HOLIDAY HOMEWORK 2015-16 CLASS VI NATURAL DISASTERS A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage, and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake, the severity of which depends on the affected population's resilience, or ability to recover. SOCIAL SCIENCE • Make a Collage on - Topic -NATURAL DISASTER Collect pictures and information from Newspapers and Magazines about the series of earthquakes that have occurred recently in Nepal (Information should include – epicenter, Richter scale, seismic focus) • • (Do not use pictures from Internet) Students are required to make the following projects in the scrap book based on 1. CH. 9 Compare the lifestyle of today’s man with the life of early man during different stone ages Including pictures and other relevant information on assignment sheets and paste them in scrap book. 2. Chap – 17 (Deccan and South India) – collect and paste pictures of any four ancient temples of South India and write in brief about them . 3. Chap – 18 (India and Outside World-- In a physical map of India locate and label the neighbouring countries of India. Write the names of neighbouring countries on A4 size sheet along with their directions. Revise the CH. 2, 10-A & 11-A ENGLISH • Study the natural calamity that has hit Nepal recently. Thousands of people lost their lives. Suggest a few mitigation practices which could have managed the disaster better. Submit your work on A4 size sheets. Optimistic Attitude helps us to overcome sorrows and hardships of life. Express your view on positive thinking by writing poetry on this theme. Revise the topics of grammar covered in Unit – 1 of the English Practice Book Website to learn and practice English Grammar – www.grammarbank.com Read and complete the exercises of Unit – 2 (Hobbies) in My English Reader. • • • • MATHS • • • Revise of Chapter 1- Natural Numbers & Whole Numbers Chapter 2 – Factors & Multiples. Do your work in Practice Notebook. Collect the data from 20 families in your locality on awareness of mitigation practices to be adopted during the situation of earthquake/any disaster. Use the given table. S.No. Address Aware/Aware not Steps taken for safety • Make a three dimensional object or toy using at least 3 different 3D shapes. • SCIENCE Make a project according to your roll no. on the given topic :Roll No. 1 – 8 Roll No. 9 – 16 Roll No. 17 – 24 Roll No. 25 – 32 Roll No. 33 - 40 Roll No. 41 onwards Earthquake Tsunami Floods Avalanches Cyclone Typhoons a) Find out the causes, remedies and different ways of facing these natural calamities .Do the project on A4 sheets and it should be hand written. b) The same topics will be taken up for group discussion and class presentation also. • • Find an easy science experiments which you can do at home. Write down the followings steps on an A4 sheet. a) Objective b) Material Used c) Method d) Observation e) Result You can refer the following websites :www.kidsspot.com ,www.schoolofdragons.com , www.sciencebob.com Make a Gratitude Journal for 5 days as under:- Road Safety:a. Posters b. 1 Min. Movie made by mobile or handicam c. Slogans / jingles