ADDITIONAL SUBJECTS

1. HOME SCIENCE

2. COMMERCE

3. COMPUTER  SCIENCE

4. HIGHER MATHEMATICS

1. HOME SCIENCE

I. Name of the text books

(a) A Text Book of Household Arts

Published by Orient Longman, Calcutta (by Stella Soundaraj)

(b) Home Science for Classes IX & X

Published by Progress Printers & Publishing, Khurai Lamlong Bazar, Imphal (by Smt. Bedamani Devi)

FOR CLASS - IX

II. Course Contents

 1. THE HOUSE

Sanitation of the house, the waste matter and its disposal. Air - a simple study of the composition of air, simple methods   of detecting oxygen and carbondioxide. Impurities in the air. A detail planning of the house - kitchen, laundry, nursery, the bed room and the living room, House decoration importance of good taste - a simple study of balance, proportion and harmony and their application, Decoration of different rooms for different purpose. 'Alpana' in different provinces.

2. HEALTH AND HOME:

Your own body-teeth, eye, ear, hair and skin - their health and care-cleanliness. Rest and exercise, good posture and personality.Health habits - in patting, drinking, sleeping, breathing and bathing. Food - digestion of food, enzymes. Planning of special diets -diets for babies, pre school and school children and the aged. Diet for hard labour. Cooking and preservation of vitamins effect of heat on different food constituencies. Menu making. Cloth and clothing - variety of cloths of different materials, uses and importance of clothing, care of clothings. Laundering - washing and finishing of artificial si1k. Different types of stains and their removal - ink, rust, grease, blood, tea, perspiration, fruit and curry stains.

3. HOME NURSING:

The nurse:     Duties to herself and to the patient.

The sick-room : Choice of the room and its arrangement, bed and bedmakingwith and without patient, collection and preservation of the materials used by the sick(viz. Line, utensils, hot water bag, ice bag, mackintosh, etc.)

First Aid : Simple bandaging, storage of poisonous medicines, Accidents and emergencies, Sprains and Fractures, Pain cuts, Bleeding street accidents, Foreign bodies, bites and stings,fits and fainting.

4. ACTIVITIES IN THE CLASS ROOM:

Plan the daily menu. Clean your cloths and remove stain. Convert one of the school room into a living room and decorate it. Decorate your school corridor with a simple alpana design. Arrange flowers and observe the principle of harmony, balance and proportions. Prepare egg, flip boil custard carame, custard pudding, banana custard, baked apple. Prepare vegetable and fish stew, brown stew, fried rice.

 Practical work in connection with Home Nursing and First - Aid.

III. Distribution of Marks

FOR CLASS - X

I. Course Contents

      1. THE HOUSE

        The business of the house-detailed study of family income and budget making provision for future importance of savaing   Bank, Post Office and Insurance Policy-household account.

        House decoration-different house plans and their designs. Interior design and decoration personality expressed through choice-selection and arrangement of pictures and wall hanging. Making the best of one;s possession-elimination, rearrangement ,concealment, Household repairs simple fuse furniture repairs.

        2. HOUSE MANAGEMENT :

         Food-planning of diet to be continued. Deficiency disease, modification of deit in disease, control and deit in obesity and underweight. Best use of food with some aspect of food economics, Adulteration of food and simple tests. Cooking of food and preservation of food value-general principles of preparing diet for the sick, the infants and the aged. Planning meals for different occasions and preparing menu. Cloth and clothings. Clothing and health-errors in clothing choice of cloths for women, different dress designs, colour in dress, Children’s clothes.

        Laundering – a study of different textile fibres-cotton, linen, rayon, wool, silk and metal fibres, their properties and react on to acid and alkalies. Different processes of washing finishing materials of different textureorgandi, georgette, crepe-de-chine.

HOUSE NURSING:

        Nursing of the patient. Care of the mouth and bowels. Care of the back. Care of the hair. Care of the nails. Sponging high fever, temperature taking and administration of drugs

        .Infectious diseases, germs, Elementary Knowledge of signs and symptoms of diseases.

        Saving of urine, stool, vomits, etc. Isolation, notification and prevention.

        Disinfection of room and materials.

        Epidemics, Inoculation and vaccination.

        Young mother-her responsibility to herself and to her child.

ACTIVITIES IN THE CLASS ROOM:

        Prepare menu for light refreshment and a dinner-wash and finish a coloured tasar sari, a crepe blouse, one georgette frock with frills, silk shirts and Panjabi. Convert one of your school rooms into a bed room, another into a study-plan and decorate each, use curtains and flowers and wall pictures where-ever necessary. Prepare Palao and Shahi Kabab Fish Chop and Meat Cutlet steamed fish Paccai Paratha-Singhara and Nimiki-Kachuri Malpeapantua Coconut sweets - vegetables salad, stewed apple Practical work in connection with Home Nursing and First-Aid.

DESIGN OF QUESTION PAPER FOR H.S.L.C. EXAMINATION

Subject: Home Science ; Class: X Time; 3 hours ; Marks = 100

Weightage to Objectives:

 Weightage to Forms of Questions:

3. Weightage of Content

4. Scheme of Section :     No Section

5. Scheme of option :      Internal option may be given in (E) type questions provided they test the same objective.

6. Difficulty Level     :       Difficult         :    15%

Abbreviations: K (Knowledge),C (Comprehension), Ex (Expression), E (Essay Type), SA (Short Answer Type), VSA (Very Short Answer Type), 0 (Objective Type).