, parliament and the making of laws, judiciary, understanding marginalisation, confronting marginalisation, public facilities, law and social justice

Class 9-Social studies: Unit 01

• The French revolution, socialism in Europe and the Russian revolution, Nazism and the rise of Hitler, forest society and colonialism, pastoralists in the modern world

Class 9-Social studies: Unit 02

• India-size and location, physical features of India, drainage, climate, natural vegetation and wildlife, population

Class 9-Social studies: Unit 03

• What is democracy?, why democracy?, constitutional design, electoral politics, working of institutions, democratic rights

Class 9-Social studies: Unit 04

• The story of village Palampur, people as resource, poverty as a challenge, food security in India

Class 10-Social studies: Unit 01

• The rise of nationalism in Europe, nationalism in India, the making of a global world, the age of industrialisation, print culture and the modern world

Class 10-Social studies: Unit 02

• Resources and development, forest and wildlife resources, water resources, agriculture, minerals and energy resources, manufacturing industries, lifelines of national economy

Class 10-Social studies: Unit 03

• Power-sharing, federalism, gender, religion and caste, political parties, outcomes of democracy

Class 10-Social studies: Unit 04

• Development sectors of the Indian economy money and credit globalisation and the Indian economy consumer rights