Social Studies EVS Class -1 Homes Around Us

2. A TENT A STILT
HOUSE
AN IGLOO
A BOATHOUSE A BUNGALOW

3. What are homes?
• The place we live in is your home, whether
it’s a house with four walls and a roof, a
flat that’s part of a larger building or a
caravan on wheels that can move around.
• Home is a place where we live with our family
in full security and safety.
• The homes in our city, town or village may
look different from now – this could be
because they were built at a different
time, and from different materials.

4. HUT COTTAGE HOUSE BUNGALOW

5. • Homes have changed over the centuries
because the way we live has changed
during over a period of time.
• For example, we don’t all live in one room
with our horses and cows anymore the way
that the Iron Age Celts did.
• It’s more common to have bathrooms
inside our homes now instead of at the

6. • Homes/Houses have changed based on the
structures and materials.
• Housing changed our Society from Nomadic tribes
of extended families,
• Settled tribes with agriculture and animal
husbandry,
• Protection and safety,
• Development of towns and cities
• Urban Sprawl

7. • Construction, also
called building construction,
that primarily used to
provide us shelter.
• Construction is an ancient
human activity.

8. • It safeguards us from various
climatic conditions.
• Later for our own needs and
necessity human beings were able
to adapt themselves to a wide
variety of climates and become a
global species.

9. • Human shelters were at first very
simple and perhaps lasted only a
few days or months.
• Over time, however, even temporary
structures evolved into such highly
refined forms as the igloo, hut, or
the tent.

10. • Gradually more durable structures
began to appear, particularly after
humans started to agriculture.
• Where people started to stay in one
particular place for long periods,
rather than roaming for food and
shelter.

11. 8000 years ago.

13. • The history of building is marked by a
number of trends.
• One is the increasing durability of the
materials used.
• Early building materials were
perishable, such as leaves, branches,
and animal hides.
• Later, more durable natural materials
- such as clay, stone, and timber.

14. A HUT MADE OF
ANIMAL SKIN
A HOUSE MADE OF
BRANCHES
A HOUSE MADE
OF CLAY MUD

15. CONCRET METALS
BRICKS CEMENT

16. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
MATERIALS
AGGREGATES STONES
METALS
SAND LIME
CEMENT BRICKS
TIMBER

17. MATCH THE FOLLOWINGS:
1. TENT -
2. IGLOO -
3. FLATS -

18. MATCH THE FOLLOWINGS:
4. BUNGALOW -
5. HOUSE BOAT -

20. STONE AGE
Archaeologists discovered a
huge buildings back in
3600-3300 BC.
Harapan brick ratios of 4:2:1 were also noted along with a stone platform and the
beginnings of Harrapan silo pit.

22. STONE AGE
During the Paleolithic period (around 800
000BC – 10 000BC), humans in Britain
sheltered from ice and cold inside caves.
These were ready-made houses for them
to take shelter in quickly.

23. STONE AGE
The Mesolithic period was 10,000 BCE to
7,000 BCE.
The people were moving around not so
much and they built wigwam shaped
shelters in groups.
The camps were moved in different
seasons.
The wigwams were built of wooden poles
and covered with animal skins and bark.

24. STONE AGE
Neolithic or the new age people
usually live in rectangular homes
with a central hearth that were called
long houses.
They typically only had one door and
were made primarily from mud brick,
mud formed into bricks and dried.

25. ANCIENT TIMES
Stone, bricks, mud, wood, lime and
thatch were the most widely used
materials.
Houses were built based on their
availability in a particular region.
Since time changes, homes have used
stone for building walls, roofs and
floors.

26. MIDDLE AGE
Most people built their houses in the
Middle Ages just like in prehistory.
A wooden frame, walls of plaited
branches covered with clay and a
straw thatched roof.
Only later in the Middle Ages, only
the rich could afford using stone or
bricks.

27. MODERN AGE
Most people built their houses in the
Middle Ages just like in prehistory.
A wooden frame, walls of plaited
branches covered with clay and a
straw thatched roof.
Only later in the Middle Ages, only
the rich could afford using stone or
bricks.

28. THEN NOW

29. IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF HOUSE AND COMPLETE THEIR NAMES

30.  https://www.dreamstime.com/illustration/housing-evolution.html
 https://www.canstockphoto.com/architectural-housing-evolution-set-
93522257.html
 https://www.britannica.com/technology/construction/Roman-
achievements
 https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/rtf-fresh-perspectives/a1537-
evolution-of-housing-in-
india/#5e364bfc67f770dc39d4d8c5b9c4ca8f4f7ec81c#143921
 https://www.topperlearning.com/doubts-solutions/what-are-huts-

32. Kutcha House:
The Kutcha houses are made of
clay, bamboo, grass, and unburnt
bricks.

33. Pukka House:
Pukka Houses are made up of
brick, cement, iron and steels.
It is also called as permanent
house.

34. Hut:
A hut is a small, simple shelter,
which is built with wood, snow,
ice, stone, grass, palm leaves,
branches, hides, fabric, or mud.

35. Based on the human
settlements human
beings have been
living in various forms
of houses in terms of
climatic and,
socio-economic
conditions.
Houseboat,
Caravan,
Light
house,
Tree house,
Hut,
Tent
Terraced
house
Flats
Cottage
Bungalow
Detached
&
Semi-
detached

36. Houses on
Water
Castle
Light house
Tree house
Wooden
house
Bamboo house
Terracotta
house

37. DETACHED HOUSE
A Detached house stands
on it own.
It has no other houses
joined to it.

38. SEMI-DETACHED HOUSE
Semi- Detached houses are
two houses joined together
by a common wall.

39. A Terrace House is a house
situated in along row of houses.
They usually look the same.
Both sides of each house in the
row share common walls with a
neighboring house.

40. FLATS
A Block of Flats is a large
building divided into flats
where all the flats share a
front door.

41. BUNGALOW
A Bungalow is built on one
level (one storey).

42. COTTAGE
A Cottage is a small house,
usually in the countryside.
Cottages are houses that
usually come with one and half
storeys.
The top floor is much smaller
than the ground floor.

43. CARAVAN
A Caravan is a house on
wheels.

44. CASTLE
A large building or group
of buildings with thick
walls converted to
residential use.

45. MANSION
A Mansion is a very large
detached house.

46. PALACE
A large and richly
furnished building
resembling a royal palace.

47. TREE HOUSE
A structure built among
the limbs of a tree, usually
for recreation.

48. HUT
A hut is a small house with
only one or two rooms, which is
made of wood, mud, grass, clay
or straw.
Huts are also known as kutcha
houses as they are very weak.

49. TENT
The tent is a movable,
lightweight shelter which uses
thin fabric to protect people
from wind, rain and from the
cold.

50. Houses on
Water
Wooden
house
Bamboo house
Terracotta
house

51. HOUSE BOAT
A Houseboat is a boat
designed and equipped for
use as a house.

52. HOUSES ON WATER
A House will be constructed on
the surface of water.
Also called as floating homes.
Houses on water can be found
at the tourist place and in
areas where people are not
equipped to live a sustainable
life.

53. HOUSES ON WATER
Makoko slum
Makoko slum is located in
Nigeria(Africa).
This place is built on stilts and also
called as floating slum.

54. WOODEN HOUSE
Wooden houses are built with
wooden logs.
Logs may be round, squared or
it can be in any other shapes,
either handcrafted or milled.

55. BAMBOO HOUSE
Bamboo houses are a type of
stilt building primarily
constructed of bamboo as the
traditional form of housing for
Dai people.

56. TERACOTTA HOUSE
Terracotta refers to a fired
mixture of clay and water that
can be used in a non-structural,
semi-structural, or structural
capacity on the exterior or
interior of a building.
Flintstone- The Casa-de-terracotta is the biggest baked
house in the world

57. HOUSES BUILT NEAR DISASTER PRONE AREAS
Disaster, is defined as a serious disruption of
the functioning of a community or society,
Which involve widespread of humans,
materials, economic or environmental impacts
and destruction.
To cope up with the limited resources, people
started to built houses which are disaster

58. Houses in earthquake prone areas
are made up of wood because these
type of houses does not break off
easily.
They are also flexible and safeguards
the people from earthquake.

59. Stilt houses are built primarily as a
protection against flooding.
Stilt houses are raised on stilts and are
higher than a regular house.
Regular homes are built on land but
stilt houses use strong stilts, to avoid
the risks of flooding or even pests and
vermin.

60. A tsunami-proof building is a mainly
designed to survive the forces of a tsunami
wave.
It is shaped to offer protection from high
waves.
This thus causes the building to be dubbed
'tsunami-proof’.

61. India’s unique/traditional houses
Chettinad homes,
Brahmin Agraharam.
.

62. India’s unique/traditional houses
.
Nalukettu house,
Kerala.

63. India’s unique/traditional houses
Guthu mane traditional
house , Karnataka.
Manduva logili, Andhra
Pradesh.

64. India’s unique/traditional houses present till date
Can you believe even
after ages there are few
groups of people live in
huts and tent.
Yes! And those groups of
people are commonly
called as tribals.

65. India’s unique/traditional houses present till date
Tribals are group of people who
live in forests or backward areas.
They are completely dependent on forests for their
livelihood and survival.
There are several tribal groups in India.

66. India’s unique/traditional houses present till date
• The most commonly known tribes of India are Gonds,
Bhils, Santhal, Munda, Khasi, Garo, Angami, Bhutia,
Chenchu, Kodaba, and the Great Andamanese Tribes.
• As they keep moving from one place to the another, for
living these tribals groups do not have a permanent place.
• Their main occupation is cattle rearing for which they
need availability of water and pastures for grazing their
animals.
• When the pastures get depleted, they move to another
place with their animals, looking for pasture and water.

67. India’s unique/traditional houses present till date
• The Gond are a tribal people of
central India.
• They are one of the largest of the
country's Scheduled Tribes.
• They stay in the states of
MadhyaPradesh, Chhattisgarh,
Maharashtra.
Gond’s house, Maharashtra
village.

68. India’s unique/traditional houses present till date
• Most Bhils live
in rectangular shaped
house.
• Made of timber frame with
bamboo walls daubed with a
plaster made of water, clay,
and cattle dung.
• These material valued for its
cooling and insect-resisting
properties.
Bhill’s hut, Rajasthan.

69. India’s unique/traditional houses present till date
• Santhal live in the houses that
are mud structures, and often
decorated with floral designs.
• Roofs are tiled and slope
toward all four sides.
• Houses have verandas and at
least two rooms.
Santhal’s hut, Bhubaneswar.

70. India’s unique/traditional houses present till date
• The Munda are found
mainly in the Chhota
Nagpur Plateau region,
• Which covers most of
Jharkhand, as well as in
neighboring regions of
Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha
and West Bengal.
Muda’s house, West Bengal.

71. India’s unique/traditional houses present till date
• A Garo house is a long bamboo
structure built on wooden posts.
• It varies from 10 to 45 metres
in length and 3-7 metres in
width.
• It is constructed from locally
grown bamboo and cane, dried
palm leaves and timber of
rubber tree in dry season.
• It is also called as Nokachik.
Garo’s house, Garo Hills.

72. India’s unique/traditional houses present till date
• The Badagas are the largest
aboriginal Tribes of the
Nilgiri district.
• The Badagas live in nearly
303 villages, called "Hattis",
throughout the district.
• As the region is low in
temperature, these type of
arch-shaped houses are
built. Badaga’s house, Ooty.

73. India’s unique/traditional houses present till date
• Toda tribe, traditionally live in
small hamlets called mund
(village).
• These huts are constructed
with a complete absence of
windows.
• They are rectangular in plan,
with a barrel-vaulted roof that
reaches down to the ground.
Toda’s house, Ooty.

74. India’s unique/traditional houses present till date
• The Great Andamanese Tribes,
built their huts in the shape of a
partially flattened cone.
• They fit the top with a large,
circular, wooden disc, to prevent
the entry of rats and reptiles.
Andamanese Tribes, Andaman Island.

75. World's top 6 most unusual houses that will make you go OMG!
The Flintstones House,
Malibu, California.
Giant Seashell
House, Mexico City.
Egg House.
Beijing, China.
.
The Truffle, Costa da
Morte, Spain.
S-House,
Saitama, Japan.
Upside Down House,
Trassenheide, Germany.

76. THE FLINTSTONES HOUSE, MALIBU,
CALIFORNIA.

77. S-HOUSE, SAITAMA, JAPAN.

78. GIANT SEASHELL HOUSE,
MEXICO CITY.

79. THE TRUFFLE, COSTA DA
MORTE, SPAIN.

80. UPSIDE DOWN HOUSE,
TRASSENHEIDE, GERMANY.

81. EGG HOUSE. BEIJING, CHINA.
Check out this video on Egg House - https://youtu.be/lmXQ862y6uA

82. • https://wonderfulengineering.com/flintstone-looking-casa-terracota-is-the-biggest-baked-
house-in-the-world/
• https://www.indiatvnews.com/buzz/news-world-s-top-6-most-unusual-houses-that-will-
make-you-go-omg-443185
• https://k-render.com/top-10-best-south-indian-traditional-houses/
• https://www.badugaa.com/2015/01/badugar-history.html
• https://www.wallswithstories.com/ancient/toda-tribe.html
• Check out - https://youtu.be/Bb5sy2pgQAo
• Types of House Video - https://youtu.be/udwdInzAe88

83. The construction of home involves the process
of building something very strong, long-lasting
and permanent.
The important things that, we need to construct
a house are :
 Land/Plot
 Money
 Materials (sand/mud/cement/steal, etc..)
Architect
 Laborer/Worker
 Plumer
 Carpenter
 Electrician
 Painter

84. LAND MONEY MATERILAS

85. LABOUR/MASON ARCHITECT
PLUMBE
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86. Check out this video - https://youtu.be/NMirrMMD9QA
CARPENTER ELECTRICIAN PAINTER

87.  A home is a place of refuge.
 A person's most personal belongings are kept in a home and it's
where a person feels safe and accepted.
 Specific things are required to feel as a house in modern times, they
are living room, dinning room, kitchen, study room, bathroom,
bedroom, balcony and may be garden have become a necessity thing
to live our basic life.

89. STUDY ROOM DINNING ROOM

90. BEDROOM BATHROOM

91. GARDEN BALCONY

92. A FAMILY
A house protects us
from the sun, the
wind, the cold and
the rains.
But a house with a
Family is a place,
where we feel safe
and secure with lots
of love and care.

93. _ U _ B_ _ _ _ S I _ _ _ O
B_ _ _ H _ _ _ E C_ _ _ _ T

94. By
R PAVITHRA