APEEJAY SCHOOL, SAKET

HOLIDAY HOMEWORK -2017

CLASS -VIII

Theme: Smart City for Kids

A smart city is an urban area which is highly advanced in terms of infrastructure,

housing facility, markets, communication and commuting facilities. With children

constituting 40 percent of the population in India, the city planners are bound to

focus on the needs of the younger generation. Union Urban Development Minister

M. Venkaiah Naidu said, “it was time city master-plans incorporated specific chapters

to meet the needs of children” that may include providing adequate open spaces and

play centres to nurture children’s creative faculties, and “inclusive and child-sensitive

urban development strategies.”

This summer break, we invite our eighth graders to brainstorm and share ideas on

creating a smart city with an enabling environment; a city that will help in their all-

round development.

Task 1

You are residing in a smart city. Design a brochure using an A3 size sheet

highlighting the essential facilities that are present in your area with special

reference to parks, daily needs shop, garbage disposal system, public transport

facilities, eating joints, health centre, shopping arcade, educational institutions. What

extra facilities would you like to provide for children in terms of open spaces ,

conveniences and safety. Don’t forget to use bright and colourful illustrations, write

headings/captions and brief explanation for each.

1. Compose an Acrostic poem with the words ‘ Smart City’ on a pastel sheet.

2. Summer should be a relaxed time when your love for reading can flower.

Retain and enhance your reading skills over the summer by reading at least

one classic novels - novels like Matilda by Roald Dahl, Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint and The Blue

Umbrella by Ruskin Bond.

Write a book/story report in the following format;

Name of the book______________

Name of the author_____________

Description of two main characters ________________

Summary of the story in your own words ________________

4.Follow the link to attempt few grammar exercises on tenses and conditional

sentences.

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/complex_tests/if_clauses1/index.php

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/zeitformen.htm

Copy at least one exercise for each tense ( simple present, simple past, simple

future. present continuous/progressive, past continuous, present perfect, past

perfect )and conditional sentences .

Please note that the English Holiday homework is to be done in the Language

notebook.

Task 2

Our very first advanced civilisation had many cities which are equivalent to

smart cities of today. Name those cities as well as the main features of these

cities. With the help of illustrations mention the features that can be adopted

from Harappa and Mohenjodaro and any new feature you would like to have

in the smart cities of 21st century India.

Note: You are advised to visit the Harappan culture section of National

Museum to do your holiday homework.

Which cities in the world are considered to be the most child friendly cities.

Research and make a list of top 5 child friendly cities of the world. What

makes these cities child friendly?

How will you make your city safe for children? Make a list of gadgets and

equipments that should be installed in your city to make it child safe.

Children deserve to be happy, healthy and safe. What facilities will you keep

in mind to ensure that all children in the smart city are physically, socially and

mentally healthy?

Task 3 (Urban Geometry)

A. Make a list of at least three 3D (three dimensional) geometrical figures that

are preferred by architects to construct earthquake resistant buildings. For

each listed figure, present your analysis around the following points:

1. Why does this figure provides strength to the structures of the building?

Explain using mathematical principle.

2. In which buildings have you seen these three dimensional geometrical figure

being used? Paste a picture of that building.

3. Which geometrical property makes this figure special to be chosen by modern

architects to build smart buildings?

4. Has this figure been used earlier in architecture of the building in ancient or

medieval times? If yes, list out the names of such building.

B. Solve unit 3 exercise (C) from Q no 87 to Q no 142 on square numbers,

square roots, cubes and cube roots from NCERT exemplar text book in their

assignment notebook.

Task A of Mathematics will be evaluated under subject enrichment for term I

Task 5

Design a website in Kompozer/Frontpage on any one of the following topics-

● Transportation in smart city

● Smart gadgets - smart life

● My dream City

The website should contain at least 6 pages with good formatting , aesthetics and

presentation.Email your website with your Name, class, section to school email-id:

skool.saket.del@apj.edu

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FRENCH

Décrivez la ville de vos rêves en francais. Ecrivez vos idées en 80-100 mots dans

votre cahier de classe. Amusez-vous bien pendant vos vacances d'été.

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