Combo pack of 4 Project Kits to learn concepts in Grade 7
1. Wind, Storms & Cyclones
2. Motion & Time
3. Comparing quantities
4. Transportation in animals and plants
Description of the projects below:
5. Wind, Storms & Cyclones
Learning Objectives:
• Make a wind vane, anemometer & a wind sock and understand:
a. How to calculate the speed of the wind
b. How to know the direction of the wind
• Make a spray gun to understand Bernoulli's principle - high speed winds cause low pressure
• Understand the categorization of wind storms - Beaufort's scale
Kit contains:
• Materials required to do the activity.
• Colour workbook that includes
a. Detailed instructions to build models
b. Exercises on observations
c. Information about real life applications
d. Concept map for revision
e. Questions that trigger application oriented learning.
6. Motion & Time
Learning Objectives:
• Make a simple pendulum set with provision for adjusting the length of the pendulum to understand:
a. Time period of a simple pendulum and how to calculate it
b. Dependence of time period on various factors (mass of the bob, length of the pendulum etc.)
• Make an air propelling Newton's car to calculate speed of a moving object.
• Generate data to plot the distance-time graph by playing a game.
Kit contains:
• Materials required to do the activity.
• Colour workbook that includes
a. Detailed instructions to build models
b. Exercises on observations
c. Information about real life applications
d. Concept map for revision
e. Questions that trigger application oriented learning.
7. Comparing quantities
Learning Objectives:
• Make conversion tools (Using elastic bands, sliders and rulers) to learn and understand:
a. Ratios, fractions, decimals and percentages
b. How to convert fractions to percentages and vice versa.
c. How to convert decimals to percentages and vice versa.
d. Compare fractions by converting them to either decimals or percentages.
• Play the fraction game and understand use of comparing different quantities.
Kit contains:
• Materials required to do the activity.
• Colour workbook that includes
a. Detailed instructions to build models
b. Exercises on observations
c. Information about real life applications
d. Concept map for revision
e. Questions that trigger application oriented learning.
8. Transportation in animals and plants
Learning Objectives:
• Make a mini heart model (one chamber) to understand working of one way valves in human heart
• Play the Circulatory System game to know:
a. Different components of the circulatory system
b. Components of blood: RBC’s, WBC’s and Platelets
c. Interesting facts - Life of RBC, WBC, food to increase RBC, WBC and platelet count etc..
d. Normal range for each of RBC, WBC and platelet and the consequences if otherwise.
• Perform an activity to understand the process of transportation in Plants i.e. Transpiration
Kit contains:
• Materials required to do the activity.
• Colour workbook that includes
a. Detailed instructions to build models
b. Exercises on observations
c. Information about real life applications
d. Concept map for revision
e. Questions that trigger application oriented learning.
