Viva Social Studies is a set of eight books for classes 1 to 8, designed and developed keeping in mind the guidelines framed by the CBSE. It is an activity-oriented series with creatively designed exercises and individual and group activities.

Salient features of books 1 and 2:

• Language is kept simple, keeping the level of the students in mind.
• Concepts are taught and reinforced through illustrations, pictures, activities and flow charts.
• Chapter-end exercises and activities are largely objective type to facilitate classroom assessment.
• Wise Words are linked with life-skills.
• Brain Teasers enhance thinking skills.
• Do you know? gives additional interesting information related to the text.
• Find Out keeps the children interested in the subject and makes them inquisitive.
• For the Teacher helps a teacher to enhance the skills of the children.
• Now I Can Answer presents a variety of exercises like Fill in the Blanks, Answer in One Word, Match the Columns and many more.
• Draw and Colour, Learn and Recite and many other projects and activities are given to focus on activity-based learning.
• Assessment sheets given in the middle and at the end of each book can be used for periodic assessment.