Lord Mahavir Jain Public School

Holidays Homework

Class-IX

Dear Parents

Its vacation time again! The uphill task of keeping your little

ones fruitfully occupied must be the top most priority in your

mind. Some interesting, innovative and creative project work

has been planned for your children to enable them to widen their

horizon.

Kindly allow them to do the work under your guidance and

supervision.

Do visit museums and monuments with your children to help

them explore and learn about the rich culture and heritage of

India.

Encourage your children to observe the sign boards and note

down the instructions written on them for class discussion.

Health is wealth- Accompany your children to the

neighbourhood park and encourage them for a morning walk

and simple yoga exercises.

Setting up a routine is a must to inculcate good habits. Let your

child plan his/her daily routine for a week.

Wishing all of you a very enjoyable and fun packed summer

break

. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:

All the work should be hand-written and done neatly.

Original drawings / illustrations and creative use of material

will be appreciated. Books can be our best friends.

1. Suggested movies to watch:

The jungle book

MARTIAN

BFG

CONG THE SKULL ISLAND

Harry Potter and Sorcers Stone

2. Life skills to be inculcated:

Love for animals.

Developing Empathy.

Differentiating between needs and wants.

Staying motivated.

3. Social skills in your child:

Greeting with the smile when someone come to the

house.

Speaking politely to peer group.

Sharing with the peers.

To look after your grandparents.

4. Using the following magical words:

I am sorry.

Please

Excuse me

Thank you

May I?

Could you?

My pleasure

5. Personal hygiene:

Trimming nails regularly.

Changing clothes daily.

6. To enhance the gross motor skills of your child and

enroll them in following activities:

Aerobics

Skating

Dance

Music

Yoga

Karate

ENGLISH

Compulsory for all

Read the novel prescribed for your class and write characterization of any

four characters.

1. Attempt any one activity out of the following:

(a) Spend a day with two people in different professions (parents can help

their child iln chosing two contrasting professions). Note down their work

pattrens (what they do, how many hours they spend at week, activities

they do, clothes they wear, how do they commute). Use A-4 size sheet.

(b) Write 50 words from the newspaper that should include nouns,

adjectives and verbs. Make one sentence for each word.

(c) Prepare your own dictionary by writing 50 words from the newspaper.

Write a sentence using each word.

(d) Make a word book/vocabulary Journal. Make a list of all difficult words

of the chapters/poems read. (Syllabus of 1st term). Write meaning and two

sentences using the word.

2. Read any one book out of the following :-

1. Malgudi Days - R.K Narayan

2. Panchatantra - Vishnu Sharma

3. Charlie and the chocolate factory - Roald Dahl

Maths

1. Prepare a PPT (atleast 10 slides) on number system. 2. Draw a square root spiral on a chart paper and paste it on a thermocol

sheet. 3. Make different charts with pictures of great mathematician describing their

contribution to the field of maths. 4. Make a chart showing formulas related to volumes and surface areas of 3D

figures (Use glitter sheets, stencils and bold markers). 5. Make a chart on various algebric identites used in algebra (use glitter

sheets, stencil’s and bold markers). 6. Go for a survey over a specific area and collect a data about current

employment status of area like –

Current Status No. of people Employed full time

Employed part time Employed both full time and part time

Not employed

Prepare a bar graph and conclude what are the shortcomings and what steps can be taken to improve the current status.

SCIENCE

1. Water is used in many activities. Make a list of activities and write the

amount of water used in each activity per day. Keeping in mind that united

nation has asked to use 50 liters of water per person per day, try to reduce

the amount of water used in each activity so that you consume only 50

liters.

a) In which activity of the day, maximum water consumption is there?

b) How much water is used per day be one person of your family?

c) In which day of the week, maximum water is used by whole family?

d) Why United Nations has asked to use 50 liters of water per person per

day.

1. Which substance is used to kill the germs in water? (Roll no.-1-5)

e)

Make a record of the observations of 10 days:-

S.

No.

Day &

Date

Name

of the

person

Activities

Brushing Bathing Food

Making

Drinking

of

water

Washing

of

clothes

Others

2. Make turmeric indicator at home. Take some samples of daily routine like

common salt, lemon juice, shampoo, bathing soap, tooth paste, soft drink

etc. Differentiate them as acid, base or salt with the help of turmeric

indicator, onion juice indicator and China rose indicator. (Roll no.-6-10)

A) What is the reaction of indicator with acids and base?

B) If two solutions are given, how will you recognize which is acid or base,

with the help of turmeric solution.

C) What is universal indicator?

D) If given solution n is neither acidic nor basic, then what is it?

E) List three natural indicators.

Make a

record of

your

observations

with

different

indicators:-.

NO.

Name of

sample

Indicator

used

Acidic

(colour in

acid)

Basic

(colour in

base)

3. Collect the data for the vaccines given to new born babies up to the age of

5 years. Differentiate them on the basis of list prescribed by govt. health

department and private hospitals. (Roll no.-11-15)

Name of child Age Vaccine taken

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Write answer of these questions:-

a) How vaccines are prepared?

b) Why vaccines are important for health life?

c) How long vaccination affected?

d) Which vaccines are available in Ambala Cantt civil hospital?

e) Why it is given in younger age?

4. Study electric appliances at your home only. Check its power, voltage, rplm

etc. and make a report on it. Try to find out consumption of electricity in

KWH. (Roll no.-16-20)

a) Which has the maximum power usage appliances?

b) Name the instruments used to calculate voltage?

c) If the cost of 1 KWH is Rs. 4.80 then calculate total amount of electricity

consumed?

5. Draw the structure of plant cell and animal cell taking thermocol as base

with white chart paper. Paste each organelle made from different colour

craft paper and label them. (Roll no.-21-25)

6. Survey your neighborhood to find out

How many people suffered from disease during long term (chronic disease)

and short term (Acute Disease)? (Roll no.-26-30)

S.

No

.

Name

of

perso

n

Male/Femal

e

Age of

perso

n

Duratio

n of

disease

Name

of

diseas

e

Type

of

diseas

e

Symptom

s

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Name of electric appliances Power Voltage

8

9

10

7. Take a heavy cricket balls, drop it on a thick wet bed of sand. Drop the ball

on the sand from different height i.e. 15cm, 25cm, 35 cm etc. the ball

creates a depression. Repeat this activity maximum 10 times. (Roll no.-31-

35)

Answer the questions:-

Compare their depths.

Which one of them is deepest?

Which one the them is shallowest?

What has caused the ball to make a deeper dent?

Write the conclusion.

8. Make a survey report on five appliances at your home and note down their

voltage, power and current consumption. Calculate their energy consumption and

phenomena on which there are based. (Roll no.-36-40)

S. No. Name of

appliances

Voltage

consumed

Power

consumed

Current

consumed

Duration Energy

1

2

3

4

5

Conclusion:-

9. “ALARMING MAGAZINE” (Roll no.-41-45)

Collect at least five materials like aluminum foil, plastic containers and polythene

you are using in your daily life. Collect the information, pictures and data charts

using internet, magazines and newspapers etc. about their composition, harmful

elements present in it and their adverse effects on the body. Give suggestions to

void it.

S. No. Materials Composition Harmful

elements

Adverse

effects

Suggestions

Revise all work done in class.

Have great holidays and enjoy yourself to your heart's content.