Lesson Plan as per NEP 2020 A PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Gurjit Kaur (Associate Professor) & Mrs. Amanpreet Kaur (Assistant Professor) from Khalsa College of Education G.T. road, Amritsar

1. LESSON PLAN AS PER NEP 2020
Dr. Gurjit Kaur Mrs. Amanpreet Kaur
Associate Professor Assistant Professor
Khalsa college of Education, G.T. Road Amritsar

2. PEDAGOGY AS
PER NEP 2020
Integrated
Holistic
Experiential
Flexible
Enjoyable
Discussion
based
Learner centered
Inquiry
based

3. Subject: Social Studies
Topic: Judiciary – Role & Structure
Class: 8th
Duration: 35-40 mins.

4. GENERAL TEACHING AIDS: A Well-equipped Classroom with Blackboard, Chalk, Duster And Pointer.
ILLUSTRARTIVE AIDS:
 Flash card showing the importance of Judiciary, Supreme court, High court, and Chief Justice of India
 A dice shaped model showing various aspects of the Judiciary
 A pyramid shaped model showing the structure of Indian courts
GENERALAIMS:
 To develop the interest of students in Social Studies.
 To enable the students to understand the administrative set up of the country.
 To sensitize the students towards issues and problems of social injustice, law lessness, disbelieve, etc.
 To inculcate values of compassion, trust, peace, co-operation among students.
 To recognize the contributions of different sections of the society in political, social and cultural processes.

5.  LEARNING OUTCOMES:
1. COGNITIVE DOMAIN:
 KNOWLEDGE: The students will be able to gain knowledge about the judiciary.
 UNDERSTANDING: The students will be able to explain and describe the importance of judicial system in their own
words.
 APPLICATION: The students will be able to utilize their knowledge about legislative enactments and judicial
decisions in day to day life.
2. AFFECTIVE DOMAIN:
 INTEREST: The students will be able to develop their interest in the judicial system of the country.
 ATTITUDE: The student will be able to develop faith in judiciary.
3. CONATIVE DOMAIN:
 SKILL: Student will be able to demonstrate good oral and written skills. Also student will enhance their leadership
and management skills.

6.  PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE ASSUMED: P.T. assumes that pupils are quite familiar with the working of judicial
system like police, chief justice, judges, and lawyers, etc. either through media or perhaps through personal
experiences.
 ICE BREAKING ACTIVITY: By throwing a dice on table for 6 to 8 times P.T. will ask to the students to observe the
pictures displayed on the dice S/he can also give them the dice for direct observation and ask them to answer few
questions.

7.  ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE TOPIC: With the help of last question P.T. will announce the topic, “well students, today
we shall learn in detail about the importance of judiciary and structure of judiciary in India.”
 PRESENTATION OF THE TOPIC: P.T. will develop the lesson with active participation of the students. Questioning
answering technique, Explanation, and relevant teaching aids will be used to make the concepts clear.
P.T. ACTIVITY PUPILACTIVITY
1. By showing a dice P.T. will ask to students, what is this?  This is a dice.
2. What do you observe from this dice?  I have observed Judge, lawyers, witness,
witness stand, court scene.
3. Why do we need Judges, Lawyers, Courts, etc.?  We need Judges, Lawyers and Courts for
justice
4. Which organ of the government help in providing Justice
to its citizens?
 It is judiciary.
5. What do you mean by Judiciary?  Unsatisfactory/ No response.

8. Teaching
points
Developing
questions/Teacher’s
activity
Teacher’s statement B.B. Work & Teaching
/learning resources
Meaning of
Judiciary
• What do you mean by
justice?
• What is judiciary?
With the help of response
to this question P.T. will
explain the meaning and
definition of judiciary by
using blackboard.
The judicial branch of government
refers to a country’s court system.
Judiciaries are responsible for
interpreting and execute a country’s
laws in particular cases, and can
also be invested with the power to
strike down laws that it deems
unconstitutional.
Importance of
Judiciary
• Why is judiciary
important for any
political system?
P.T. will explain the
importance of judiciary
through flash card.
• It secures justice to all its citizens.
• It safeguards the fundamentals
rights of citizens.
• The Judiciary plays an important
role in overseeing the
implementation of constitutional
provisions and procedures.
 Judiciary Secure justice
to all citizens.
 It Protect fundamental
rights of citizens.
 Judiciary Implements
constitutional provisions
and procedures.
Judiciary is responsible
for interpreting and
applying laws in a
country.

9. Teaching
points
Developing
questions/Teacher’s activity
Teacher’s statement B.B. Work & Teaching
/learning resources
Role of
Judiciary
P.T. will ask the students:
• If there is property dispute
between two brothers in a
family then where would
they go to resolve the
dispute?
In the light of the response of
this question P.T. will explain
the role of judiciary in solving
various types of disputes
P.T. will elaborate this
teaching point by taking
relevant examples and write
the important points related
to role of judiciary on
blackboard.
 Dispute Resolution: The judicial
system provides a mechanism for
resolving disputes such as between
citizens, between two state
governments, between the center and
state governments.
 Judicial review: As the final
interpreter of the Constitution, the
judiciary also has the power to strike
down particular laws passed by the
Parliament if it believes that these are
a violation of the basic structure of
the Constitution which is called
judicial review.
 Upholding the law and enforcing the
fundamentals rights: It ensures that
there is no misuse of power by the
legislature and the executive.
ROLE OF JUDICARY
• Dispute Resolution
• Judicial review
• Upholding the law
and enforcing the
fundamentals rights

10. Teaching
points
Developing
questions/Teacher’s
activity
Teacher’s statement B.B. Work & Teaching
/learning resources
Structure
of Courts
in India
P.T. will create a
situation:
• In case you have
problem with
your peers but
your teacher is
unable to solve
your problem
what will you
do?
On the basis of this
situation P.T. will
explain the
structure of Indian
courts with the help
of flash cards and
blackboard.
Three different levels of courts in our country:
 The courts that most people interact with are
called district courts or subordinate
courts which are usually at the district or Tehsil
level or in towns and they hear many kinds of
cases. Each state is divided into several districts
that are presided over by a District Judge.
 Each state has a High Court which is the
highest court of that state.
 At the top is the Supreme Court that is located
in New Delhi and is presided over by the Chief
Justice of India. The decisions made by the
Supreme Court are binding on all the courts in
the India.
District court
High court
Supreme court

11. Teaching points Developing questions/Teacher’s
activity
Teacher’s statement B.B. Work & Teaching
/learning resources
Sectional
recapitulation
through a model
Current/
General
Knowledge
testing
ACTIVITY(2)
The structure of the courts
from the lower to the highest
level is such that it resembles a
pyramid. By showing a model
in pyramid shape P.T. will ask
the students to fix different
type of courts in an
hierarchical order.
P.T. will tell the students that
its time to test their general
knowledge. By showing a flash
card P.T. will ask students to
recognize this honourable
personality.
These are the options:
Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
is our chief justice. He is
50th chief justice of India.

12. Teaching
points
Developing
questions/Teacher’s activity
Teacher’s statement B.B. Work & Teaching
/Learning resources
Branches of
the Legal
System
ACTIVITY 3
P.T. will ask the students to
randomly pick the chits
(showing criminal and civil
law) from bowl & make two
groups of homogenous
answers. By showing these
groups P.T. will explain
branches of legal system
There are two branches:
1. Criminal law: Deals with conduct or acts
that the law defines as offences. It usually
begins with the lodging of a First Information
Report (FIR) with the police who investigates
the crime after which a case is filed in the
court. If found guilty the accused can be sent
to jail and also be fined.
2. Civil law: Deals with any harm or injury to
the rights of individuals. A petition has to be
filed before the relevant court by the affected
party only. For example- in a matter of rent
only the landlord or the tenant can file a case.
The court gives the specific relief asked for.
For instance – in a case between a landlord
and a tenant the court can ask for the flat to
be vacated and pending rent to be paid.
Examples of civil law
Disputes relating to
the sale of land,
purchase of goods,
rent matters, divorce
cases etc.
Examples of criminal
law
Theft, acid attack,
murder female
feticide, human
trafficking etc.

13.  GENERALIZATION: Dear students as we have learnt today that every country of the world has its own judicial
system which upholds, interprets and enforces the law made by the legislature. The courts play a very significant role
in protecting our fundamental rights as enshrined in our constitution. However the structure of courts differ in
different countries. In India, we have District/subordinate courts, High courts and Supreme court.
 RECAPITULATION: ACTIVITY (3) : P.T. will ask the students to fill in the blanks:

14. HOME ASSIGNMENT:
The students will be asked to explore the meaning and to make sentences on words like Acquit,
Compensation, Victim, Witness, Eviction, Violation, FIR, IPC , Bail and to write down the same in their
notebooks.

15. SOURCES:
https://www.education.gov.in/shikshakparv/docs/Anjum-Sibia.pdf
https://currentaffairs.adda247.com/justice-dy-chandrachud-to-take-oath-as-new-chief-justice-of-india/
https://www.indialegallive.com/special/72-year-journey-of-supreme-court-of-india/
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