Science project Reusable materials around home- Balloon / Manual water dispenser

This is a science project recently done by my elder son by using Reusable materials around home.

We saw many videos online and tried to make out rubber band race car, water fountain, bottle racing car,but none was working as there is some key points not shared in the videos we saw. So am still working on it to get a correct working procedures once I get a clarity will share those on my blog.

For this experiment we used plastic
bottles,straws,rubber band, glue, scissors, small beads,old two way sketch pen caps, balloon, medicine bottle caps washer.           ( white colour circle foam type sheet on lids). Empty used tissue box to make outer cover for dispenser.

First take a bottle and make a hole on its side and insert the straw in white Cork and later put it inside the cut hole on its sides.
Now apply glue around the holes and let it dry.

Later make a hole on bottle lid and insert another straw with a white Cork. So that it looks neat. Now our model is ready.

We need to make a balloon blower. For that we need,
                                    Pic 1

Pic 2

                                     Pic 3

Take things as in pic 1,next attach balloon to one end of sketch cap rod using rubber band, now insert a straw inside a small bead and insert it through other end of sketch rod  glue around the bead part so no air leaves. Now we can blow balloon using straw. 

 We need to place our bottle model inside tissue box and our side straw part should come out if tissue box top which is now used as sides in our model as shown in picture.

Our model looks like above. 

Using a funnel fill Bott let below holes level, now blow balloon blower n join the blower straw by holding tight to the bottle straw when we take our finger air releases and pushes the water in the bottle through the hole, we need a resuable container to be placed near the water dispenser. 

This is how he completed his project with Reusable materials around home with a neat chart presentation of his model.

Maths model presentation - competition

This is our own idea for the competition.
My younger son received 3rd prize for his presentation. This competition was conducted for grade 3,4, and 5. My son did last year when he was in grade 3.

We thought of many ideas as it should be a working model. It was my DH who suggested to make models using sri chakra as it is related to maths more.

Now how to make the model as a working model. I got an idea of making sri chakra as a jigsaw puzzle pieces. As my younger one crazy about joining puzzle pieces. We can think and plan many but kids must be ready to do. Especially my younger one will not do things if he don't like.

I bought a foam sheet and took a printouts of sri chakra in a 10 rupees A4 print sheet which has laminated top part. Normal A4 paper print we can't cut exact as we need to cut sharp for puzzle pieces. As we must not spoil srichakra outlooks.

Below are some cut pieces of our model.

Now,model ready so  next is script to present this project. Instead of just saying full script nonstop to make it real explain- ing and interesting for listening we followed below things along with our script.


** We used ice cream sticks to make
      Triangles.
** Took printout of other two forms and
     Pasted on card board.
** Things need to be arranged neatly so
     It is easy to handle by kids while
     explaining.
** Empty card board for placing puzzle
     Pieces, two other forms below empty
     Cardboard,3 ice cream sticks,9 puzzle
     Pieces.
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Topic is Nine Triangles

Namasthey,i am mithran of grade3A, today I am going to talk about nine triangles.

What is a triangle?

(Now he must join 3 icecream sticks to make triangle and tell answer)

A triangle is a closed 2 dimensional shape formed by joining 3 line segments. It has 3 lines and 3 vertices.

Now let us join 9 puzzle pieces and see what we get.

(Now he must arrange all puzzle pieces,
to save time and confusion during presentation it is better to number it from 1 to 9 in pencil, during practice my son used to arrange pieces upside down from 1 to 9 so he can save time while arranging and focus on explaining part).

We get Sri chakra or Navayoni chakra which is used for worship and meditation as per Hindu shastra.

Nava means nine. You can see nine triangles in the middle.Five downward triangles representing female God Shakthi and four upward triangles representing male God Shiva.

5 interlocking triangles lead to creation of 43 small triangles with a center point Bindu.

You can see two circles with eight and 16 flower petals representing a lotus.It is framed by broken squares, representing a temple with four doors open.

Since Sri chakra is based on triangles it has three forms.

(Now he must put the top plane form other side and show below form, similarly next one)

First form is plane form
Second form is pyramid form called meru.
Third form is spherical form called as kurma.

You can see pyramid form in the kandasram temple located in camp road.

Thank you.
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 Note: Last part can be changed as per the local place near our locality.

All script inside brackets ( ) are action parts along the oral script.

Hope this post will be helpful to all. Share your feedbacks about this.

Chart models by younger son

This a chart model for science,- my plate

This a model he did for his dream school

Tamil chart preparation by a story

This chart model done by my younger son mithran for outside school competition.

The entire picture illustrations drawn by him.

I really wondered for his great presentation.

This is a story about how srinivasa nayaka becomes great "Purandaradasa"

Chart preparation models done by elder son

Energy saving chart for science

Sustainability week Drawing 

               
                      Values of my culture

Show and tell for kids

This is a simple show and tell topic as Aladdin done by elder son.

Good Morning Friends,
My name is Sukarman I am from class 4b.

I am going to act like Aladdin.

Hi friends, I am Aladdin,this is my magic lamp....I love magic lamp because it grants all my wishes....

Hmmm....(thinking gesture), what can I wish for ......
1) A cool breeze to touch my cheeks... Noooo

2) A bag full of gold and diamonds nooooo...

3) yeah(idea got it gesture) A good health through the year and also to be strong and happy.

You get things, you wish for if you have lamp like this. Thank you.

The above is a simple show n tell we prepared in a day time this is non competitive one, for presenting in class. My son took a Aladdin lamp (we made  our own model of lamp) for showing.

This is the model we made, I have attached a metal bangle by bending it to make the above shape, and attached to the lamp using a metal string.

Voice modulation in above script plus some extra add on creative lines would be good. Just shared what we did.

Puppet show - Motu becomes cow

Today is March 8th 2018

Very happy women's day and most precious moment in my life.

My second son has received first prize for presenting his puppet show in his school held on this January.

I would like to share the making of our puppet show concepts.

Even if my son has not received any prize I would have definitely, shared this concept in my blog. But everyone will feel excited when  listening to victory story.

First when concept was announced we had no idea of what to make. As Mithran is more interested in his craft works thought of bringing out his creativity.

So I asked my Dh to suggest any ideas for that. He initiated our first thought by saying whatever concept say about protecting cows ,using banana leaves.

I thought about Krishna n cow concept first n scripted but could not make simple ones.

The very next day we happened to visit Dakshina chitra with kids, to our surprise there was a puppet show organised there, though it happens there regularly we Are not aware of it. The way that puppeteer presented Krishna story was very creative. All kids really enjoyed simple jokes n voice modulation we ourself became excited to watch show. 

From there I got the main ideology that, though a puppet show must have a concept or message first thing is it should be enjoyed by all.

Later in the coming  days both of my sons were pretend playing as motu n patlu, so suddenly I thought why not make puppet show using motu n patlu, so I told my son to draw motu if he looks like a cow. In no minutes he drew n showed me. 

Immediately patlu, Dr jatka, drawing he prepared small drawings we pasted on cardboard n ice cream sticks.

Some how should bring my dh ideas too.

So we got idea as motu is changing as cow. Patlu tries to help him by getting idea from doctor jatka, he advises patlu to give him water n banana leaf to get back motu.

This idea I got first.

When I asked my son to draw cow drinking water n eating banana leaves he drew cow drinking water and skating banana leaves. 

By seeing that picture got idea as cow is skating leaves Instead of eating, as motu likes Samosa, I asked him to draw samosas in banana leaf, then motu eats samosas in banana leaf then finally motu is back.

Msg is please throw plastic separately protect cows.

This is how he presented his show

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School fancy dress competition dialogues

Here I have posted various scripts I prepared for my kids for various programs.I have prepared this for my kids convenient.

Sukarman as "Vamana" & Mithran as "Kevat"

#Vivekananda

Namasthey
My humble pranams to all of you.
I am sukarman portraying myself as swami vivekananda.
He was a great leader , his speech at Chicago inspired many people.
His birthday is celebrated as national youth day.
Remember his quotes a man who has no faith in himself can never have faith in god.
Thank you.
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# vamanan - avatar of vishnu(for festival theme program)

I am vamana
The 5th avatar of Vishnu.
Never underestimate anything for its appearance.
Home coming day of mahabali is celebrated as onam every year.
Thank you.
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Kevat - boatman

Hi I am mithran of ukg, I am depicting myself as kevat boatman.
God ferries people across ocean of samsara I ferry people from one place to another.
Row row row your boat gently down the stream, merrily merrily merrily life is but a dream.hare rama hare hare rama rama rama hare hare Krishna hare Krishna krisha Krishna hare.
Thank you.
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#Traffic signal
Hi I am traffic signal
You can see me on all road junctions.
Red means stop,yellow means ready, green means go.
Avoid using phones on roads,use zebra crossing to cross roads.
Don't forget to give your way for ambulance and fire engine.
Thank you.
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# Krishna.
Hi I am Kutty Kanna.
This is my flute.
I love butter (this has to be done by holding small butter pot n licking butter).
Thank you.

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# Jawaharlal Nehru (for children's day)
Jawaharlal Nehru was born on 14 November 1889.
His father name is motilal Nehru and his mother name is swarup rani.
He loved children.
So his birthday is celebrated as children's day. We call him chacha Nehru thank you.
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My teacher - for teachers day.

Hi I am mithran of Ukg. I am going to talk about my teacher. My teacher name is Hema mam.
H for happily, E for encourage, M for me and my friends A for always.
She happily encourage me and my friends always.
So I love my teacher.
Thank you.
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All above scripts are simple ones
Mostly I opt for no heavy costume look.as both of my kids don't wear any extra out fits.
I found tough to make my son wear extra accessories for vamana.

I prepared script for doctor n rama too. But forgot those scripts....as I may forget these scripts also I am wantedly writing this on my blog.

# few points to remember before teaching kids.
*always teach kids simple lines without hurry even when they play they listen.
* make sure u write up full script in advance from namasthey to thank you. Before you start to teach them the script.
* any add on points will confuse kids
* finally we must not focus on winning part.....as each child is unique...only we should enourage our kids for their efforts.

I still remember my elder sons look after completing krishna script. He changed script as he was helped by mam wen he had starting trouble.

Mithran as " Jawaharlal Nehru" & Sukarman as.  " Swami Vivekananda"