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Volume 2
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Know India & the World
Colouring activities
Word based fun
Group Activities
for the all-rounder in every student
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WELCOME Message to parents and teachers EXALT is an attempt to encourage the all-round development in school students. Every student has a special skill. There is an all-rounder in every student, but because of various reasons those skills don’t come to fruition. We are trying to right that wrong. We, a team of IIT & IIM Alumni and graduates from some of the best institutes in India, supported by people from different walks of life, bring to you a complete package. The magazine contributes immensely to the growth of the students by showcasing their latent skills. We base our work on the path breaking research of Dr. Howard Gardner. His “Theory of Multiple Intelligences” talks extensively about various intelligences in students and the importance of encouraging those skills. EXALT will help students in three main ways
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Our website, www.mysuperbrain.com, is India’s first website to encourage all-round excellence in school students. It is the best gift any student can get. There will be a tremendous impact on the long term growth of students. Students will be able to improve their knowledge in different areas like science, number skills, current affairs, health etc. There will be loads of creative activities that would get the creative juices in students flowing. We give a very high importance to showcasing of students’ abilities to the world. Every edition will have various activities and competitions listed. Students can submit their work and we will provide them a global audience on our website www.mysuperbrain.com. We assure you that this magazine will continuously bring new articles, activities and competitions that will broaden the horizon of every student who lays his/her hand on it. Please also visit www.mysuperbrain.com for educational articles, educational games, quizzes, competitions and also to connect with experts from various domains who would be able to guide you in numerous ways. There is no fee to register on the website. Our attempt is to bring out the best in every student and we do everything to deliver the best to all the students.
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Using the Magazine This magazine is for the all-round development of school kids. It provides various activities and exercises that would improve the learning capabilities in students and their interest in multiple activities. The magazine is ideal for students below grade 4 (around age 10). Activities in the magazine involve Mathematics, English, Geography, Logical thinking, Coloring, Quiz, Group work and Competitions. The activities in the magazine are based on a lot of research in the area of developmental psychology. The main aim is to improve skills of students in multiple areas and to bring out the best in students from a very early age.
Points We have given points for all the activities in the magazine. This is to give an incentive to kids to participate in all the activities. The activities can be done during family time or class room activity to have some fun and a lot of learning. Try to grab all the points by finishing all the activities. Summer vacation is about to start and you have a good time doing the activities instead of playing in the hot sun.
Aim High. Rise High.
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Number Hero Improve your mathematics, the fun way Do you love mathematics? Do you want to improve your skills in mathematics? Mathematics is extremely interesting if you spend some time in understanding it. India has been the home to some of the greatest mathematicians of all-time. If you love numbers, you can be one among them when you grow old. One of the greatest mathematicians of all time is Srinivas Ramanujan. You must be extremely good with additions and subtractions. To make numbers and calculations interesting for you, we have created an exercise for you. You see that there are boxes of numbers below. Between two numbers there is an empty space. You need to write either plus (+) or minus (-) so that result mentioned on the right side of = is achieved. Let’s take an example:
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Similarly, solve the problems below:
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Little Johnny needs help John is a footballer who is not very good at mathematics and needs your help. He wants to score a goal. To score the goal, he has to hit the ball through various boxes. A box would open only if the number of the box is 2 more than the previous box’s number in which the ball is. To start, only the box numbered 2 is open. After John hits the ball into box numbered 2, the box numbered 4 would open, and next, box numbered 6 will open and so on. Help John by indicating the path to get to 200. After he gets to 200, he can score the goal.Wish John all the best and start showing him the path.
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Can you think fast and right? Solve the Sudokus below.
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Instructions: Every small box, row and column should have all the numbers from 1 to 6. Fill in the blanks so that the numbers appear only once in each row, column and box.
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Running Race against the fastest runner You are competing against the world’s fastest runner. He takes one minute to get from “start” to “finish” in one minute. Can you beat him?
Instructions: Take a pencil. Find the path from START to END. If you don’t complete it in one minute, erase it and try it again.
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Word Finder Below is a grid of letters. There are a lot of words hiding in the grid below. Try finding as many words as possible. For example, there is the word bag which is encircled. The more words you find, the more verbal skills you have. Look in all the directions.
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How many languages do you know?Can you
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say hello in many languages? Try to talk to your friends, teachers, and neighbors, ask your parents and learn how to say hello in different languages. Whenever you find people whose mother tongue is not a language you know, you should learn a word or two from them. www.MySuperBrain.com
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Rhyming words 30 Points Can you pronounce the words correctly? In this exercise, there are words on the left hand side and on the right hand side. Match the words which rhyme. 1. Eat
A. Way
2. Kite
B. Fool
3. Knife
C. Beat
4. Play
D. Bat
5. Cat
E. Bite
6. School
F. Wife
7. Shark
G. Friend
8. Bend
H. Bark
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I. Drink
10. Ball
J. Call
11. Earth
K. Clap
12. Way
L. Birth
13. Slap
M. Play
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Coloring Activity Do you love using different colours when you are playing? If yes, you have picture smartness. All painters have very high Picture Smartness. You can be one among those. We have given you some outlines to colour. Have fun.
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Quiz Time Can you recognize some faces?
1. Who is this?
a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Mahatma Gandhi c) Sardar Vallabhai Patel d) Lal Bahadur Shashtri
2. Who is this?
Who am I? a. b. c. d.
Aamir Khan Hirthik Roshan Salman Khan Amitabh Bachan
a. b. c. d.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee P. Chidambaram Dr. Abdul Kalam Hamid Ansari
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4. Who is this?
a. b. c. d.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Manmohan Singh Dr. Abdul Kalam Rahul Gandhi
a. b. c. d.
Sarojini Naidu Sheila Dikshit Prathiba Patil Sushma Swaraj
5. Who is this?
6. Who is this?
a. Sania Mirza b. Saina Nehwal c. Priyanka Chopra d. P T Usha
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Storytelling get started‌. How good is your imagination?
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In this activity, there are a certain pieces of the story which are jumbled. Try to arrange the story in order. Even after you arrange the story bits in order, you can extend it further. Continue the story and send it to us. The best stories would be published on www.mysuperbrain.com
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Anil woke up and looked outside his window and the beautiful sunrise was an amazing sight.
2 The last period of the day was science. The students studied about the human body. They reached the school and everyone rushed to get to the assembly in time.
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4 The bus was late today and they had to hurry up.
First period of the day was Mathematics.
He brushed his teeth and went for his bath.
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Mathematics teacher Kalam taught them multiplication.
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He had his breakfast and packed his bag to go to the school.
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The school bus arrived at the gate and Ramu, the bus driver, asked Anil to get into the bus fast.
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During the lunch, Anil had lunch with his best friend Sunil.
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There are many benefits of doing such activities. It improves the imagination skills of students. Such activities can be done once every week to help students have a good level of imagination. When imagination is also mized with reason it gives great benefits.
Activity Step 1: Collect some small stories. Step 2: Collect some stickies or small sheets of paper Step 3: Take the story and write 2 sentences on each of the small pieces of paper. The first 2 sentences on one paper, the second 2 sentences on another paper and so on. Don’t use more than 15 pieces of paper. Step 4: Jumble the sheets of paper. Step 5: Now try arranging the jumbled sheets in order. Step 6: Repeat the steps 15 | P a g e www.MySuperBrain.com
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World Map Continents, Oceans & Countries Name the continents and identify them in the map below. For your convenience, the continents are colored using different colors.
Can you identify where India is? (Draw a circle around India) Which other countries can you identify in the world map? ____________________________________________________________________
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------Name the seven continents? -----------------------------------------------------------------------What are the five oceans? -----------------------------------------------------------------------The light blue color represents water and the other colors represent the continents. Now, which occupies more area – land or water? -----------------------------------------------------------------------Which is the biggest continent? -----------------------------------------------------------------------Which is the biggest Country in the world? -----------------------------------------------------------------------Which is the continent that is Yellow in Colour in the map? -----------------------------------------------------------------------Which is the continent that is Red in Colour in the map? --------------------------------------------------------------------------Which is the continent that is Blue in Colour in the map? -----------------------------------------------------------------------Which is the continent that is Orange in Colour in the map? -----------------------------------------------------------------------Which is the continent that is Green in Colour in the map? -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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India Map Know the country better Do you know India well? Below is the Indian Map with states labeled. There are certain questions after the map. Try answering them and know for yourself how well you know India.
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Which is the biggest state in India? _____________________________________________________________ How many states is S15 surrounded by? _____________________________________________________________ Which state is surrounded by the most number of states? _____________________________________________________________ Which is the northern most state? _____________________________________________________________ Which is the eastern most state? _____________________________________________________________ Which is the western most state in India? _____________________________________________________________ Which is the southernmost state in India? _____________________________________________________________ Which state is labeled S9? _____________________________________________________________ Which state is labeled S7? _____________________________________________________________ Which state is labeled S6? _____________________________________________________________ Which state is labeled S9? _____________________________________________________________ 19 | P a g e www.MySuperBrain.com
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Paper Art Have you ever made any art with paper? There is a lot of paper around us that we can use for art. Let’s see how we can make a dog using paper. It can be finished in only 15 minutes.
Step 1: Use a paper that is in square shape. Place it on the table so that it looks like a diamond like in the image. Fold the left point to meet the right point.
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Now unfold the paper and get it to its original shape.
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Step 3: Fold the top point to meet the bottom point.
Step 4: Now there are two layers. Fold the top layer up a little bit, making a tiny triangle for a mouth.
Step 5: Fold both the side corners down to the dots to form the ears, as shown. (The ears will cover part of the face.)
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Human Body Know the amazing creation Human body is pretty extra ordinary. How well do you know human body? Did you think human body is just about a couple of hands or one head or two eyes or a few fingers? 1. There are 206 bones in an adult. Babies have 94 bones more than an adult, in total 300. 2. The smallest bone found in the human body is located in the middle ear. The staples (or stirrup) bone is only 2.8 millimeters long. 3. Your heart beats around 100000 times a day, 36500000 times a year. 4. It takes the body around 12 hours to completely digest eaten food. 5. Your nose and ears continue growing throughout your entire life. 6. Your fingernails grow four times as fast as your toenails. 7. Bones are 4 times stronger than concrete. 8. The human body is 75% water. 9. The air from a sneeze can reach the speed of 160 kmph. 10. The small intestine in the human body is about 2 inches around, and 22 feet long. 11. Children have more taste buds than adults. 12. There are a total of about 640 muscles in Human Body. www.MySuperBrain.com
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Paper Tower This is a fun filled activity which can be conducted among a multiple number of students. When you have leisure period at school, you can try this fun filled group task. Have you seen the big towers on TV? Do you want to build a tower too? You can build it with newspapers and threads and nothing else. But how do you know whether it is strong? You can test the strength by doing a small check. Put a full one liter bottle on top of the tower. If the tower does not fall down, the tower is strong enough.
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Build a strong paper tower
Equipment needed
Ice cream sticks, Glue, Newspapers, threads and a one liter water bottle.
Time
25 minutes.
Team Size
3 to 6. All the teams should be of the same size. Build a structure that is tall and strong enough to support a one liter water bottle at the top.
Aim
Judging
The teams will have to work together and in the given time work together and create the structure as tall as possible. The team that builds the tallest structure that supports the one liter bottle is the winner. Do this with a teacher as the judge.
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Comprehension Test It is time to test your memory power and ability to understand things. Hope you have done a good job learning lot of cool things in the magazine. Now is the time to test your understanding of the articles and activities in this magazine. Participate in this activity only after you have read the complete magazine.
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Activity
Quizzing
Things needed
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Time
60 minutes.
Team Size
3 to 6. All the teams should be of the same size. How well have you read the magazine? Do you remember all that you have read? After you have read the magazine in detail, you can see how much you have learned or remembered. Form a team of 3 students.
Process
Judging
Prepare a set of 10 questions and get them to the class. Have a teacher help you with this quiz. Give your 10 questions to the teacher. Request the teacher to collect all the questions and then conduct a quiz for all the groups in the class. Whichever team gets the most number of questions right is the winner.
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Competitions I am sure you love participating in competitions. This is your chance to showcase your skills to people from around the world. Participate in these exciting competitions and win amazing prizes.
EXALT and www.mysuperbrain.com work hard to bring you a global platform to showcase your skills in different areas. Your entries would be viewed by students, parents, teachers, experts and enthusiasts from all over the world. It gives you a very easily accessible platform to showcase and improve your skills. It is also a great chance to discover your latent skills. We may not be aware of our greatest skills unless and until we give ourselves a chance to see how good we are. MySuperBrain.com gives you the opportunity to participate in all the competitions. Experts would look at your submissions and give you feedback. You may realize your skills because of the experts.
Parents/ Teachers/ Guardian: Below is the list of competitions the students can participate in. You can email the entries
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Essay Writing Topic
My Best friend You have a lot of friends, but who is your best friend?
What is your best friend’s name, where does he/she stay? Description What do you do together? What is his/her favorite color? What do you like the most in your best friend? Do you hate something about your best friend? Prize
Medals, Certificates and T Shirts to be given to the top three candidates
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Painting Topic
School Did you ever draw your school on paper?
Description
How does your school look like? If you wanted to your relatives to know how your school looks like what would you do? Draw your school in such a way that your relatives in faraway places know how your school looks like. Try to draw on a single coloured paper so that it looks nice. Do not draw too many things in too little a space. You can put the best ones in your classroom. Ask your parents or teachers to send it to us. We will let the world know how your school looks like.
Prize
Medals, Certificates and T Shirts to be given to the top three candidates
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Projects Topic
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Paper mountains
Description Use paper to make mountains. You can use any paper and build a mountain range. Use your creativity to build a great setup. You can send your report on the project or email the pictures of the set up. Ask your parents or teachers to send it to us. We will let the world know how your project looks like. Prize
Medals, Certificates and T Shirts to be given to the top three candidates
SuperBrain of the Day We are all very special. Every day we feature one special kid as the “SuperBrain of the Day�. This is to encourage students to showcase their skills and also give them the recognition and a pat on their back for a job well done. Guardians/ Teachers: If you wish to feature your kids/ wards on the Home page of the website as the SuperBrain of the Day, all you have to do is write to us at info@mysuperbrain.com. The write up should be written by the student himself/ herself. Encourage kids to write about themselves, their interests, their hobbies, parents and school.
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www.mysuperbrain.com www.mysuperbrain.com is India’s first website that is aimed at improving multiple skills in students. Every student is special. Every student has different skills. At www.mysuperbrain.com, we improve your skills and showcase it to the world. Imagine your painting or essay or a project getting showcased to the whole world. Students, teachers, parents and experts from across the world would view your work and give you feedback and points. You can also read about various topics and improve your knowledge, play educational games to improve your skills in Logical thinking, Creativity, Vocabulary, Number crunching, Writing, Painting, Projects, Music etc. You can even talk to experts from various domains like scientists, artists, engineers, doctors, sportsmen, psychologists, businessmen etc. There are exciting prizes to be won too, including laptops, books, Tshirts, certificates and medals. How to register? 1. 2. 3. 4.
Go to www.mysuperbrain.com Click on “Join Now” button at the top of the Homepage Enter your details and register. Registration is “free”.
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Points Summary Parents/ Teachers/ Guardians: There are various activities in the magazine. Each of the activities has some points assigned to it. How many points has your kid/ ward earned? This is just to summarize the learning. It would also give an idea of where the student is doing well and where he isn’t. It is also a great indicator of their skills and interest in various areas. Area
Points earned
Number Skills Verbal Skills Logical Skills Colouring Quiz Storytelling Map Activity Paper Art Group Tasks Competitions
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