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प्रश्न
Close your eyes. Imagine that your class is a spaceship. Zooo...m – in 10 minutes you have entered space. Your spaceship is now going around the earth. Now say:
- Are you able to sit in one place?
- What about your hair?
- Oh, look … where are your bags and books going?
- what is your teacher doing? Where is her chalk?
- How did you eat your food during the break? How did you drink water? What happened to the ball that you threw up?
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उत्तर
- No, we are unable to sit in one place. Everyone is floating in the air.
- My hair is standing up.
- My bags and books are also floating in the air.
- My teacher is also floating in the air and she is trying to catch the floating chalk.
- We had to grab the puri, flying in the air. The water floated in the form of blobs and we had to suck them. The ball I threw up started floating in the air.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What do you think the earth looks like? Make a drawing of the earth in your notebook. On your drawing show where you are. Take a look at your friends’ drawings too.
Can you think why Sunita’s hair was standing?
Think why water flows downwards on any slope. On mountains, water flows downwards, not upwards.
- Can you find India?
- Where all do you find the sea?
- Which countries can you see?
- Can you see some of the countries with which India plays cricket matches? For example England, Australia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and South Africa.
- What else can you see on the globe?
Look at the moon tonight and draw what it looks like. Look and draw again after one week, and then after 15 days.
| Today’s Date | Date after a week | Date after 15 days |
When is the next full moon? At what time will the moon rise on this day? What does the moon look like on this day? Draw it.
What are the festivals related to the moon?
Given below are the times at which the moon rises and sets in Delhi (on the given days).
| Date |
Time of moonrise (hours: minutes) |
Time of moon (hours: minutes)set |
| 28-10-2007 | 19:16 | 08:50 |
| 29-10-2007 | 20:17 | 10:03 |
| 30-10-2007 | 21:22 | 11:08 |
| 31-10-2007 | 22:29 | 12:03 |
- On 28 October the moon came out at ___ minutes past ___ o’clock.
- On 29 October the moon came out at ___ minutes past ___ o’clock.
- On 29 October there was a difference of ___ hours and ___ minutes in the time of the moonrise (as compared to 28 October).
See how the earth is looking. Can you see the surface of the moon? Do you have some questions after looking at this picture? Write down those questions and discuss them in the class.
Looking at earth from the space, Sunita said, “Different countries cannot be seen as separate from here. These lines are on paper. They are made by us.” What do you understand by this?
