JINDAL VIDYA MANDIR, VIDYANAGAR

(2025-2026)Summer Engagement
Class/Sec: VIII
Subject: Science
Name of the Student:______________ Date:

Sound
[Link] do you Vary your Voice
Materials Required: Few balloons and a pair of scissors.

Procedure : Cut a ring of about 2cm wide from the balloon as shown
in the figure below.

 Stretch the ring by holding it from two sides across its diameter and
blow through it.

 You would hear a whistle.

 Try to produce different whistle sounds by Further stretching or

relaxing the strip.

Answer the following

1. How does the sound change on stretching and
relaxing the rubber ring?

2. Why does the sound change on stretching the ring?

3. Explain the science behind the Activity

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Scattering of Light
2. Colour of Sun at Sunrise and Sunset
Materials Required
Rectangular container of clear glass or transparent plastic (approximately
30cm ×20cm × 15cm), a large torch (three large cells) or LED torch, water,
milk (50ml)
and a plane mirror (6cm × 10cm) with a suitable stand.

Procedure:
 Fill the container with water.
 Add a few drops of milk at a time till water appears just milky.
 With the help of the plane mirror, direct a beam of sunlight on a face
of the container so that the light passes through its length

 Alternatively, use a torch instead of sunlight as shown.

Explain the science behind this activity

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Pressure
[Link] Dancing Mug
Materials Required:A bucket and a mug.
Procedure :
 For this activity you will need a running tap of water.
 Keep the bucket under the running tap and
 fill it.
 Place the mug in water in the bucket.
 Note the manner in which the mug floats on water. Is it floating in
vertical position or is it tilted?
 Place the mug on water in different ways and note the manner in
which it finally rests.
 Open the tap a little so that a thin stream of water flows out of it. Let
the water fall into the mug floating in water. If required, adjust the
mouth of mug for the tap water to fall inside it (Fig. 2 and Fig. 3).
 Observe what happens to the tilting of the mug as it gets filled with
water. Make a note of the surface of water inside the mug. Is it also
tilted like the mug or is it horizontal? Also try to note the difference
sink more and more as it gets filled with water?

Explain the science behind this activity.

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Know the Elements of Periodic table
[Link] my Place
Materials Required: Chart paper, ruler, sketch pens (to prepare the outline
of the Periodic Table and its Groups and Periods), a pair of scissors. Knowing
the position of the elements in the Periodic Table helps in recognising their
chemical properties.
Procedure:
 prepare the outlines of the Periodic Table.
 prepare 18 chart paper strips with symbols of 18 Groups of Modern
Periodic Table written on them vertically.
 Outlines of Periodic Table to be made.
 All the 18 Vertical ‘Group’ strips will be placed upside down
nearby in random order.
 Place all the strips on the outline correctly
Then make small cut outs of first 20 elements and place them on the
Periodic Table in the proper sequence.

Write the names of those elements that you are most familier along
with their chemical formulae

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Complementary colours
[Link] bird (Puzzling Colours)
Materials Required: Four white drawing sheets (30cm x 30cm), marble
paper (red, green and blue), sketch pen (black), a pair of
scissors, glue and sticking tape.

Procedure:

 Cut the shape of a bird, from each of the three coloured marble
papers.
 Paste each shape on a white drawing sheet with the help of glue.
 Draw a small black eye for each bird with the black sketch pen.
 Paste the drawing sheets with different coloured birds on a wall at your
eye level.
 Paste the white drawing sheet on the wall near the drawing sheets
with birds as shown in the figure.
 You can draw a bird cage or a tree or a window on this sheet.
 Stare at the eye of the red bird for about 30 seconds.
 Then quickly shift your eyes to the white sheet (bird cage or tree).
What do you observe? You may see a Cyan (bluish green) bird on the
white sheet.
 Now repeat the above process staring at the green bird. This time you
may see a magenta (reddish-blue) bird on the white sheet.
 Finally, stare at the blue bird. What do you
 Observe this time? You may see yellow bird on the white sheet.

Explain the science behind this activity.

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Electric Circuit

[Link] Power House

Materials required:Thin strips of copper (6cm each)
three each, two LED s ( light emitting diode), a divider
from the geometry box, three beakers (100ml) (or glass
tumblers of similar size, or containers cut from ½ litre
water bottles), 1m long connecting wire, water, a lemon
vinegar , sand paper.

Procedure: Clean the surfaces of all the copper wire strips with sand
paper. Pierce a small hole at one end of each strip with the sharp point
of the divider.
 Cut 4 pieces of the connecting wire each 10cm long. Remove 1cm
insulating coating from both the ends of each piece of the wire.
 Take three beakers and fill with water up to half of their capacity.
 Place strips of copper in each beaker as shown . These strips should
not touch each other in water.
 Now connect the strip of copper from 1st beaker to the strip of copper
from 2nd beaker with a piece of connecting wire. Then connect the
copper strip from 2nd beaker to the strip of copper from 3rd beaker
with a piece of connecting wire. This arrangement gives us three cells
connected in series.
 Identify the polarities of LED. Out of the two legs of LED the longer
one is the positive terminal. Connect this positive terminal of the LED
to the copper strip in the 3rd beaker with a connecting wire.
 Now add a few drops of lemon juice or vinegar in each beaker and
observe the LED. Does LED glow brighter this time? Can you see it
easily?
Explain the Science Behind this activity.

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Disperssion Of Light

[Link] your own Rainbow

Materials Required: Water sprayer

Procedure: Take a spray bottle and fill it with water. When the Sun is fairly
low and behind you (such as early morning or late in the afternoon), use the
sprayer to produce a fine spray. Keep spraying for some time to produce a
dense fog
of water droplets.

Observe carefully. What do you see? A Rainbow! You

can even see the component colours of a rainbow. The direction of sunlight
is important at the time it strikes the spray. It determines whether or not
you will see a rainbow.

Explain the science behind the Activity

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Both eyes judge the depth of an object

[Link] Finger
 Stand about 2–3 metres in front of a white screen or a wall. Stretch
your both hands in front of your eyes with the forefingers of two hands
touching each other horizontally as shown.
 Now look beyond the fingers at the screen or the wall.
 While keeping your eyes fixed at the wall, move apart the forefingers
gradually.
 You will able to see a ghost finger hanging in the air.
 If you focus your eyes on the ghost finger, it disappears, but appears
again when you look far.
 If you continue to pull the two fingers apart you will find that the size
of the
ghost finger shortening, becoming circular and finally disappearing
when the separation between the two fingers is about 3–4cm.

Explain the Science behind this activity.

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Reflection of light

[Link] A PERISCOPE

You will need: Cardboard pencil box, or any other similar box, two rectangular
mirrors, cello tape, paper cutter, scissors.

What to do:

Mark 2.5cm from each end of the box. Cut three sides only (one big and two
small) at these ends. Bend the cuts at right angles as shown.
Attach the mirrors using cellotape where the box has been bent.

This should be done in such a manner that the mirror surfaces are facing the
box at right angles. *

Ensure that both the bent parts of the pencil box are at right angles. You may
attach a piece of cellotape for this.
Now hold the periscope vertical and peep through the lower rectangular
window. Are you able to see objects located at a higher level? How is that
possible?

A periscope like the one you have made uses two mirrors. Look at the
diagram of a periscope shown here. The mirrors are placed so that one

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mirror reflects the light from the object onto a second mirror. The second
mirror then reflects the light beam to your eyes.

A periscope is commonly used in submarines. The captain of the submarine

uses it to see what happens above water and to detect enemies.
So now what are you waiting for? Get ready to peak around corners, over
the fence and over tabletops and surprise your friends. HAVE FUN!

Explain the Science behind this activity

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 Air pressure

[Link] POPS INTO A BOTTLE

You will need:
A boiled egg, empty milk bottle (or any glass bottle onto the mouth of
which can be fitted a boiled egg), some paper strips and matchbox.

What to do:

Remove the shell from a hardboiled egg.

Use a glass bottle with a mouth
large enough through which an egg
can be squeezed through without
squashing [Link] the boiled egg
with its small end down on the
mouth of an empty bottle. Does
anything happen to the egg? Does
it move?

 Take the boiled egg off the bottle?

 Burn the strips of paper and
drop these burning papers
quickly into the bottle.
 Quickly place the boiled egg
once again on the mouth of
the bottle.
 What do you find now? Does
the egg remain at the mouth
of the bottle or is it sucked in?

Explain the Science behind the activity

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Crop Production

11. Effect of manure and fertilizers on growth of

seedings
Materials Required : 3 empty glass vessels, germinated moong or gram
seeds, small amount of urea, little cow dung manure.

Procedure:

1. Take moong or gram seeds and germinate them by soaking in

water overnight
2. Take three empty glasses or similar vessels marked as A, B and C.
3. Add little amount of soil mixed with a little cow dung manure in
glass A
4. Add same amount of soil mixed with a little urea in glass B
5. Take the same amount of soil in glass C without adding anything
6. Keep them in a safe place and water it them daily.
7. Note down the observation after 7-10 days

[Link] glass shows the highest growth?

2. What were the original contents of the glass showing highest

growth?

3. Can you name elements and compounds which may have caused
this growth?

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Microorganisms
12. Observe the growth of microorganisms
Materials Required:4 plastic bottles with caps, sugar, warm water, a small
amount of yeast, balloons.
Procedure:
1. Take each bottle and label them as A,B,C and D
2. Pour warm water in each of the plastic bottles
3. Add small amounts of yeast in all four of them
4. Add one, two, three and four tablespoons of sugar in each one of
them
5. Shake the bottle gently
6. Replace the cap of the bottle and cover it with a balloon.
7. Note your observations

[Link] the size of balloon same or different? Can you identify the
original contents of the bottle with the biggest balloon?

[Link] is causing the balloon to inflate?

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Best out of waste

13. Reuse plastic to make useful objects

Materials Required: Waste plastic bottles, small plants, soil and cow dung
manure, scissors to cut the plastic

1. Procedure: Take a plastic bottle and cut it from the side ways
2. Put some soil mixed with cow dung manure
3. Place the plant inside the bottle with soil mixed with cow dung
manure
4. You can make multiple bottles to make a garden wall

[Link] are the most common source of waste plastic?

[Link] you think of other useful things you could make using existing
plastic?

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14. Chemical effect of electricity
1. Take the piece of copper and iron nail, and attach one conducting
wire to each such that one end is open

Fig 1
2. Take a clean beaker and put 100 g of copper sulphate
3. Pour 4 cups of hot water into the solution
4. Dip the piece of copper and iron nail into the solution.
5. Now connect the open ends of the wire connected to the piece of
copper and iron nail with a torch battery.
6. Note down your observations of what happened to the iron nail.

[Link] the colour of the iron nail changed? What is the color now?

[Link] has the colour changed?

[Link] all natural laws of physics can be observed through this

experiment?

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[Link] the harmful effects of deforestation
leading to soil erosion
Materials Required :3 plastic bottle, soil, grass, dry leaves, water, a cup

Procedure:

1. Take a pet bottle and cut it from one side and mark them as A,B
and C
2. Put soil with some grass in bottle A, soil covered with dry
leaves in bottle B and just soil in bottle C
3. Pour water from the top and collect the spill over water in a cup
4. Note down the observation on the water collected

[Link] difference do you notice in the water collected?

[Link] does water collected from bottle C have high amount of soil in
it?

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Pressure

16. Discover the direction of pressure applied by

liquid when put in a container to conclude that
liquids exert pressure on the walls of the container
1. Take an empty plastic bottle.
2. Drill four holes at the same height from the bottom of the bottle.
3. Drill 3 holes at different heights from the previous one.
4. Cover the holes with tape.
5. Fill the water in bottle.
6. Remove the tape from the holes which are at different height.
7. Now, remove the tape from the holes which are at the same height.

[Link] the stream of the water coming out from the holes at different
height fall at the same distance from the bottle?

2. Do the stream of the water coming out from the holes at the
same height fall at the same distance from the bottle?

[Link] there any change in the speed of different stream?

[Link] is water tank built at a high height in our houses?

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Friction

[Link] toy
Materials required: Matchstick box, thread, used refill, 2 oil pins

Procedure:

1. Take an empty matchstick box and take out its tray.

2. Cut a used refill of a ball pen of the same width as the tray as shown
in the picture below.
3. Fix the refill with two pins on the top of the tray.
4. Make two holes on opposite sides of the tray. Make sure that the
holes are large enough to allow a thread to pass through them
easily.
5. Take a thread about a metre long and pass it through the holes as
shown. Fix beads at the two ends of the thread so that it does not
come out.
6. Insert the tray in the outer cover of the matchbox.

Suspend the match box by the thread. Leave the thread loose and write your
observation. Tighten the thread now and observe

[Link] there any difference between the two observations?

[Link] you relate it to friction?

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Conductivity of liquids

[Link] between good and poor conductors of electricity in

order to explain that almost all materials can conduct electricity
under certain conditions.

Materials Required: Distilled water, tap water, 3 volt battery, L.E.D.

flexible wire, rubber base ( to insert L.E.D), 2 plates

1. With the help of battery, wire and L.E.D make a circuit as shown in
picture.
2. Pour distilled water in one plate and tap water in another plate.
3. Test the circuit by connecting both wires in air.
4. Complete the circuit by dipping both the ends in the distilled water.
5. Dip the ends of both wires in tap water to complete the circuit.

Check the conductivity of other liquids like milk, vegetable oil, lemon juice
and matter like iron nail, plastic, wood etc.

[Link] which case, did the L.E.D glow?

[Link] did L.E.D not glow in another case?

[Link] helps to conduct electricity?

[Link] can we increase the conductivity of water?

[Link] do you get a shock when you touch a live wire?

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Electroscope

19. Creating a charge detector

Materials Required:A plastic cup, 2 strips of aluminium foil ( 3cm *1cm), a
piece of copper wire,

Procedure:

1. Take an empty transparent plastic glass and keep it upside down.

2. Pierce a hole at the bottom of the glass so that copper wire can be
inserted as shown in picture.
3. Twist one end of wire in the shape of coil and bend another end
to hang aluminium foil.
4. Cut 2 strips of aluminium foil about 3cm x 1cm and hang them as
shown in picture.
5. Bring a charged body near it.

[Link] there any effect on the foil strips?

[Link] they repel each other or attract each other?

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Characteristics of Plane mirror

[Link] the incident and reflected angle after striking the mirror
with a ray of light to illustrate the law of reflection in real life

Materials Required: Mirror, comb, torch ( or laser light), black paper, white
sheet, pencil, glue.

Procedure:

1. Fix a white sheet paper on a table.

2. Take comb and close all its opening except one in the middle by
using black paper.
3. Hold the comb perpendicular to the sheet of paper and throw the
light through the opening of the comb.
4. With slight adjustment of the torch, you will see a ray of light along
the paper on the other side of the comb.
5. Place a strip of mirror in the path of the light ray.
6. Trace the path with pencil.

[Link] striking the mirror, how does light travel?

[Link] a normal to the surface of the mirror, and measure the

angles formed between normal and incident ray/ reflected ray.

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