Holidays Homework -2014

Class- IX

English

Note : Make one folder and add pastel sheets.

  1. Design a project on the poet William Wordsworth.
  1. Life sketch
  2. Age to which the poet belonged
  3. Relevance of his poems
  4. Explanation of the poem ‘The Solitary Reaper’
  1. Understand the concept of ‘Modals’ and complete the same in the workbook.
  1. Use minimum ten ‘Homophones’ and explain them with pictures or sentences on the pastel sheets.
  1. Read the novel ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. Describe and write your views about any part which you liked the most and Why?

MATHS:

  1. Hands on activity;
  1. Draw a Pie chart depicting the performance (m terms of percentage of matches won) of each team DLF-IPL T-20 Tournament

Or

Draw a Pie chart depicting the performance (m terms of percentage of matches won) of each team in Championship League2014- Football Tournament

b.Draw a histogram depicting the no. of seats won by 5 main seat gainers (nationalpolitical parties) in Lok SabhaElections 2014

c. Prepare a chart on irrational numbers and represent them graphically

d. Represent square root spiral on a cardboard/ sheet by using cut and paste method .

2. Choose a topic from history of mathematics andprepare a PROJECT on any one.

3. Design a 4X4cross-word puzzle with numbers from 1 to 9 on an A 4 size ivory sheet. Explain its working seperately.

4. Tabulate the number of faces (F), edges (E) and vertices for the following polyhedronscuboids, Triangular pyramid, Triangular prism, and pyramid with square base and prismwith square base.

Verify the Euler’s Formula F + V - E = 2 in each case.

5 . Solve the following puzzles;

  1. Jack and his wife went to a party where four other married couples were present. Every person shook hands with everyone he or she was not acquainted with. When the handshaking was over, Jack asked everyone, including his own wife, how many hands they shook. To his surprise, Jack got nine different answers. How many hands did Jack's wife shake?

b. How many squares are there in the grid ?

c If 8 crows can steal 8 buttons in 8 minutes,how many buttons can 16 crows steal in 16 minutes?

d. A domino is exactly the same size as two squares of a standard 8x8 chessboard. 32 dominoes can be arranged to tile the chessboard with no

gapsor overlaps. Iftwo diagonally opposite corner squares are removed, is

it possible to tile the remaining 62 squares with 31 dominoes ?

REVISE YOUR SYLLABUS AND PRACTICE ALL QUESTIONS OF YOUR TEXT BOOK EXCERSISES OF ALL CHAPTERS DONE IN CLASS.

Happy Holidays……………………

GEOGRAPHY

  1. Make a project report on any of the following topics –

a)Natural Disaster

b)Man made disaster

  1. Following points should be kept in mind while making the project –

a)Project report should be hand written.

b)Number of pages should be around 15 – 20 pages.

c)Well illustrated with examples, maps, diagrams and pictures.

d)Bind the project in a simple folder.

F.I.T.

Q.1. Create a poster on any one topic given below:

(i) Summer Camp(ii) Careers in computers(iii) Global Warming

Q. 2. What are computer ethics?

Q. 3. What is a computer virus? How it can be used in a positive way?

Q. 4. In computer terms, what is the difference between a hacker and a cracker?

Q. 5. Try video conferencing using skype and write the steps for the above procedure.

Q. 6. Download one patriotic song for the special assembly of your house and convert it into MP3 and write steps for it.

Q. 7. Create your account at G-mail and write steps for it.

Q. 8. Try picture editing and write steps for it.

PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY

Note: Do this holiday homework in a separate notebook

Q1. During summer vacation, observe the odometer and speedometer of your vehicle while your journey .note the reading after every 10 minutes ( roll no. 1-15)

1. Graphically represent the distance –time and velocity time graph.

2. Indicate the type of motion and slope of graph.

3. Calculate the speed and acceleration if it is uniform.

4. Write the range and calculate the least count of both speedometer and odometer.

Q2. Make a project report on ”ENERGY A BOON OR BLESS” ( roll no. 16-30)

Content

1. Introduction about energy

2. Different Forms of energy

3. Advantages and disadvantages

Q3. Make a flash card on elements of atomic no1-20 ( roll no. 31 onwards)

1. Indicate name, symbol, number of electron, proton and neutron.

2. Write electronic configuration

3. Draw energy level diagram for each element.

Q4. Make a model on

  1. Bio gas plant ( roll no. 1-15)
  2. Rutherford model of an atom. ( roll no. 16-30)
  3. Any working model related to reflection of sound. ( roll no. 31 onwards)

BIOLOGY

Q1. Prepare a project report on the following topic according to your roll numbers.

Roll nos. Topics

1-10 GREEN REVOLUTION

11-20 BLUE REVOLUTION

21-30 SILVER REVOLUTION

31 ONWARDS WHITE REVOLUTION