1) The document tells the story of Chetan Das, a boy who came to India from Pakistan during the partition of British India in 1947. 2) Chetan Das' family was given land in a village near Delhi, where they first built a mud house using local materials. 3) Over time, as Chetan Das' family circumstances changed with marriage and his children leaving home, their house evolved from mud to brick to concrete, representing changing building materials and styles over generations.

1. CHANGING TIMES
THE STORY OF CHETANDAS
( Class IV EVS)

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OBJECTIVES OF THE LESSON
PLAN
To enable pupils to :
• To know about partition of India
• To understand relocation and its difficulties
• recognise house as a basic need
• know that houses and the housing materials
have changed with years
• to relate types of houses to places, people and
building materials
• to know the personnel and the tools used in
building

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Contents Of The Lesson
• Relocation to India( story of a family)
• Partition of India
• Location of India and Pakistan
• Types of houses over a period of 2-3
generations
• Home builders and their tools

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Chetan Das, a nine year old boy
came with his family from Pakistan to India
along with thousands of others…

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INDIA

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Map of
South Asia

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India got its Independence

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Can you name the two
countries
that India
was partitioned into?

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WHERE DID THEY LIVE ?
They lived in Houses like this

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The Indian Government gave his
family a piece of land

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Near Delhi in a village called
Sohna

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First they built a mud house with
a materials around them

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15 years later, Chetandas gets
married. He improves his house
like this Cement roof
Brick walls

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About 20 years later, the children of Chetan Das get married.
The son changes the
house by
building
like this

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His youngest son
Montu
goes to live
in a City.
There Chetan Das
sees many houses like
this.

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CHETAN DAS’S SAW HOUSES
CHANGING OVER TIMES

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WHO BUILDS HOUSES?

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A MASON

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A CARPENTER
WHO’S HE?

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TOOLS OF A CARPENTER

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A PLUMBER

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His Tools

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
• “LOOKING AROUND”-
EVS text for Class IV (NCERT)
Google image search for all the graphics
used in the lesson(www.google.co.in)