CBSE Class 8 Syllabus

Mathematics 

1. Rational Numbers
2. Linear Equations in one variable
3. Understanding Quadrilaterals
4. Practical Geometry
5. Data Handling
6. Squares and Square Roots
7. Cube and Cube Roots
8. Comparing Quantities
9. Algebraic Expressions and Identities
10. Visualising Solid Shapes
11. Mensuration

English

Chapter 1:

• The Best Christmas Present in the World
• Poem: The Ant and the Cricket

Chapter 2: The Tsunami

• Poem: Geography Lesson

Chapter 3:

• Glimpses of the Past
• Poem: Macavity -The Mystery Cat

Chapter 4:

• Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory
• Poem: The Last Bargain

Chapter 5:

• The Summit Within
• Poem: The School Boy

Chapter 6: ‘

• This is Jody’s Fawn
• Poem: The Duck and the Kangaroo

Chapter 7:

• A Visit to Cambridge
• Poem: When I set out for Lyonnesse

Chapter 8:

• A Short Monsoon Diary
• Poem: On the Grasshopper and Cricket

Hindi

• Chapter 1: ध्वनि (किवता)
• Chapter 2: लाख की चूिड़या (कहानी)
• Chapter 3: बस की यात्रा
• Chapter 4: दीवानों की हस्ती (किवता)
• Chapter 5: चीटियों की अनूठी दुिनया (निबंध )
• Chapter 6: भगवान के डािकए (किवता)
• Chapter 7: किया निराश हुआ जाए (निबंध )
• Chapter 8: यह सब से किठन समय नहीं (किवता)
• Chapter 9: कबीर की सखियाँ
• Chapter 10: कामचोर (कहानी)
• Chapter 11: जब सिनेमा ने बोलना सीखा
• Chapter 12: सुदामा चरित (किवता)
• Chapter 13: जहाँ पिहया है
• Chapter 14: अकबरी लोटा (कहानी)
• Chapter 15: सूर के पद (किवता)
• Chapter 16: पानी की कहानी (निबंध)
• Chapter 17: बाज और साँप (कहानी)
• Chapter 18: टोपी (कहानी)

Social Science: 

History Syllabus

• Where, When, How
• The Establishment of Company Power
• Rural Life and Society
• Colonialism and Tribal Societies
• Crafts and Industries
• The Revolt of 1857-58
• Education and British rule
• Women and reform
• Challenging the Caste System
• Colonialism and Urban Change
• Changes in the Arts: Painting, Literature, architecture
• The Nationalist Movement
• India after Independence

Social and Political Life Syllabus

• Unit 1: The Constitution
• Unit 2: Parliamentary Government
• Unit 3: The Judiciary
• Unit 4: Social Justice and the Marginalised
• Unit 5: Economic Presence of the Government

Geography Syllabus

1. Resources
2. Natural resources
3. Agriculture
4. Industries
5. Human Resources

Science & Technology

1. Food

• Crop production
• Micro-organisms

2. Materials

• Materials in daily life
• Different kinds of materials and their reactions
• How things change/ react with one another

3. The World of the Living

• Why conserve
• The cell
• How babies are formed

4. Moving things, People and Ideas

• Idea of force
• Friction
• Pressure
• Sound

5. How Things Work

• Electric current and circuits

6. Natural Phenomena

• Rain, thunder and lightning
• Light
• Night sky
• Earthquakes