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NEWSLETTER July 2011

Class:-IX FRENCH:

Students of class 9 worked on presenting five famous monuments in France. They did this with the help of posters and a brief description on the importance of each in French. BIOLOGY: Using chickens eggs to demonstrate osmosis: It may be hard for chick to break through a eggshell but what if it could make the shell dissolve; it was amazing to see the shell dissolve in dilute Hydrochloric acid. We have seen a lot of hardboiled eggs but students were amazed to see an unboiled egg without the shell. The students caught on to the concept of Osmosis by watching the shell-less egg swell when placed in water and shrink when put in salt solution. Students enjoyed the activity thoroughly. DNA EXTRACTION: DNA-the finger print of life Watson and Crick proposed the DNA structure. But class 9 students felt the same excitement while they learnt to extract DNA from the banana pulp and observed them under the microscope. The most fascinating aspect was that they extracted DNA not with the help of complicated procedures and apparatus but with simple materials used in their kitchen. Students were very proud of their accomplishment at the end of this activity. ENGLISH The students of class IX got an opportunity to hone their oratorical skills during their English classes. A debate on the topic Should the age for the issue of the driving license be revised and lowered? was conducted in all the IX standard classes. The students not only presented their ideas but they also learned to defend their ideas. It was a great confidence building activity

NEWS LETTER July 2011

Class:-IX GEOGRAPHY

Students are very much familiar with jigsaw puzzles. In class 9, students were given one such puzzle to solve. The Pangea cutouts were given to assemble to understand the concept of plate boundaries and the tectonic movements. The students thoroughly enjoyed this activity. () . . . ? ? . . MATHEMATICS Students of class IX did an activity on Real Numbers. They made beautiful and perfect square root spirals with great enthusiasm. Through this activity, students understood one of the ways to represent real numbers on the number line. PHYSICS Understanding Newtons three laws of motion: Nature and natures laws lay hid in night; God said Let Newton be and all was light. (Alexander Pope- an English poet) Physics can be fun. This might seem hard to believe but students of Std 9th aptly realized this. It was a simple activity but so informative and interesting that our students couldnt stop themselves saying This is awesome. They made a working model of a fan car using simple items like a 3V DC motor, 2 AA size cells, 2 pipes, 2 rubber sheets,1 AA size battery holder etc using an activity kit and a tool kit that was provided to them. The objective was to demonstrate the Newtons 3 laws of motion by studying the motion of a fan car and correlating it with the motion of different bodies we observe daily. It was an unconventional way of studying Physics without the use of a blackboard and a chalk piece. Students truly loved it.

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