 ACTIVITIES TO STIMULATE CREATIVITY.

S.NO. SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES AS HOME ASSIGNMENTS

1. What happens when we put ink on a blotting paper?

2. Study the germination of different seeds such as pea, gram, beans, maize etc.

3. Make a file for the collection of life sketches different scientists. Write the contribution of each scientist.

4. Record the maximum and minimum temperatures daily for seven days or so.

5. Take cycle valves and make a structure of graphite.

6. Keep cut flowers in different glass tumblers containing (i) ordinary water and water containing (ii) NaCl (iii) aspirin (iv) KMno 4 and (v) lemon juice. Observe the flower after 1/2/3 days. Record the changes in the flowers in different tumbler. Derive your conclusion.

7. Record the resemblances of different physical characteristics (say five) between your parents (father and mother) and you, your brothers, you sisters and identify which characteristic has been inherited from whom.

8. What happens when ice cubes are put in a glass containing water?

REMARKS/OBSERVATIONS, IF ANY.

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One end of a blotting paper strip is dipped into water containing a mixture of two or three different coloured inks. Study what happens as the soaking takes place.

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Record your observations in a tabular form.

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Write a typical event or characteristic phenomenon related to each of the scientists, if you know, Draw your inference from those.

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Study the variation. Can you infer anything?

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Using cycle valve-tubes and match sticks make structures of graphite and hydrocarbons.

7. The objective has to be specified. Answer may be related to flotation of ice or formation of dew or melting. Students may be asked to derive conclusion or suggest application for each.

9. In a glass containing some water, add sugar gradually spoon by spoon and dissolve it. Note the stage at which sugar remained undissolved. Try whether you can dissolve (i) NaCl (ii) CuSO4 in thatsolution. Suggest some ways by which those can be dissolved.

10. Collect flowers from neighbourhood area. Write their common names and the botanical name.

11. Take a few iron nails and keep it under different conditions as regards water, air and vaseline. Study the rusting that may take place. Derive your inference. Suggest how one can control the rusting.

12. At a given place (home or class room), investigate the factors responsible for any one of the following pollutions :-

(i) Air pollution (ii) Water pollution (iii) Noise pollution.

13. Collect pieces of different types of dress materials (from a tailor's shop). Observe and record how they burn. Draw your conclusion for safety point of view.

14. Prepare a meal chart taken by you in one week. Record what vitamins, minerals, fat or food content do you get from each food. Try -to estimate the calories provided by each of the food item. Suggest something that can be added to improve the quality of a particular food item.

15. Prepare a record changes of weather changes taking place during a period of 10/15 days.

16. Suggest how will you teach Mathematics by using whatever available in the kitchen as teaching aids and examples.

17. Suggest a design to improve the utility of storage space in (i) your kitchen (ii) a shop.

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In case it you do not know the botanical name ask your teacher or take help of books. Get an flower unknown to you. Suggest its common name and botanical name and justify your suggestion.

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Suggest remedies to minimise the pollution.

16. Field of reaching the subject has to be limited otherwise the answer becomes to vast and uncontrollable.

18. What precautions/medicine people (i) used to take 50 years ago (ii) take at present and (iii) possibly take in future for the following diseases :

(a) Cough and Cold (b) Headache (c) Indigestion (d) Sprain in muscle.