Holiday Homework

Session 2019-20
(Primary Section)

Class III

English
1) Paste pictures of any five national flags in your notebook. Write the name of each
country, its nationality and language.

2) Write five sentences on how you celebrate your favorite festival.

Mathematics

1) Make a model of clock and write numbers on it using roman numerals.

Class IV

English
1) Take a picture of your favorite toy, paste it in your notebook. Write five sentences
about it.
2) Read any short story of your choice. Write the name of the story, names of all the
characters and moral/central idea of the story.

Mathematics
1) Make the following models, count and write its faces, corners and edges:
(i) Brick
(ii) Birthday cap
(iii) Ball
 Class V

English
1) Read an English newspaper daily for a month and select any 2 news articles that you
find interesting. Cut and paste them in your notebook. Write 5sentences about each
news article to explain why you found it interesting.

Mathematics
1) Make a bill of things which you bought from stationary shop on A-4 size sheet.
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Class VI

English
Trees are the house to various creatures. What if there is no tree left on the earth? imagine
the situation and write a paragraph on it . Paste pictures of 10 different trees.

Mathematics
1. Draw a prime and composite number chart from 1 to 100.
2. Write Roman Numerals from 1 to 100.
Science
1. Paste the different types of natural and synthetic fibre in scrapbook and write the
difference.
2. What are the harmful effects of excess intake of fat and protein.
OR
1'. make a list with pictures of food items generally taken by people of different regions
of India. Place these on a large outline Map of India.
2'. Find out the names of plants that grow in water and which are eaten as food.

Class VII

English
Squirrels play a crucial role in producing new plants. Find out how, collect information
about animal (if any) that play a role in a similar way in producing new plants.

Mathematics

Define integers and write its properties.

Science

1. Make a model of the digestive system with the help of modelling clay. Make organs
such as liver, stomach, pancreas and large intestine with clay. Rubber tubing can be
used to make the oesophagus and small intestine.
 2. Make a cross word puzzle on the topic ‘Nutrition in plants’. Visit the site
classhelper.org for making the cross word.
OR

1'. Prepare a science newspaper on chart by using articles, amazing facts, riddles,
crossword, recent discoveries in the field of science.

2'. Write a short article on ‘Lifestyle and health issue’

Class VIII

English
Write a paragraph bringing out all the similarities and differences of all the animals of the
cat family. Paste picture as well.

Mathematics

1. Define Rational Number and make a chart on the given topics.

 Natural number
 Whole number
 Integers
With the help of definition.
Science
1. Check the packets of any six types of food items like biscuits, butter, ghee, cheese, jam,
and ketchup etc. and complete the following table.

 Which type of food has the shortest best before expiry dates? Which type has the
longest?
 Write a note based on your findings.
Product name Method of packaging Expiry / best before date
(sealed bag, bottle, cans, carton, etc.)
 OR

2. If you look at the labels of T-shirts and other readymade garments, you will notice that
they specify the type of fibre used.

These labels tell us that a clothing material can either be purely synthetic or a mix of
natural and synthetic fibres. They also tell us the percentages of the different fibres used.
check the labels of various readymade garments and record information in the format
shown below.

Types of Type of Percentage Remarks (washing

garment(T-Shirt, fibre(natural/ composition of the and maintenance
pullover, etc.) synthetic/ a mix) fibre instructions)

Class IX

English
Every drop counts let’s not waste so that others may survive. Develop a story in about
(100 to 200) words with a suitable title, you may use picture to make your story
attractive.

Mathematics

1. To construct square root spiral.

2. To obtain the mirror image of a given geometrical figure with respect to the 𝑥 −
𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑠.
 Science
Physics

Solve the following problems.

1. Under what conditions is the magnitude of average velocity of an object equal to its
average
speed?
2. What can you say about motion of an object whose distance time graph is a straight
line
parallel to the time axis?
3. What is the quantity which is measured by the area occupied below velocity-time
graph?
4. Draw a velocity –time graph of a stone thrown vertically upwards and then coming
downwards after attaining the maximum height.
5. A train 100m long is to cross a river of bridge of length 800m.What time will it take to
cross the bridge? The train moves with a constant velocity of 36km/h.

Chemistry
1. Create a crossword puzzle from the chapter “Matter in Our Surroundings.”
Visit the site classhelper.org to make the crossword. Also take a print out of the
crossword generated by you.
2. Prepare a model to demonstrate movement of particles in solids, liquids and gases.
OR
2 '. Prepare a 3D chart on the topics:
(a) Interconversion of three states of matter
(b) Sublimation
3. Learn answers of In text-Questions and Exercise Questions of the Chapter “Matter
in our Surroundings”.

Biology
Perform Activity 6.1 (pg. 69) from course book, note down your observations properly
on a comments sheet and answer the following questions.
  Which of the two onions has longer roots? Why?
 Do the roots continue growing even after we have removed their tips?
 Why would the tips stop growing in the jar2 after we cut them?
Social Science
1.Make a detailed assignment on “Earth Quake as a Disaster”. Describe it’s causes,
impacts and mitigation strategies in detail.

2. Make an assignment on “Water Scarcity”. Discuss its causes, impacts and

precautionary measures with the help of diagrams & sketches.

Class X

English
Make a survey in your locality and take interview of a person who take to eat/ tobacco
and the problems faced by it.

Mathematics

To verify that the given sequence is arithmetic progression by paper cutting and pasting
method.

1. To verify that the Lengths of Tangents to a Circle from Some External Point are Equal.
Science

Physics
Answer the following questions on comments papers.
1. To trace the path of a ray of light passing through a rectangular glass slab for different
angles of incidence. From above experiment answer the following questions:
(i) Define lateral displacement and on what factors lateral displacement depends.
(ii) If the angle of incidence is increased, how does the angle of refraction change?
(iii)What relationship students work out when they measure the angle of incidence and angle
of emergence?
 2. A convex mirror produces a magnification of ½ when an object is placed at a distance of
60cm from it. Where should the object be placed, so that the size of the image becomes 1/3 of
that of the object?
3. A man is running towards a plane mirror at the rate of 2m/s. With what speed is he
approaching his own image?
4. A real image, exactly 1/5th the size of the object, is formed at a distance of 18cm from lens.
Find the focal length of the lens.
5. A convex lens of focal length 0.20m is placed in contact with a concave lens of focal length
0.25m. What is the nature of the combination. Also find out the focal length of the
combination.

Chemistry

1. Perform an activity to study electrolytic decomposition reaction, i.e., electrolysis of

water.
 Record your observation on comments paper.
 Draw a suitable diagram for the activity
 Mention the name of the gases produced in the two test tubes.
 Why one test tube has more empty space than other? Explain with reason.
 Write any two applications of electrolysis.

2. Note down the following practical in the lab manual

1. To perform and observe the following reactions and classify them into:
i. Combination reaction ii. Decomposition reaction
iii. Displacement reaction iv. Double displacement reaction
(a) Action of water on quick lime.
(b) Action of heat on ferrous sulphate crystals.
(c) Iron nails kept in copper sulphate solution.
(d) Reaction between sodium sulphate and barium chloride solution.
2. (i) To observe the action of Zn, Fe, Cu and Al metals on the following salt solutions.
(a) ZnSO4(aq) (b) FeSO4(aq) (c) CuSO4(aq) (d) Al2(SO4)3(aq)
(ii) Arrange Zn, Fe, Cu and Al (metals) in decreasing order of reactivity based on the above
result.
Biology
Perform Activity 6.7 (pg. 105) from course book, note down your observations properly
on a comments sheet and answer the following questions.
 Find out what is the normal range of haemoglobin content in human beings
 Is it same for children and adults?
 Is there any difference in the haemoglobin levels for men and women?

Social Science
1. Prepare an assignment on “Tropical Cyclone” in the Indian ocean in detail.
Use diagrams to explain.

2. Make an assignment on “Water disputes among the Indian states”.

Use diagrams to explain.

Class XII

English
Read the re included chapters from the prescribed books flamingo and Vistas and write
their summary in your words ( 80-100 words each)

Mathematics

1. To demonstrate a function which is one-one but not onto.

2. To demonstrate a function which is not one-one but is onto.
3. To verify Rolle’s Theorem.
Physics
1. To investigate electromagnetic induction of rotating magnetic field with a simple easy
to build generator.
2. To investigate full wave rectifier using diodes and centre-tapped 12 AC transformer.
3. To calculate the unknown resistances using two fixed resistors and a variable resistor.
(Wheatstone bridge)
4. To investigate a zener diode, its working and reverse break down voltage.
5. To investigate capacitors charging and discharging with resistors and time constants.
6. To verify the Kirchhoff’s law’s and ohm’s law.
7. To design an appropriate logic gate of NOR and NAND gate.
8. To design an appropriate logic gate of OR and AND gate.
9. To investigate the transistor as an amplifier and switch: cut off, active and saturation
regions.
10. To investigate a DC motor and studying relation between RPM and voltage.
11. To study infra-red radiations emitted by different sources using photo-transistors.
12. To compare effectiveness of different materials as absorber of sound.
13. To study the luminosity of various electric lamps of different powers.
14. To study the Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction using a copper wire wound
over an iron rod and a strong magnet.

Chemistry
1. Study of colloidal systems and their applications.
2. Study the effect of potassium bi sulphate as food preservative under various conditions
(temperature, concentration, time etc.).
3 Study the digestion of starch by salivary amylase and effect of temperature and pH on it.
4. Extraction of essential oils present in aniseed (saunf), carum (ajwain) and cardamom (illaichi ).
5. Study of common food adulterants in fat, oil, butter, sugar, turmeric powder, chilli powder and
pepper.
6. Study the rate of fermentation of juices.
7. Determination of contents of cold drinks
8. Study of rate of fermentation of wheat flour.
9. Neutralizing ability of different antacids.
10. Chemical analysis of different fertilizers.
11. Sterilization of different samples of water using bleaching powder.
12. Use of exothermic reactions.
13.Comparision of foaming capacity of different soaps.
14. Use of zeolites as fertilizers.
15. Determination of content of caffeine in tea samples.
16. Study the constituents of different alloys.
17. Study of insecticides and pesticides present in fruits and vegetables.
18. Study of content of ascorbic acid in citrus fruits.
19. Study of rate of diffusion of solids in liquids.
20. Correlation between conductivity and corrosion.
21. Green Chemistry: Bio diesel and bio petrol.
22. Methods of synthesis and characterization of self-healing polymers.
23. Comparison of rate of evaporation of different liquids.
24. Effect of acid rain on limestone rock.

Biology
1. Asexual mode of reproduction
2. Dihybrid cross
3. Incomplete and co- dominant traits
4. Cell cycle
5. DNA fingerprinting
6. Human genome project
7. Karyotype and structure of chromosome
8. Evidence of Evolution
9. Natural selection
10. Immunity and types of immunity
11. Cancer
12. AIDS
13. Apiculture
14. Pisciculture
15. Tissue culture
16. Bt – crop
17. Microbes in human welfare
18. Recombinant DNA technology
19. DNA replication
20. Transcription
21. Translation
22. Chromosomal disorders
23. Drugs and alcohol abuse
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