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प्रश्न
Look at Sunita’s photographs and the dates written on each of them. Write what all is happening and when?
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उत्तर
| Date | Event |
| 09-12-2006 | The spacecraft is taking off |
| 11-12-2006 | Astronauts are floating inside the spacecraft |
| 11-12-2006 | Astronauts are taking food |
| 13-12-2006 | Sunita is working |
| 16-12-2006 | Sunita is roaming outside the spacecraft |
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संबंधित 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?
Take a 5 rupee coin and a small piece of paper. The paper should be about one-fourth the size of the coin.
- Hold the coin in one hand and the paper in the other. Drop them at the same time. What happened?
- Now place the tiny paper on the coin and drop them. What happened this time? Surprised!
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?

- Can you see India?
- Can you recognize any other place?
- Where is the sea?
- Do you find anything similar between the globe and this picture of the earth? In what ways are they different?
- Do you think Sunita could make out Pakistan, Nepal, and Burma separately when she saw the earth from space?

- 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?
Do you think the moon is flat like the coin or round like a ball?
At night look at the sky carefully for 5 minutes.
- What could you see?
- Did you see anything moving in the sky? What do you think it could be? A star or a shooting star or a satellite (satellites are used for the TV, telephones, and for weather reports). Find out more about this.
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 don’t you try to do the same with a coin? How many centimeters away from the eye did you keep the coin to hide the moon?
If you saw the moon rising at 7 pm today, would you see it at the same time tomorrow?
