As the students have their summer vacations ahead, they must be given some holidays homework.
It is a generalized statement that Holidays Homework should be fun-filled though there is a large number of students who just need to revise the syllabus already covered so that their base is strong and they can keep pace with the syllabus after the vacations are over.
Home work should be such, that add to their knowledge even if not much syllabus has been covered in class.
The temperature is also increasing day by day, making the outdoor activities difficult and unsafe, the work should be done without taking such risks.
I would also suggest only ‘economical’ homework, where students don’t have to spend a lot.
Though the work can be given asking students to prepare PowerPoint presentations, the students should preferably be asked to prepare a file with hand written material or prepare a scrap file with captions or a mix of both.
‘Online time’ must be kept minimum. A long spell of online classes has already done a lot to keep the students away from paper-pen resulting in deterioration of their writing skills.
This work can be given in groups or to individual students, with or without limited choice, in such a way that maximum number of activities are done by the class, which can be shown and discussed on opening of school after vacations, to add to their knowledge.
Prepare Any One project out of the list given below, after reading the following hints and guidelines:
What are the different type of problems faced by consumers in India? Give at least ten examples in detail.
Give at least ten examples of companies giving the protection to consumers by giving their toll free no. and address etc. on the packets of their products, website etc.
- Common cases of Consumer Exploitation:
Collect the news regarding at least ten consumer related cases decided by various consumer forums/ courts at different levels, or write in detail from your personal experience. Examples can be seen here, at the end of this article, by clicking on the crosses in the Jago Grahak Jago picture.
- Famous cases of Consumer goods withdrawn from market:
Like, a popular noodles case, pesticides in soft drink, worms in chocolates, objectionable material in advertisements etc. when the manufacturing companies had to withdraw the goods from the market or advertisements removed from the media.
- Impact of Advertising on different sections of society:
Like social and moral values, generation of employment. (Positive and Negative effects)
- Women Empowerment:
Give in detail different steps taken by the State/Central Government in giving more opportunities in different fields thus empowering women.
- Business Principles, Values and Ethics:
Check the website of any Indian company, for its Values, Ethics and business principles and explain in your own words.
- Effect of Covid-19 on Business:
Show the effect of Covid-19 on different elements of Business Environment like demand, supply, prices, etc. of different goods and services, income, production etc. Add a lot of pictures.
Prepare a scrap file showing the variety of packages and packing material used for different products.
- Labelling:
Compile the information displayed on the packages of different consumer products e.g. biscuit, chocolate, cough syrup etc.
- Anti-Plastic Campaign:
Mention the harms of plastic and steps to curb this problem at national and international level. Add pictures of eco-friendly and innovative products used these days.
- Safety in Online Shopping:
Explain various precautions to be taken in online transactions, clearly mentioning the ways the online frauds are committed to cheat the customers.
- Financial Literacy:
Visit RBI's official website and compile a collection of information like, different coins and currency notes in circulation, special edition coins and currency notes, identification of fake currency notes, bank accounts and banking transactions etc.
- Business Ideas:
With a particular financial limit e.g. ₹10,000, ₹50,000 etc. how would you start a small venture to earn money? Compile a list of at least ten ideas, with brief description of each such idea.
Guidelines
- The work should be your own, and in no way copy of any existing material.
- The content should be based on real life situations and search.
- It needs to be neatly hand written by the student only, in a file.
- Ideas can be taken from internet. Mention the sources of information.
- There should be at least 20 pages of content, where relevant pictures must be pasted.
- Write your complete particulars on your file and keep a pdf file of your hard copy file.
- The files with creativity in content and presentation will be considered above all.
Happy Holidays
Stay home Stay safe.
Note: All the above mentioned activities can be done without reading any course book.
More such Activities with Art Integration can be done ,based on different topics from the books also.
For students who need revision, ask to revise and test their understanding before going through complicated exercises from the books.