1. Laws of Motion

• Motion
• Distance and displacement
• Acceleration
• Newton’s laws of motion and related equations.

2. Work and Energy

• Work
• Energy
• Mechanical energy
• Law of conservation of energy
• Free fall

3. Current Electricity

• Potential and potential difference
• Conductors and insulators (bad conductors)
• Electrical resistance and Ohm’s Law
• Connection of resistors and effective resistance

4. Measurement of Matter

• Laws of chemical combination
• Atom - shape, mass, valency
• Molecular mass and the concept of mole
• Radicals

5. Acids, Bases and Salts

• Arrhenius theory of acids and bases
• Concentration of an acid or a base
• pH of a solution
• pH of an acid and a base
• Salts

6. Classification of Plants

• Kingdom Plantae
• Sub-kingdom: Gymnosperms
• Sub-kingdom: Angiosperms

7. Energy Flow in an Ecosystem

• Food chain and food web
• The energy pyramid
• Bio - geo - chemical cycle : Carbon, oxygen and nitrogen cycles

8. Useful and Harmful Microbes

• Useful micro-organisms : Lactobacilli, Rhizobium, Yeast
• Harmful micro-organisms : Clostridium and others

9. Environmental Management

• Weather and climate
• Meteorology
• Solid waste management
• Disaster management

10. Information Communication Technology (ICT)

• Important components of a computer
• Different types of software
• Importance of information communication in science and technology
• Opportunities in the field of computers

11. Reflection of Light

• Mirrors and types of mirrors
• Spherical mirrors and images formed by them
• Magnification due to spherical mirrors

12. Study of Sound

• Sound waves
• Velocity of sound
• Reflection of sound
• The human ear, audible sound, infra sound and ultrasound

13. Carbon : An important element

• Carbon – occurrence, properties, allotropes
• Hydrocarbons
• Carbon dioxide and methane – occurrence, properties, uses

14. Substances in Common Use

• Important salts in day to day life - NaCl, NaHCO₃, Na₂CO₃
• Radioactive substances
• Some chemical substances in day to day life

15. Life Processes in Living Organisms

• Transportation in Plants
• Excretion: Plants, Animals and Humans.
• Co-ordination: Plants and Humans

16. Heredity and Variation

• Inheritance
• Heredity: Characteristics and their appearance
• Mendel’s laws of inheritance
• Diseases due to chromosomal aberrations

17. Introduction to Biotechnology

• Tissues: animal tissues and plant tissues
• Tissue culture
• Agri-tourism
• Agri-business

18. Observing Space : Telescopes

Forms of light

Telescopes and types of telescopes

Telescopes in space

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)