DAV Public School

Sector-VI, Dwarka

Session 2016-17
CLASS VIII

Learning is not attained by chance. It

must be sought for with ardour and
attained to with diligence.

Dear Children
Summer Holidays! These words sound so relaxing and enjoyable. We all look forward
to them. But the arrival of the holidays doesnt mean learning has to stop. Its not
just the time to kick off school shoes and pack up our text books. Its also the time to
add some zest and rejuvenate our selves by doing something creative, exploring new
places, doing interesting summer vacation assignments and projects, thus keeping our
selves engaged in learning and achieve academic success.
Dear Children there are plenty of worthwhile things to do during school holidays.
Here are some ideas to mix quality time with learning:
Watch documentaries on History, National Geographical, TLC and Discovery
channel.
Learn new skills like public speaking, cooking and baking, swimming, playing
musical instruments, drawing, sculpture or pick up new hobbies like photography,
dancing, gardening etc.
Visit museums and places of historical and heritage interest. This will make you
more knowledgeable and leave feeling inspired.
Reconnect with friends, relatives and family members.
Enjoy nature by going for a trek or visiting a nature reserve.
Improve your vocabulary and writing skills.
Create a summer diary; take photos of special days and write about them. It will
become a lovely memory book for you in the future.
Improve your physical health. Take early morning and evening walks with your
parents and enjoy their company.
Use summer break time to rejuvenate before you gear up for the post vacation
session.
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ENGLISH
1. Prepare a bookmark. Decorate it and write an inspirational quotation by a well
known poet or author. Laminate and present it beautifully
2. Watch any English movie and write its review. The review should carry the following details
about the film:
a) Its title
b) The name of the director
c) The names of the writer and the actors of the story
d) Genre- what kind of a film it is: whether it is a cartoon film, a comedy, a tragedy or a
historical drama
e) The best thing about the film and the thing about it that you did not like.
f) Why should people watch it?
Do your work on A4 sheets. You can add pictures, photographs or drawings to make your
work impressive.
3. Prepare a scrap file of idioms. Ensure that you write minimum 20 idioms with their meaning
and usage.
Note: Writing is the painting of the voice Voltaire
Give words to your thoughts, emotions and imagination. Write articles,
paragraphs, poems, stories or anything you feel interesting for the School
Magazine. The write-ups should be self-composed and original.




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MATHEMATICS
ASSIGNMENT
Topics covered: (i) Squares and square roots.
(ii) Cubes and cube roots
(iii) Direct and inverse variations
Q1. Find the square root of the following:
(i) 0.374544

(ii)

Q2. Write a Pythagorean triplet whose smallest number is 18.

Q3. How many numbers lie between the square of 25 and 26.
Q4. Evaluate

correct upto two places of decimal.

Q5. Evaluate (i)

(ii)

(iii)
Q6. Find the least number which must be subtracted from 7,581 to obtain a perfect
square. Find this perfect square and its square root.
Q7. Find the least number of 4 digits which is a perfect square. Also find the square
root of the number so obtained.
Q8. What is that decimal number which when multiplied by itself gives 0.374544?
Q9. In an auditorium the number of rows is equal to the number of chairs in each
row if the capacity of the auditorium is 2,025, find the number of chairs in each
row.
Q10. Sumit a student of Class VIII saw a number of people sleeping on the footpath
at night and shivering with cold. When he came back home he told everything to
the people in his colony. To rehabilitate the homeless they decided to build a home
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for homeless. The total amount collected was Rs. 17,34,489. The number of
families is as much as the equal amount collected from each family.
(i) Find the amount collected from each family.
(ii) What is the value exhibited by this act of Sumit.
Q11. The area of the square plot is 1,500m2. Find the estimated length of the side
of the plot.
Q12. Divide the number 26244 by the smallest number so that the quotient is a
perfect cube. Also find the cube root of the quotient.
Q13. Find the smallest number by which 1372 be multiplied to make it a perfect
cube. Also, find the cube root of the number so obtained.
Q14. Find the cube root of
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Q16. Find the cube root of -226981 through estimation method.

Q17. Evaluate
Q18. Find the volume of a cube whose surface area is 216 m2.
Q19. A train 240m long is running at a speed of 90km/hr. How much time will it
take to cross a railway bridge 360m long?
Q20. A school has 8 periods a day, each of 45 minutes duration. How long would
each period be, if the school has 9 periods a day, assuming the number of school
hours to be the same.
Q21. If 15 workers can build a wall in 48 hours, how many workers will be required
to do the same work in 30 hours.
Q22. 35 workers build a house in 160 days. How many days will 28 workers take to
build the same house, working at the same rate.
Q23. A garrison of 300 men had food for 20 days. However 50 men leave. How
many days will the food last now?
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Q24. If the cost of 8 kgs potatoes is Rs. 88, find

(i) Weight of potatoes bought for Rs. 60.50.
(ii) The cost of 17 kgs of potatoes.
Q25. A car can finish a certain journey in 12 hours at the speed of 45 km/hr. By how
much should its speed be increased so that it takes only 10 hours to complete the
same journey.
Q26. Cost of 10 articles is Rs. 40. How many articles can be bought for Rs. 84?
Q27. A train whose speed is 75 km/hr crosses a tree in 12 seconds. Find the length
of the train.
Q28. Sunil starts his journey to a certain place by a car at 7 am. and reaches the
place at 12 Noon, if he drives the car at a speed of 40 km/hr. By how much should
he increase the speed so that he can reach the place by 11 am.
Q29. In a farm there are 20 animals and their food provision is expected to last for
8 days. After 2 days, 10 more animals join the farm. For how many days will the
provision last now?
Q30. The total cost of 75 newspapers is Rs. 225. Find the cost of 90 newspapers.

SCIENCE
Roll No. 1-25: Make a short movie (5 min) on Conservation of endangered species.
Roll No. 25 onwards: The Delhi Government recently came up with the Odd-Even
formula. Did it help Delhi succeed in its fight against pollution? Make a PowerPoint
Presentation to express your views.
Note: Revise the chapters done in the class.

ART & CRAFT

Make a 3D or 2D showpiece using waste material (20 X 10)

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SOCIAL SCIENCE
1. Prepare a scrap file on the following social religious reformers who contributed
to the reformation of Indian society in 19th century.
Roll No.u
1-5

Religion
Swami Dayanand Saraswati

6-10
11-15

Shri Narayan Guru

Jyotiba Phole

16-20

Veerasalingam Kandukuri

21-25
26-30

Periyar E.V.Ramaswamy
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

31-35
36-40

Mahatma Gandhi
Swami Vivekanand

41-45
46-50

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Guidelines
a) Paste related pictures of respective socio-religious leaders, mention their
teachings, name of the society by them, their teachings and the specific social field
in which they brought reforms.
b) Project must be neat, hand written, creative, informative & should be supported
by facts & pictures.
c) Project will be assessed for Fa2 activity.

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Multidisciplinary Project Sources of Energy

Subject
English

Description

Specific Guidelines

Prepare a PowerPoint Presentation on the following

topics:
Solar Energy

(Roll Nos. 1 to 7)

Wind Energy

(Roll Nos. 8 to 14)

Tidal Energy

(Roll Nos. 15 to 21)

Hydel Energy

(Roll Nos. 22 to 28)

Geothermal Energy

(Roll Nos. 29 to 35)

Energy obtained from Biomass

(Roll Nos. 36 to 42)

Solar Energy

(Roll Nos. 43 to 50)

The first slide of the

PPT should contain
the name of the topic
and the group
members.
The content of the
PPT should be
impressive, original
and well organised.
Mail the PPT to the
following e- mail ids:
Class VIII A&Bpratibha.nagpal@dav
dwarka.in
Class VIII C&Eanisha.pareek@davd
warka.in
Class VIII Dsushovita.pandit@dav
dwarka.in

Mathematics Find the usage of different petroleum products in India

in year 2014-15 and represent the information using PiChart and also draw the bar graph of consumption of
petroleum products in year 2014. For more information
you may follow the given link.

Science

Social
Science

Link : http://marketrealist.com/2014/12/analyzingindias-oil-consumption/
1. Describe the journey of coal or petroleum. (Hint : Use pictorial
Start from the formation and explain till their uses.
illustrations to make
the project
1. Mark the location of non-conventional and
1. Minimum 5 places
conventional resources of energy on the political maps should be marked on
of India.
map from both the
categories.
2. Write a paragraph in 150 words differentiating
between actual and potential resources of energy.
3. Explain why are non-conventional resources of
energy considered as the hope of future
4. Non - conventional source of energy as a type of
future.

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2. Explain in 150
words and write A4
size sheets.
3. Explanation should
be 150 words
minimum.
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Hindi

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= (NUCLEAR ENERGY)
= (WIND ENERGY)
= (SOLAR ENERGY)
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Sanskrit

(Sources of Energy) -
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Paper (Paste);

Computer
Science

Design a webpage using HTML on renewable and nonrenewable sources of energy .

Submit the soft copy

of the HTML code of
the web page at
bhatiareetika1@gmail
.com .

Guidelines:

Each group will consist of 7 students. The leader of each group will take the
responsibility of planning, coordination and execution of the project.
Each member of a group has to perform the assigned tasks of one subject
of the project.
Internet, books, magazines and newspapers can be referred to, for
information. Their names / addresses of books, journals, newspapers,
websites etc., should be clearly mentioned.

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After compilation, the projects of all subjects should be punched in a folder

or a file consisting/containing A-4 sheets.
The first sheet of the folder should be the content page with the name,
class /sec and roll nos. of the students of the group.
The cover page should be creative.

The project will be assessed for SA1

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