ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL SHANKAR VIHAR

CLASS 8
SCIENCE ACTIVITY FILE WORK
ACTIVITY 1: To separate healthy seeds from unhealthy ones 
Materials: Seeds to be tested (mixture of healthy and damaged seeds), water, beaker
Procedure/Observation: Take some water in a beaker and add seeds to be tested to it.
When seeds are poured in water, they begin to float. After few hours, mature viable seeds
absorb water and sink to the bottom of the beaker. Empty, immature or damaged seeds and
other light material remain floating and can be skimmed off after an appropriate period of
time. In this way, healthy mature and viable seeds can be separated from damaged,
immature and non-viable seeds.

ACTIVITY 2: Collection of various types of seeds from Rabi and Kharif Crops
Theory: