SAINIK SCHOOL CHANDRAPUR

ACADEMIC SESSION 2022-23

SUMMER VACATION
PROJECT WORK
SUBJECT -SCIENCE
CLASS-9TH
INSTRUCTION: - PREPARATION OF ALL THREE GIVEN PROJECTS ARE
COMPULSORY AND NECESSARY

1. Cell Project: Board Game or Song/Television Video

Think a little outside the box and create a board game or cool song/video about
the parts of a plant or animal cell.
Song & Video Guidelines/Instruction
You must include information about the organelles and what they do for the
cell. - If you like, you can include information about both plant/animal cells and
compare, or you may focus on one type of cell only. - Your project must be
educational, with the goal of teaching the concepts in an interesting and unique
way on Water Pollution
2. Make a 3-D model of the J J Thomson Model (plum pudding model) and also
elaborate on this statement “which subatomic particle was not present in the
Thomson Model of an atom”.

3. Construct a three-dimensional (3D) model of either a plant or animal cell. Show

all parts listed below and number all parts.

Guidelines/Instruction
Use common materials such as Styrofoam, cardboard, wood, paper, cereal,
play-dough, string, buttons, pipe cleaners, beads, yarn, etc. • Be creative, you
do not need to spend serious money to make this model • Do not use jelly,
edible fruits, vegetables, or anything that will spoil.

ASSIGNMENT -9TH

1. Give reasons for the following observation:

 The smell of hot sizzling food reaches you several meters away, but to get the
smell of cold food you have to go close.

2. Why does a desert cooler cool better on a hot dry day?

3. How does the water kept in an earthen pot (matka) become cool during
summer?

4. What type of clothes should we wear in summer?

5. Convert the following temperatures to the Kelvin scale.

6. (a) 25° C
(b) 373° C.

7. Why is ice at 273 K more effective in cooling than water at the same
temperature?

8. What is evaporation? What are the factors affecting it?

9. Classify the following as chemical or physical changes:

• cutting of trees,
• melting of butter in a pan,
• rusting of almirah,
• boiling of water to form steam,
• passing of electric current, through water and the water breaking down into
hydrogen and oxygen gases,
• dissolving common salt in water,
• making a fruit salad with raw fruits, and
• burning of paper and wood.

10. Write the steps you would use for making tea. Use the words solution, solvent,
solute, dissolve, soluble, insoluble, filtrate and residue.

11. Explain the following giving examples.

(a) saturated solution

(b) pure substance
(c) colloid
(d) suspension