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Learning by Doing Experiential Learning

Collect data from library or the Internet on the following:
• Sex ratio in the last five years.
• CBSE class X results of boys and girls in India in the last five years.
• Number of girls/boys admitted in engineering/medical/general colleges.
• Income generated in the country (also called GDP) in the last ten years.
• Present the data in four different bar graphs. If needed to be taken help from your subject teacher or your
mathematics teacher and compile it in your notebooks. Discuss your findings in the class and also discuss your
individual observations.

Nurture the Values Life Skills
• Imagine yourself as a film director. Your next film is based on gender stereotypes and your purpose is to
gradually reduce and ultimately eliminate gender-stereotyping from the mindset of people. What kind of story
would you like to work upon? Write a script in your notebook.
• Collect information about female foeticide in India. Organise a contest in writing slogans against this horrible
practice.

Think Before You Write Cognitive Skills

Fill each gap in the following sentences with a suitable word in the list:

degree treat discrimination gender equality
enrol opportunities eliminate force household chores

1. Don’t you believe in _______________ between boys and girls?
2. There are good _______________ for advancement if you have the right skills.
3. The single market is designed to _______________ barriers to the free movement of goods, services and
people.
4. He showed great _______________ in his choice of friends.
5. He had to leave the country though _______________ of circumstance.
6. We _______________ boys exactly the same as girls.
7. How much do men share _______________ and the care of the children?
8. Many factors are important, for example, class, _______________ age and ethnicity.
9. She has a _______________ in Biochemistry from London University.
10. The center will soon be ready to _______________ candidates for the new programme.

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