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Grade 3

Preparatory stage · NCF Preparatory · SSEB levels 6–8

Draft on the approved Grade-7 pattern — under academic review

Method for this stage: Story → Question → Explanation → Activity → Reflection. Preparatory stage — stories carry the load; reading and asking begin in earnest.

Sanatan Gyan ज्ञान

Unit: Ramayana, told whole

Topics

  • The whole arc from Ayodhya to return
  • The people and their choices
  • What each choice cost

Learning outcomes — the student will

  • Tell the whole story arc in order
  • Name five people and one choice each
  • Say what one choice cost and why it was made

Activities · Assessment

Serial story time · Choice-and-cost chart
Assessed by: Oral retelling + short written answers

Sources

PSRamayana narrative tradition (children's telling) ASScholarship on the epic, teacher-side GONCF Preparatory guidance SSEBArc division and choice-frame

Further units this grade

Hanuman's own story

Sanskrit & Bharatiya Bhasha भाषा

Unit: Reading Devanagari

Topics

  • All vowels and core consonants
  • Matras step by step
  • Reading twenty everyday words

Learning outcomes — the student will

  • Read simple matra words aloud
  • Write dictated simple words
  • Read a two-line passage prepared in class

Activities · Assessment

Daily reading ladder · Word wall
Assessed by: Reading and writing check

Sources

PSGraded Devanagari material ASLiteracy pedagogy GONCF Preparatory language guidance; CBSE Hindi/Sanskrit alignment SSEBThe reading ladder

Further units this grade

First sentences

Darshana & Viveka दर्शन

Unit: Why do we ask why?

Topics

  • Questions that open things up
  • Guessing, then checking
  • When believing needs a reason

Learning outcomes — the student will

  • Ask an open question about a story
  • Make a guess and describe how to check it
  • Give one reason for one belief, simply

Activities · Assessment

Question wall · Guess-and-check games
Assessed by: Participation + a kept question journal

Sources

PSNone claimed — practice ASPhilosophy-for-children programmes GONCF Preparatory guidance SSEBThe ask-guess-check ladder

Further units this grade

The five senses as witnesses

Dharma & Ethics धर्म

Unit: Duties at home

Topics

  • Duties to parents, siblings, elders — through stories
  • Shravan Kumar told and talked through
  • A promise kept for a month

Learning outcomes — the student will

  • Name their duties at home in their own words
  • Retell Shravan Kumar and say what it honours
  • Keep one chosen promise and report on it

Activities · Assessment

Promise diary · Story discussion
Assessed by: Diary + oral reflection

Sources

PSShravan Kumar story tradition ASCharacter-education scholarship GONCF values guidance SSEBThe kept-promise frame

Further units this grade

Guests and respect

Sanskriti & Civilisation संस्कृति

Unit: Festivals across India

Topics

  • The same season, festival by festival, region by region
  • Pongal, Bihu, Onam, Chhath beside Diwali and Holi
  • Every region honoured, none ranked

Learning outcomes — the student will

  • Place six festivals on the year's wheel
  • Describe one festival not their family's own, accurately

Activities · Assessment

Festival wheel · Region reports told aloud
Assessed by: Festival wheel + telling

Sources

PSThe living festivals of the regions ASRegional culture scholarship GONCF Preparatory guidance SSEBThe every-region-honoured rule

Further units this grade

Foods that travel with festivals

Bharatiya Knowledge Systems IKS

Unit: Water, fields and wells

Topics

  • How fields are watered; wells, tanks and rain
  • Stepwells seen in pictures — beauty that works
  • Saving water as an old habit, not a new slogan

Learning outcomes — the student will

  • Explain one traditional way fields get water
  • Describe a stepwell and what it did
  • Keep a one-week water-saving habit

Activities · Assessment

Stepwell picture study · Water habit week
Assessed by: Telling + habit record

Sources

PSThe water structures themselves (pictured) ASWater-systems scholarship GONCF EVS alignment; KTPI agriculture precedent SSEBThe old-habit framing, evidence-shaped

Further units this grade

The village that feeds the town

Yoga & Swasthya स्वास्थ्य

Unit: Surya namaskar

Topics

  • The sequence learned step by step
  • Morning practice rhythm
  • Food groups on a thali, simply

Learning outcomes — the student will

  • Perform the sequence with correct order
  • Keep a two-week morning practice record
  • Sort a day's food onto a simple thali chart

Activities · Assessment

Daily practice · Thali chart
Assessed by: Practical + record; never medical claims

Sources

PSSurya namaskar tradition ASMovement pedagogy GOCBSE PE alignment; NCF health guidance SSEBStep-grading of the sequence

Further units this grade

Games of strength and breath

Kala & Kaushal कला

Unit: A craft each term

Topics

  • One regional craft, tried properly
  • Where it comes from, who makes it
  • Finish and show

Learning outcomes — the student will

  • Complete one craft piece
  • Name the craft's region and makers
  • Present the piece to the class

Activities · Assessment

Craft term-project · Maker story time
Assessed by: Finished piece + presentation

Sources

PSThe living craft, its makers named ASCraft scholarship GONCF arts guidance SSEBThe one-craft-per-term frame

Further units this grade

Songs while working