Class 6 History & Civics
How historians measure time and where their evidence comes from, how the first crops turned camps into towns, the names this land has been called and by whom, and the cities the Harappans built and lost — and then the other half of the subject: what governance is, what the three organs of a government do, and how a village panchayat and a city corporation put all of it within reach of the people who live there.
Print the whole term as one worksheet pack →Reading the Past
- Measuring historical timeLesson
Read and write dates as BCE and CE, count the years across the gap where no year zero sits, and say which century or millennium a year falls in.
- The sources of historyLesson
Say what counts as a source of history, group the four kinds the chapter names, tell apart the specialists who study the past, and follow what a historian does when two sources disagree.
- Early humans and the first cropsLesson
Describe how early humans lived as hunters and gatherers, and follow what changed after the last Ice Age when people began to farm, settle and build the first towns.
India, That Is Bharat
India's First Cities
- What makes a civilisationLesson
Name the characteristics the chapter says a civilisation should have, tell internal trade from external, and say where and when civilisation first began.
- The Indus-Sarasvatī civilisationLesson
Say when this civilisation ran and why it carries four different names, place its main cities on the modern map, and follow the two rivers its sites grew along.
- Harappan cities and their waterLesson
Describe how a Harappan city was laid out, tell the upper town from the lower, and follow the wells, drains and reservoirs that made such cities possible.
- Harappan food, crafts and tradeLesson
Say what the Harappans grew, made and traded, read what their seals and their dockyard were for, and give the two reasons the chapter says their cities were abandoned.
Family, Community and Government
- Family and communityLesson
Tell a joint family from a nuclear one, say what a community is and how many kinds the chapter allows, and read the real examples it gives of communities acting together.
- Governance and the three organsLesson
Tell governance from government and rules from laws, say what each of the three organs does and why they are kept separate, and place India's three levels of government.
- Democracy and representativesLesson
Take the word democracy apart into its two Greek halves, tell direct democracy from representative democracy, and name who represents people at each level in India.
Government Close to Home
- Panchayati RajLesson
Name the three tiers of the Panchayati Raj system, say who the Gram Sabha and the Sarpanch are and who assists them, and describe what these institutions are for.
- Urban local bodiesLesson
Say what an urban local body is and what decentralised means, work out which body a city gets from its population, and describe what wards and ward committees do.