SUMMER HOLIDAYS HOMEWORK (2019)

CLASS – VIII SUBJECT:- SOCIAL SCIENCE

1. How Plassey got its name?
2. Imagine that you are a nawab’s nephew and have been brought up thinking that you will one day
be king. Now you find that this will not be allowed by the British because of the new Doctrine of
Lapse. What will be your feelings? What will you pan to do so that you can inherit the crown?
3. Collect pictures, stories, poems and information about any of the following-
i)The Rani of Jhansi
ii) Haider Ali
4. Write some principles of sustainable development.
5. Read the table 2.1: land use in selected countries. (Page no. 10, Land, Soil, Water, Natural
vegetation and wildlife). Study the above table and answers the following:-
i) Name the countries having the highest percentage of land under cropland, forest, pastures
and other uses.
6. Collect the pictures of :-
i) Terrace farming
ii) Shelter belts and
iii)Contour ploughing.

Write few lines about these.

7. Paste or draw the pictures of Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar and mention some information about
them.
8. Map skills: locating and labelling on political map of India:-
i) A) Satara, Nagpur ( Maharashtra)
B) Sambalpur (Odisha)
C) Udaipur (Rajasthan)
D) Jhansi and Awadh (U.P.)

ii) A) Lucknow- U.P.

B) Calcutta- W.B.

C) Mysore- Karnataka

D) Hydrabad- Telangana

E) Bombay- Maharashtra

F) Madras- Tamil Nadu

G) Delhi- Capital of India

9. Learn the Preamble of Indian Constitution.

R.KUMAR

TGT- SOCIAL SCIENCE