Role of Media Bringing Public Awareness

Unit - 5 : Disaster Management
Term I
1. Introduction to Disaster Management
2.
Common Hazards - Prevention and Mitigation
Term II
3.
Man made disasters - Nuclear, Biological and Chemical.
4.
Community Based Disaster Management.

25 Periods

(Chapter 1)
(Chapter 2)
(Chapter 3)
(Chapter 4)

PRESCRIBED TEXTBOOKS :
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

India and the Contemporary World History - Published by NCERT
Contemparary India - Geography - Published by NCERT
Democratic Politics - Published by NCERT
Economics - Published by NCERT
Together, Towards a Safer India - Part II, a textbook on Disaster Management for Class IX - Published by
CBSE

Class X
Time : 3 Hours
UNIT
1
2
3
4
5

Marks : 90
TERM 1 TERM 2

India and the Contemporary World - II
India - Resources and their Development
Democratic Politics II
Understanding Economic Development - II
Disaster Management-only through project work and assignment

23
23
22
22
-

90

TOTAL

23
23
22
22
-

90

The prescribed syllabus will be assessed using formative and summative assessments with the following weightages
during an Academic session :
Term-I
20%
30%
50%

Formative Assessment 1and 2, 3 and 4
Summative Assessment
TOTAL

Term-II
20%
30%
50%

Total
40%
60%
100%

The formative assessment will comprise of Projects, assignments, activities and Class Tests/periodic tests for which
Board has already issued guidelines to the schools. The Summative assessment will comprise of Theory paper as per
the prescribed design of the Question Paper.
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Unit 1 : India and the Contemporary world - II
45 Periods

Themes

Objectives

In Sub-unit 1.1 students are required to choose any
two themes. In that sub-unit, theme 3 is compulsory
and for second theme students are required to choose
any one from the first two themes.

The theme will discuss the forms in which
nationalism developed along with the formation
of nation states in Europe in the...