Academic Enrichment Drive in KGBVS

Physical Science - 10 January, 2020.

Subject : Physical Science
A. Activities common to all Classes
I) Display:
a. Display of Scientists Photos/Picture/Charts available in School and their inventions.
b. Display of Diagrams that are in text books in the form of Colorful Drawings in Charts/
Rangoli on Floor
c. Display / Demonstration of Models made by students.
d. Display of photos/information about National Level Science Institutions/ Centers such as
National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB),
International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Indian Institute of
Chemical Technology (IICT) etc.
e. Display of pictures of Noble Prize winners of Indian origin in Physics & Chemistry.
f. Display of important principles, formulae, equations etc.
II) Enhancing Scientific temper / attitude among students:
a. Showing of Science related reasons in natural phenomenon, magic and Tricks that occurs in
society by means of hands on experiences/Expert exhibits/videos.
( Eg: Eclipses, Fire from Drinking water/ blood from lemon/ Lifting a rice bowl with knife
piercing in it)
c. Conduct Seminars/Discussion forums/Poster presentation/Quiz/Elocution/Drama etc.., about
ways to utilize Renewable resources like solar energy for future sustainable development of
human life.
d. Establish Science Corners to invite innovative ideas to overcome challenges to humans like
pollution control, Deforestation / traffic problem.
e. Maintain a school level Science magazine with all science related information, tricks, did you
know activities
III) Enacting Scientists:
The Students shall dress up as famous Scientists and talk about their inventions in detail.
B. Class wise activities :
Class VI:
Activity
Guidelines
* Making iron in to temporary magnet with magnets,
Playing
preparation of toys working with Magnetism.
* Water cycle,
Poster preparation
Saving water resources (Rain water harvesting)
Collection of Materials Opaque / Transparent / Translucent Objects
and exhibit
Story of bulb,
* Give some mixtures like water & salt / camphor &
powdered Salt etc., and ask children to Separate the Mixtures
Challenge game
using Separating techniques
* Drawing an outline shape of her own hand palm and asking
to measure its area.
* Prepare a magnetic compass
Field visit and Interview
* Visit nearby weavers home if possible and interview about
Steps involved in Making cloth from fibers.
* Simple electric circuits, Torch light,
Models preparation * Measuring tools (scale)
* Pin hole camera

Class VII :
Activity
Lab Activity
Activity
Poster/Chart
preparation
Collection of
Information
Guidelines
Testing of Food components.
Testing the laws of reflection on plane mirror.
* Air exerts pressure, Air expands on Heating and Hot air is
lighter than normal air. Etc,.
* Creating cyclone in glass using straws.
* Pictures of food that rich in Carbohydrates, Proteins,Fats,
Vitamins and Fibre etc.
* Chart showing characteristics and sources of various Acids,
Bases and Salts.
* Flow chart of showing process of obtaining wool cloth.
* Chart showing symbols of some electrical apparatus.
* Process of obtaining fiber from animals and making them in to
cloth.
* News paper and other printed/collected
material/charts/graphs/pictures about climate and its change
* Exhibits of Clinical, Celsius, Fahrenheit, Digital and Six's
maximum and minimum thermometers. And explaining their
functioning
* Collection of different types of soils present around them and
explain their properties. And Finding ways to Conserve the
fertility of soil.
* Project work to identify various types of motion. Viz.,
Translatory, Rotatory and Circulatory
* Giving electrical apparatus like wires, batteries, key, bulbs etc.,
and asking them to make simple electrical circuit, connecting
electrical bulbs and batteries in series and parallel.
* Taking out a cotton ball from a bottle by blowing air
* Blowing out a thermocol ball from a funnel etc,.
* Writing pattern of different names as they appear in plane
mirrors.
Visiting nearby sewage water treatment plant. And interviewing
about the processes involved in it.
* Rain gauge, Anemometer.
* Periscope
kaleidoscope
Exhibit
Project Work
Challenge game
*
Field visit and
Interview
Models preparation
Class VIII :
Activity
Lab Activity
Guidelines
* To find the limiting force that can be borne by different kinds
of threads.
* Identifying Thermoplastics and Thermosetting plastics by flame
test.
* To know the reaction of oxygen with metals and non-metals.
* Identifying pitch or shrillness of a sound.
* Verification of laws of reflection

Activity
Poster/Chart
preparation
Collection of
Information
* To prove that oxygen helps in burning.
* Coating an iron key with copper by electroplating method.
* To find effects of charged bodies which have been rubbed by
different materials.
* To show that Sound has energy.
* Testing the electric conductivity of liquids
* Drawing graphs of motion for various types of speeds
* Free Body Diagram of a car moving with uniform speed.
* Poster preparation to save Environment from indiscriminate use
of plastic.
* Chart/Drawing of Universal Recycling Symbol and Exhibit in
class room.
* Chart/pictures of Structure of human ear drum and Anatomy of
human larynx.
* Structure of a flame
Chart showing the Earth showing its layers.
* Collect the information of daily life applications where
reducing / increasing friction
* Uses of petroleum products with pictures.
* Different types of Synthetic fibres.(Nylon, Rayon, Acrylic &
Polyesters) and Explain their properties and uses.
* Make your own electric cell. And explain its working process.
Showing phases of moon. And Different Eclipses.
Identify different types of Forces with examples
* Concept of Force and Friction in simulations.
* Activities to prove Fermat's principle.
Burning a paper using sun light and magnifier.
Testing the effect of electric current on potato
* Telling a story like rabbit and Tortoise running story, and
asking to plot a graph of motion in for that story.
* Visit a planetarium if possible.
* Different types of musical instruments.
* Working model of seismograph
* Making Sun dial
Exhibit
Project Work
平
Fun/Challenge game
*
Field visit and
Interview
Models preparation
Class IX:
Activity
Lab Activity
Guidelines
* To observe the speed of diffusion of two gases
* Obtaining a relation between angle of incidence and angle of
refraction
* Separating the components of ink using paper chromatography,
* To find out the change in the mass before and after a chemical
reaction.
* Finding the relative density of different objects
* To find the specific heat of given solid.
* Make coin in a vessel visible by filling it with water.
* Separation of immiscible liquids using separating funnel.
* Various activities to understand scientific meaning of Work.
Activity

* Chart showing Separation of components of air and show it class

room.
Poster/Chart
preparation
*
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Collection of
Information
*
Exhibit
* Chart showing Names of Elements, their Symbol.
Diagram on concept of mole
Applications of total internal reflection
Uses of various Colloids and Suspensions in our daily life.
Story of discovering Archimedes law.
* Uses of multiple reflection of sound
* Make rocket balloon and explain the third law of motion
* Make a light ray box/bottle and explain Refraction and TIR.
Types of Chemical Reactions
Prepare a working model of Hydraulic jack using Syringes and
Explain the principle of Pascal's law.
* Use Simple pendulum and explain Conservation of Mechanical
Energy.
* Use a Slinky and Explain various types of Vibrations /Sound
Waves and explain Characteristics of Waves.
* Finding average speed of their class mates - 100 metre running
race.
* Possibilities of using various renewable and non-renewable
resources.
* Solving given problems in Equations of motion.
* Can you get up from a chair without bending?
* Are you able to touch your toes by bending from position of
standing against a wall
* Collect some materials and ask them whether they float or sink
in water and test their Hypothesis.
* Model showing Particles in solids, liquids and gases
* Make an angle marked disk and use straws to verify Snell's law.
Prepare a Lactometer.
* Models of Thomson's and Rutherford's atomic Models
Making A light reflecting box with balloon diaphragm and
observing vibrations of light as they appear like Light Dancing
Project Work
Fun/Challenge game
Models preparation
*
Class X:
(In the upgraded KGBVs, the students of Inter 1st & 2nd year students of MPC and BiPC Course are
also to
be involved in the activities)
Activity
Guidelines
Observing
the
types of images and measuring the object distance
and image distance from the mirror.
* Reaction of Acids and bases with Metals
Lab Activity
* Observing the types of images and measuring the object distance
and image distance from the lens
* Finding the refractive index of a prism
* To show that the ratio VII is a constant for a conductor.
* Focal length of lens depends on surrounding medium.
Activity
Creating a rainbow using water and mirror.
Faraday's law.
Preparation of Esters.
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Poster/Chart
preparation
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Collection of
Information
Exhibit
* Charts of ray diagrams of Mirrors and Lenses.
pH scale
* Structure of human eye and Defects of eye.
* Moeller chart
* Modern periodic table.
* Froth flotation process for the concentration of sulphide ores
Magnetic separation
* Blast furnace
* Reverberatory furnace.
Importance of pH in everyday life
* Raman's effect.
* Various Allotropes of Carbon and its uses and Properties
* Prepared Shapes of some molecules and explain them.
* Series and Parallel connection of resistors and Fining equivalence
resistance.
* Lines of magnetic field by using iron fillings and magnet.
* Electric moor and its working
* Electric generator and it's working.
Finding of least distance of distinct vision of class students.
* Visit near by eye hospital and interview the doctor about defects of
eye and methods to correct them.
Giving an unbalanced chemical equation and ask to balance it.
Writing of electronic configuration.
* Built an atom in simulations.
* Skit on formation of lonic and Covalent bond.
* Concept of Resistance
* Ohm's Law
* Giving some carbon compounds and asking their IUPAC names.
And Giving an IUPAC name of carbon compound and asking them
to Write its formulae.
Project Work
Field visits and
Interview
*
Fun/Challenge game
*
Models preparation
* Solar cooker.
Electromagnetic wave
Shapes of orbitals in s, p and d sub-shells
* 3D models of NaCl atom structure.
* Working model of solenoid.
* Ring elevator using electromagnetic induction principle.
* 3D structure of a micelle
School Level Activities:
Any female science teacher/lecturer may be invited as the chief guest and a talk may be organized-on
science and technology in today's world.
a) For Display:
All instruments, apparatus, models, specimen, slides etc., available in physics lab.
b) Activities:
Report on the fortnightly science activities by a student
Science talks- by students on (i) Carbon Compounds, (ii) Moeller's diagram (iii) Climate
Change
.

Consolidation of interview with eye specialist- Myopia, Hyper metropia;

Demonstration Activities- Creating cyclone in glass using straws; Lactometer
Skits on
i) lonic and Covalent Bonds.
ii) Conservation of energy/natural resources.
iii) Avoiding usage of single use plastic.
iv) Where did planet Pluto go?
Science Drama- Climate Change- depicting reasons, consequences and solutions/alternate
options.
Enacting Scientists - Best of all from classroom activities,
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