NCERT Solutions · Class 9 Social Science Understanding Social Science

Go to NCERT's School Bhuvan portal at https://bhuvan-app1.nrsc.gov.in/mhrd_ncert/ and bring your village or city on to the screen, either by searching its name or by zooming in on the satellite view.

Fix three landmarks first — the main road, a river, canal or tank, and your school. Everything else is easier to place once these are set.

Mark the features you want to show: school, health centre, market, bus stop, place of worship, pond.

The portal's tools and buttons are not described in the chapter and may differ from one version to the next. If you cannot find a way to mark points or save your work, take a screenshot of the view and add the labels by hand, or trace the outline on paper — the map is still yours.

The map has to be made by you: the book supplies the tool, not the answer.

Example only: a student mapping a small town might mark the railway line, the weekly market and two ponds at the edge, and then notice that houses crowd along the road and thin out towards the fields.

Your own place, named, with a title and direction shown.

At least five features that you can also see on the ground.

One sentence of geography, not just labels: say why something sits where it does. The chapter says Geography asks where things are, why they are found there, and how places affect one another.

A note of what the portal could not show you — a footpath, a new house, a shop that has closed. This is where your own observation adds to the satellite image.

The chapter lists maps, globes, atlases and GIS among the tools Geography uses to investigate questions.

Mapping your own locality is that tool put to work on a place you already know well.