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Preface

Realizing the urgent need of a standard, reliable and goal-oriented textbooks carefully well-graded
Dynamic Social Studies and Population Education series has been written in line with the recently revised
curriculum of the Curriculum Development Centre (CDC), Ministry of Education, Government of Nepal.
The students at this level should be encouraged to develop creative and critical thinking around the themes
and come up with problem-solving aptitude also. Our goal has been to promote students' interest in this
discipline and stimulate them to accept Social Studies as a viable subject in their career.
The series possesses the following salient features to facilitate easy and creative learning:
• Learning Outcomes in terms of competencies have been listed to familiarise the students with the basic
learning that they are expected to achieve through the chapter materials.
• Facts to Understand may arouse interest in students to explore more to learn the relevant facts.
• Contents are orderly, simplified, insightful, comprehensive and interesting and are from simple to
complex in order to facilitate easy understanding.
• Lessons are so structured in such a way to enable progressive and constructive learning with a logical
development of the content. Moreover, sufficient elaboration of the lesson has been done.
• Special attention has been paid to the socio-cultural aspect of Nepal. Moreover, they are thoroughly
inclusive.
• Utmost care has been taken to understand the level of understanding and interests of the children.
• A simple and lucid language has been used.
• Latest information has been added to make students get appropriately updated.
• Key Words have been incorporated to make the students understand the difficult words.
• Relevant data and pictures have been added to facilitate creative learning, interpretation skill, thinking
and reasoning skill.
• Activities have been developed and designed to sharpen their creativity and critical thinking.
• Ample exercises for continuous and comprehensive assessment to meet the objectives set by the
curriculum.
• Community Work has been incorporated so as to make the knowledge and skill of the students apply to
the community and students can learn from the community as well.
• Review Questions have been developed as follow-up activities at the end of every unit in order to
consolidate and reinforce children’s learning.
• Every effort has been made to make designing and printing attractive.
We would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to the entire team of the Teachers Publication who trusted
us to take up this project and encouraged us relentlessly to bring the series out in this shape.
We genuinely express our deepest sense of gratitude to all who have cordially supported and encouraged us
directly or indirectly during the course of preparation of the series.
Our special thanks go to Perspective Designers and team for their unrelenting and meticulous designing act.
We have left no stone unturned to make this series foolproof from any unwarranted mistakes. Still some
errors may have crept in, for which we look up to the readers to impart us constructive suggestions and
critical feedback so that they may be rectified in the future editions.
Last but not the least, we are highly indebted to all the founders, directors, principals, administrators, vice
principals, in-charges, teachers and all our well-wishers across the country for their cheerful encouragement,
affection and on-going support.

Happy Reading!
The Authors