Syllabus for 12th Class-XII jkbose.co.in : Jammu & Kashmir State Board of School Education

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Announcement : Class-XII, 12 Syllabus
Applicable State : Jammu & Kashmir
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JK BOSE Class-XII Syllabus

HOME SCIENCE (ELECTIVE) :
Maximum Marks: 100
Theory: 70 marks
Time: 3 Hours
Practicals: 30 Marks

Related : JK BOSE Syllabus for 11th Class-XI Jammu & Kashmir : www.syllabus.gen.in/223.html

Unit I

EARLY CHILDHOOD (0-3 years) Marks 12
Some specific characteristics : Physical and motor-height, weight and body proportions; motor development during 0-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-9 months, 9-12 months and 1-3 years (milestones only); social and emotional developments; recognition of people around;

socialization, expression of emotions; cognitive development; learning through concrete operations and language development. Protection from preventable diseases: immunization – concept and types (natural and acquired), breast feeding (one of the ways to develop natural immunity); immunization chart; symptoms and incubation period of childhood diseases – TB, DPT, polio, measles, cholera, diarrhoea.

Unit II

Special needs of disadvantaged and disabled children : socially disadvantaged, physically handicapped (partially blind & deaf, affected/missing limb): characteristics & needs. Substitute care at home and outside: siblings, grand parents, neighbours creche, day care centres etc: Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) – objectives and functions.

Unit III

My Apparel Marks 11
Clothing and its relation to personality: Factors that influence the selection of clothes: personality, age, climate, occupation, figure, occasion, fashion.

Checking size and quality in ready-made garments (need and criteria: seams, hem, plackets, fasteners, workmanship, design, drape).

Care of clothes : General principles and precautions to be followed while removing stains and washing: Cleansing agents: soaps and detergents (basic differences); Storage of clothes.

Unit IV

Applications of Home Science Education Marks 06
Application of knowledge of Home Science in everyday life. Usefulness of some of the skills learnt here for supplementing family income. Skills learnt here can be gainfully used for employment (self-employment, apprenticeship). Further training required to make this field a career: various sources and facilities available for training.

Unit V

Nutrition for Self and Family Marks 09
Planning meals for the family : meaning and importance of meal planning, principles and factors affecting meal planning, planning meals for the family; keeping in mind the needs of individual members, including children, pregnant women, lactating mother, members suffering from fever and diarrhoea; role and preparation of ORS.( Food groups planning only)

Unit VI

Ways to Ensure Good Health for the Family: using safe drinking water, qualities of safe drinking water; household methods of making water safe for drinking; boiling, filtering, use of alum and chlorine tablet, role of hygiene for food handlers at home level.

Safety against food adulteration, definition and meaning of food adulteration as given by PFA; common adulterants present in cereals, pulses, milk and milk products, fats and oils, sugar, jaggery, honey, spices and condiments and their ill effects.

Unit VII

Money Management and Consumer Education Marks 11
Family Income: various sources of family income: (i) money income, (ii) real income, direct and indirect; Supplementing family income-need & ways; need and procedure for keeping household accounts. Savings and Investment: meaning and importance of savings; ways/methods of investment banks, post-office, LIC, Units, PPF, PF; basis for selection of method of investment risk, security, profit, tax saving.

Unit VIII

Consumer Protection and Education: meaning, problems faced by consumer, Consumer Protection Act (1986) and Services; Consumer aids: levels, standardization marks, advertising, guidebooks/ leaflets, Consumer redressal forum. Consumer Behaviour & demand, market demand, its determinants, concept of price elasticity.

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Practicals Time: 3 Hours 30 Marks
External: 20 Internal:10
I. Know Little Children Marks 02
II. Nutrition for Self and Family (contd.) Marks 07
III. Money Management and Consumer Education Marks 02
IV. My Apparel Marks 04
V. Things I can do with my Home Science Training – Record Marks 03
VI. Viva-voce Marks 02

Unit I: Know Little Children (0-3 years)
Activity: Observe a child in neighbourhood or at home for various milestones of physical and motor developments and prepare a chart.
Practical: Make an interview schedule for working mother.
Activity: Interview three mothers working outside the home to find out their arrangements of substitute care for their children (0-3 yrs) in their absence.
Practical: Prepare a chart of milestones
Practical: Prepare a chart for immunization of a child.

Unit II: Nutrition for Self and Family
Practicals: Plan meals for the family and carry out modifications to suit individual needs including persons suffering from fever or diarrhoea and for pregnant and lactating mother. Prepare and serve one dish.
Practical: Preparation of oral dehydration solution
Practical: Simple tests for checking adulteration in-
(i) Cereals
(ii) Pulses
(iii) Milk and milk products
(iv) Tea leaves
(v) Dhania powder
(vi) Red chillies
(vii) Haldi powder
(viii) Gur (Jaggery)
(ix) Black Pepper (Whole)

Unit III: Money Management and Consumer Education
Activity: Open an account. Find out and report how an account is opened in a bank and post office. Collect and fill forms.
Activity: Read and evaluate labels of any four household items bearing different standardization marks.
Practical: Fill bank post office forms
Practical: Prepare one label each for four household items/products bearing different standardization marks.

Unit IV: My Apparel
Practical: Make sample of
(a) basic stitches and seams:
(i) Running Stitch
(ii) Hemming
(iii) Blind stitch
(iv) Inter-locking
(b) Fasteners – Buttons and hooks.
(c) Patch work
or make an apron and incorporate all the above (a, b, and c).
Practical: Examine quality in ready-made garments.
Practicals: Relative effect of temperature of water on the clothes during the process of washing clothes (cold, lukewarm, hot). Draw conclusions and how this knowledge is helpful.
Practical:
Removal of stains of –
(i) Tea stain
(ii) Coffee stain
(iii) Curry
(iv) Grease
(v) Ball point ink
(vi) Lipstick
(vii) Blood
Practical: Make a soap/detergent (liquid/powder/cake)