CBSE Class 11 Home Science Syllabus 2024-2025 PDF Download (Revised)

Introduction to Home Science 

• What is Home Science  
• Areas of Home Science  
• Home Science is important for both boys and girls  
• Career options of Home Science 

Understanding oneself: Adolescence 

Ch: Understanding The Self

• What is Self?
• What is Identity? 
• Self during Infancy: characteristics
• Self during early childhood: characteristics 
• Self during middle childhood: characteristics
• Self during adolescence: characteristics
• Influences on identity

Ch: Food, Nutrition, Health And Fitness

• Introduction
• Definition of: Food, Nutrition, Nutrients 
• Balanced diet 
• Health and Fitness
• Using Basic food Groups for planning Balanced Diets (Food guide pyramid)
• Vegetarian food Guide
• Dietary patterns in Adolescence
• Modifying diet related behaviour
• Factors influencing eating behaviour
• Eating disorders at adolescence
• Key terms and their meaning 

Ch: Management Of Resources

• Introduction
• Classification of resources
• Human and non-human resources
• Individual and shared resources
• Natural and community resources
• Characteristics of resources 
•  Managing Resources 

Ch: Fabric Around Us

• Definition of yarns, fibres, textile products, finishing
• Introduction to fibre properties
• Classification of textile fibres
• Types of Natural Fibres
• Types of Manufactured Fibres
• Some Important fibres and their properties 
• Yarns 
• Yarn processing
• Yarn terminology
• Fabric production
• Textile Finishing

Ch: Media Communication Technology

• Communication and Communication Technology
• What is media 
• What is communication technology

Understating family, community and society

Ch: Concerns And Needs In Diverse Contexts

• Health and its Dimensions
• Health care Indicators of Health
• Nutrition and Health
• Importance of nutrients
• Factors affecting nutritional well being
• Nutritional Problems and their consequences
• Hygiene and Sanitation

• Time Management
• Space Management

Childhood 

Ch: Survival Growth And Development

• The meaning of survival
• Growth and development
• Areas of development 
• Good Nutrition
• Stages in development
• Development across stages from infancy to adolescence

Ch: Nutrition, Health And Well-Being 

• Introduction
• Nutrition, Health and Well-being during infancy (birth – 12 months) 
• Nutrition, Health and well-being of preschool children (1-6 years)
• Nutrition, Health and well-being of school-age children (7-12 years) 

Ch: Our Apparel

• Clothing functions and the selection of clothes
• Factors affecting selection of clothing in India 
• Understanding children‟s basic clothing needs
• Clothing requirements at different childhood stages 

Adulthood 

Ch: Health And Wellness

• Importance of health and fitness
• Healthy & Unhealthy diet
• BMI
• Do‟s and Donts for health promoting diets 
• Fitness
• Importance of exercise and physical activities in adulthood 
• Wellness
• Qualities of a person who is rated high on wellness
• Dimensions of wellness
• Stress and coping with stress 
• Simple techniques to cope with stress 

Ch: Financial Management And Planning 

• Financial management 
• Financial planning
• Management 
• Money and its importance
• Family Income
• Income management 
• Budget
• Steps in making budget 
• Advantages of planning family budget
• Control in money management 
• Savings
• Investment
• Principles underlying sound investments
• Savings and investment avenues
• Credit
• Need of credit 
• 4C‟s of credit: character, capacity, capital means, collateral

Ch: Care And Maintenance Of Fabrics

• Mending 
• Laundering
• Removal of dirt: the cleaning process
• Finishing
• Ironing 
• Dry Cleaning
• Storage of textile products
• Factors affecting fabric care 
• Care Label 

CBSE Class 11 Home Science Syllabus 2024-2025 PDF

Unit No

Unit Name

No of Periods

Marks Weightage

1

Introduction to Home Science

04

02

2

Understanding oneself: Adolescence

35

20

3

Understanding Family, Community and Society

35

15

4

Childhood 

24

15

5

Adulthood 

28

18

                                                                         PRACTICAL (Max. Marks 30)

Observe developmental norms: (Physical, Motor, Language and social emotional) birth to three years

OR 

List and discuss 4-5 areas of agreement and disagreement with 

a) Mother 

b) Father 

c) Siblings/ Friends 

d) Teacher

5

Preparation of healthy snacks for an adolescent.

7

Plan a budget for a given situation/purpose

3

Prepare a time plan for yourself

3

Relationship of fibre properties to their usage:

a) Thermal property and flammability 

b) Moisture absorbency and comfort

OR

Prepare one care label of any garment.

Viva

File

5

2

5