7 evaluation and 11 open-opinion prompts in a class-6 book — the earliest substantial open demand found anywhere in the corpus.
The same event, taught two opposite ways, in the same school year
Punjab's class-6 history instructs pupils to prove a contested theory; Sindh's class-6 social studies tells them most historians reject it. Both are current books, and both are an eleven-year-old's first encounter with how history is decided.
Punjab's History 6 admits on the page that “We do not know why this civilization came to an end.” The exercise beneath that sentence then requires the pupil to prove one of the competing explanations anyway. Sindh's Social Studies 6, written for children of exactly the same age, does the reverse — it carries 7 evaluation and 11 open-opinion prompts, the earliest substantial open demand found anywhere in the corpus. Neither board has better evidence about the Indus Valley than the other. What differs is what each has decided an eleven-year-old is permitted to conclude.
“Justify that Indus Valley people did not learn the warfare nor developed their trade, and therefore, were easily defeated by Aryans.”Sindh Social Studies 6, 2016 edition
What the books say
Each entry below is the catalogue's own record for that book on that axis, printed as it stands.
Against this
Sindh Textbook Board, Social Studies 6 (Sindh Curriculum 2015), printed p. 46: "But most historians do not believe this theory as there is no evidence of war or mass killings."
Limits
The Punjab instruction sits on the same page as the book's own admission that "We do not know why this civilization came to an end." The narrative concedes uncertainty; the exercise then requires the pupil to argue one cause as settled.
Boards and confidence
PunjabSindh high confidence
Confidence reflects the evidence tier this rests on. High means native or English-medium text verified by exact string match; medium means it depends partly on Urdu-medium material read at theme grade, or on an absence. See the method.
Source
Sindh Social Studies 6, 2016 edition
The Punjab side is History 6, Experimental Edition (SNC 2022), printed p. 28 — the book carries no scored evidence record of its own on this axis.
Cite this finding
Textbook Evidence Project, “The same event, taught two opposite ways, in the same school year”. Evidence from 1 textbook (Sindh). Corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from https://textbookevidence.com/findings/same-event-opposite-pedagogy/
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