GREENWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOL
(2014-15)
Sector – 9, Gurgaon, 4200807, 808
Name : …………………
Holiday Homework
Roll No.: ……
Note:
 Entire holiday homework has to be done on A-4 sheets. Compile H.W. for each subject separately.
 Use your creativity & make beautiful separate cover pages for each subject. ( Your Cover page can be made
using different techniques that you‟ve learnt during Art & Craft classes or any other Best-out-of-waste
material).
The integrated Homework will develop student‟s individual learning ,understanding and its implementation in
life as and when required .
This Homework has been planned in such a way that knowledge of different subjects are integrated in one task so
that the child should understand how to use the concepts learnt in class in a situation confronted by him in life.This
will help to assess a student‟s over all performance in Scholastic and Co-scholastic area as well.
This page to be pasted as page ONE of your Homework folder.
Name of the Student:…………………………
Class IX Section:- ………………………….
Subjects
Name of Activity
Scholastic
Grade
Admission No.:……………
Roll No.:-………………
Co-Scholastic Grade
(involvement in terms of Life
Skill / Visual Art / Work
Experience)
Teacher
Signature
with date
English
Hindi
Maths
SST
Science
*(To be filled by the teachers)
ENGLISH
Read the Book „Three men in a boat’
After reading the book, on the basis of it, do the following:
Design a new book cover with a new name to the
book.
a. Create the „Content Page‟ of the book.
b. Write a brief review of the book that you have read.
c. Give the character sketch of at least 2 main characters
from the book.
d. You happen to reach the place which has been
mentioned in the book and have some memorable
experiences there.
Make a diary entry (around 100 words) on those experiences. You can also watch documentary film on
„Three men in a boat‟ on YouTube.
Prepare a cover page giving the heading, subject, your name, Class & section.
1. Prepare a Questionnaire in Word Document, based on the poems you read (The Brook, The Road Not
Taken, Lord Ullin‟s Daughter and Solitary Reaper). You may include the questions related to:
 Poetic Device
 Symbolic words
 Poet
 Era
 Text of the poem
 The limit of the questions is 25-30 words.
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Social Science
HISTORY (Integrated with English)
Imagine yourself as Rush, one of the citizen of Germany under Hitler‟s reign
and pen down your experience of the period in the form of a Diary Entry.
You may take help of the following points to complete your project: Nature of Hitler‟s rule.
 Horror of the period.
 Effect on Germany.
 Your sufferings.
Prepare your Diary Entry on an A4 size sheet. (Word Limit-150)
CIVICS (Integrated with Art & Craft)
Make a collage on the struggle to establish democracy. You can give example of any part of the world. Like Cuba,
Egypt, Ukraine, etc. Give a title to your collage, for example, Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar‟s Struggle For
Democracy.
You may take help of the following steps to complete your collage: Collect the materials needed for making a paper collage.
(For example cut-outs from magazines or newsprint)
 Fold, cut or tear the paper into different shapes.
 Use ribbons, beads, string, feathers or fabric in the paper collage.
(Find these items around the house.)
 Develop a theme as shown in the picture.
 Glue the collage.
Prepare your Collage on an A4 size sheet. Decorate both the sides.
PROJECT WORK IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT
GUIDELINES FOR PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION OF THE PROJECT
1. The total length of the project report will not be more than 15 written pages of A4 size sheet.
2. The project report will be hand written and credit will be given to original drawings and creative use of
materials.
3. The project report will be presented in a neatly bound simple folder.
4. The project will be developed and presented in the following sequence:
a. Cover page (use yellow color) showing project title, students information, school and year.
b. List of contents with page number.
c. Acknowledgements (acknowledging the institution, libraries visited and persons who have helped)
d. Project overview-purpose, aim, methodology and experiences while doing the project
e. Chapters with relevant headings
f. Summary and conclusion based on findings.
g. Bibliography: should have the title, pages referred, author, publisher, name of the website if used.
h. All the photographs and sketches should be labeled and related to the theme.
i. Students may add points of their own.
TOPIC (A) - MANAGING DISASTERS-The Role of Students.
(Roll No.- 1 to 18)
Choose any man made or natural disaster which your area may be vulnerable to e.g., Gas leaks, building
collapse, rail or road accidents, laboratory accidents, health hazards due to toxic waste disposal,
earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions etc.
a. prepare a survey schedule detailing the different areas that are posing threats due to various natural
and manmade disasters in and around your school for e.g., factory/slum/dump yard located nearby.
b. collect the data and prepare a report.
c. develop posters for awareness generation in your school.
d. make a plan to deal with any one of the disasters likely to affect your school.
TOPIC (B) - PREPAREDNESS FOR A DISASTER
(Roll No.- 19 to 36)
a. create activities to make people particularly primary children and school workers aware of disaster
mitigation.
b. write a manual of instructions and make a kit list for use by teachers to manage laboratories,
classrooms, corridors, and school building security , buses etc.
c. prepare instruction to deal with any accidents in school or in bus.
Complete worksheet No H1,C1,C2,G1 & E1 from spiral Worksheet Booklet
You will duly submit the entire work on 3 rd of July 2014. Marks will be deducted for any delay in the
submission of the home work.
MATHEMATICS
1.
Project: To explore Fibonacci series.
Description: a. What is Fibonacci series?
b. Write the next 20 terms of the sequence given.
c. History of the mathematician who gave this concept.
d. Explore in nature the things (at least 6) that correspond to Fibonacci numbers with
pictures. (e.g. Many flowers such as butter cups, roses have petals that total a number
in or very close to Fibonacci series.)
Each student is required to make a hand written project report.
Lay out of the report will be as follows:
Page no
Cover page
1
2
3-6 (may change)
7
8
9
10
2.
content
Name, class Roll no. ,Title
Contents
Brief description of the project (how you would proceed)
Procedure with pictures
Mathematics involved
Conclusion /result
Resources
Acknowledgements
Solve the following questions:
a) A poor child paints a rhombus sheet from both sides @ of rupees 5 per square metre. It has a
perimeter of 200cm and one of the diagonals is 80cm. He paints 10 sheets in a day and earns money
for his livelihood.
i. How much money he earns in a day?
ii. Which moral value of child is shown here?
b) In a school fete, 3 students of Class IX stood near the stalls in a straight line with a banner in their
hand requesting not to waste the eatables and use the dust bin for throwing paper plates etc.
i. What type of points are represented by the three students?
ii. How many line segments can be drawn using 3 collinear points?
iii. What values do you learn from these children?
c) Sanjeev had a piece of land between 2km2 and 3 km2 . He wants to give four parts out of it to his
family members.
i. Calculate the four fractional parts ?
ii. Which moral value is shown by Sanjeev here?
d) A is three years older to B and 3 years younger to C, while B and D are twins. How many years older is
C than D? (Ans=2)
e) A group of 1200 persons consisting of captains and soldiers is travelling in a train. For every 15 soldiers,
there is one captain..Find the number of captains in the group? (Ans=80)
f) There are dears and Peacocks in a zoo. By counting heads they are 80. The no of legs is200. How
many peacocks are there? (Ans=60)
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g) Prove that1+√2 + √2+√3 + √3+√4 + ⋯ + √8+√9 = 2.
PHYSICS
Activity:
1.
In our everyday life, we come across a range of motions in which:
i)
Acceleration is in the direction of motion.
ii)
Acceleration is against the direction of motion.
iii)
Acceleration is uniform
iv)
Acceleration is non –uniform.
Paste pictures showing different types of motion with acceleration and identify
the above type of motion-under heading- i),ii),iii) and iv) for each picture.
2.
Accompany your father on a car or a scooter and travel from your house to some place. Keep
a watch on the odometer, note down the readings of the odometer and time taken to reach
the final destination as per the following table:
Instructions
Readings
(units)
of
odometer Noting of time (units)
When you start from your
house
After 5 minutes
After five minutes
After five minutes
After five minutes
After five minutes
After five minutes
i)
ii)
iii)
iv)
v)
vi)
Plot the Distance-time graph of the above data.
Calculate the average speed of the vehicle.
Which quantity is represented by the graph?
Which type of motion is exhibited by the vehicle?
From the graph also highlight when the vehicle had to stop at the red light or when
the road was busy.
Also highlight the region in which the vehicle travelled the fastest?
Solve the following Numericals:
a. A car starts from rest and accelerates uniformly over a time of 5.21 seconds for a distance of 110m.
What will be his final velocity?
b. A race car accelerates uniformly from 18.5 m/s to 46.1 m/s in 2.47 seconds. Determine the acceleration
of the car and the distance traveled.
c. A feather is dropped on the moon from a height of 1.40 meters. The acceleration of gravity on the
moon is 1.67 m/s2. Determine the time for the feather to fall to the surface of the moon.
d. Rocket-powered sleds are used to test the human response to acceleration. If a rocket –powered
sled is accelerated to a speed of 444 m/s in 1.8 seconds, then what is the acceleration and what
is the distance that the sled travels?
BIOLOGY
INSTRUCTIONS
The holiday home-work consists of, comic strip, a project and an assignment. This is a part of your FA2
activity and has a weightage of 15 marks i.e. Comic strip (5 marks), project (5 marks),) and assignment
(5marks).
You will duly submit all of this on 4 th of July 2014. Marks will be deducted for any delay in the submission of
the home work.
Let‟s explore what is inside the cell by making comic strip “What are cell parts and their functions”
Hint:
Topic for comic strip is “What are cells?”
Now make your own
comic strip make them
interesting and catchy
1. Make a comic strip on the given topic as allotted to your Roll No.
Topic
Roll No
 Cell Wall
(Roll No 1-4)
 Cell Membrane
(Roll No 5-9)
 Mitochondria
(Roll No 10-14)
 Lysosomes
(Roll No 13-18)
 Chloroplast
(Roll No 15-19)
 Nucleus
(Roll No 20-25)
 Vacuole
(Roll No 26-31)
 Golgi bodies
(Roll No 32-34)
 Endoplasmic reticulum
(Roll No 35-last Roll No)
by coloring
2.PROJECT: Chapter: Improvement in food Resources
Topic-Fish Production (Roll no1-10)
You can include following points.
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Introduction, fisheries types
Marine fisheries: mostly Capture( places in India where it is practiced)
Places and technique used-traditional and modern to catch fish(can view on discovery channel Great
catches)
o Important fishes and some uses of fish
o Culture Fisheries, Mari culture
o Inland Fisheries
 Capture and Culture
o Culture Fisheries
 Factors
 Composite fish culture, its advantages
 Economic importance
 Condition of fisher mans in our country
Topic-Bee keeping. (Roll no: 11-20)
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Apiculture
Honey and other products
Spices of bees
Colony of Bees
Management
Medicinal use to honey
Places and some known brand in this field.
Topic-Animal husbandry.
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(Roll no: 21-36)
Cattle Farming: dairy animals and draught
Breeds: Exotic and indigenous Buffalo
Methods of breeding- natural and artificial , breeding center in India
Care of cattle-Health and some common diseases
Dairy and Research center in India
Top five milk producing country in the world and India
Dairy products and famous brand
PROJECT GUIDELINES: GENERAL FORMAT
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Project must be hand written on A4 size paper with blue gel pen.
Make the cover attractive. Relevant to the topic .
Project file should be prepared in the following sequence:
1. Title page- Name of the school, session, subject, student‟s name & class.
2. Acknowledgement.
Index/ Table of Contents
Introduction.
Purpose/Objective of the project.
Conclusion on the basis of your observation.
Each item must begin on a fresh page.
Put a Bibliography at the end.
Take care of overall presentation: layout/ neatness/ grammar, spellings/ illustrations/ handwriting.
Final projects MUST be written LEGIBLY-HAND WRITTEN
CHEMISTRY
PROJECT
Investigatory activity- Like fish in the ocean, we humans too, live in
a giant ocean. We spend all our lives in a gigantic ocean of plasma,
but we're barely aware what it is!
Physicist Max Babi discovers the fourth state of matter- Plasma
Make a project based on the following steps
Just what is plasma?
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How does a gas become plasma?
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The uses of plasmas
Three more states of matter are recently discovered. Name them
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The zero state of matter ______________
The fifth state of matter _____________
The sixth state of matter___________________
The seven states of matter _________________
A. PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION OF PROJECT REPORT
Take care of following points while making project1. Project report should not be more than 8- 10 hand written pages of (A4 size)..
2. The project report should be developed and presented in the following order
Cover page showing project title , student information ,school and year.
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Index-List of content with page number.
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Chapters with relevant headings.
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Summary and conclusion based on findings interpretation of data.
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Bibliography: Should include sources-like books, journals and name of website.
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All the photographs and sketches should be labeled and acknowledged.
Original drawings illustrations and creative use of materials will be appreciated.
COMPUTER
Make a movie in flash on the different topics given below.
Roll No.1 To 12 –
A person is going to ATM machine and collecting the money from there &
Feeling Happy.
Roll No.13 To 24 – A person is selling the Aquarium. Make three different Aquariums in different
scene with the person showing it for selling.
Roll No. 25 To 35 - A person is going on the bike on road and has broken the traffic rules. A
Traffic police is chasing him and imprisoned him. That person is feeling
very sorry.
Note : Bring the Flash Movie in CD or Pen drive. Submit it till 5th July 2014 (Saturday).