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प्रश्न
Can you think why Sunita’s hair was standing?
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उत्तर
When we are on the earth, our hairs remain in a downward position because of the gravitational force of the earth. Once some are in space, the hairs stand as there is zero gravity in space.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Look at Sunita’s photographs and the dates written on each of them. Write what all is happening and when?
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?
Can you now say why Sunita’s hair kept standing?
To play this you will need a small stone, a bigger stone (lemon-sized), a thick roll of paper (which can be made with layers of paper), a mouse, and an elephant made of paper.
- Take a string about 2 feet long.
- At one end of the string tie the small stone. Stick or tie the mouse to the stone. - Put the string into the roll of paper.
- At the other end of the string tie the bigger stone and stick the elephant.
- Hold the roll of paper and move your hand to rotate the small stone.
- Who is pulling whom? You will be surprised! The mouse lifts the elephant! How did this magic happen?
Do you think the moon is flat like the coin or round like a ball?
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.
Why do children always slide down the slide and not slide up? If this slide were there in Sunita’s spacecraft, would children slide like this? Why?
Why do we see stars mostly at night?
If you saw the moon rising at 7 pm today, would you see it at the same time tomorrow?
On 31 October the time of setting of the moon is given as 12:03. Have you ever seen the moon at 12 in the afternoon? Why don’t we easily see the moon or stars during the day?
