1.7 SUGGESTED PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES

NCERT class 6 science textbook for blind and visually impaired students.

1. You must have seen a garden lizard around your home. Next time when-ever you see it, observe carefully and find out what it takes for food. Is the food different from that of a house lizard?

2. Make a list (with pictures, when possible) of food items generally taken by people of different regions of India. Place these on a large outline map of India to display in your classroom.

3. Find out the names of plants that grow in water and which are eaten as food.

4. In Chapter 10, you will find out ways of measuring length of curved lines. In your mathematics classes you will learn to prepare bar graphs. After you learn these, try the following interesting project. Prepare some sprouts of moong as discussed in the chapter. Wash them in water every day and drain all the water. Let them grow for a week until the whole of the seeds grows into young plants. Measure the lengths of the sprouts everyday using a string. Take care that they do not break. Prepare a bar graph of the number of sprouts having lengths in different ranges.