DEHRADUN PUBLIC SCHOOL

HOLIDAY HOMEWORK (2025-2026)

CLASS-VII
(The summer holiday homework is also available on school website i.e. www.ddps.in)

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Dear Students,
Summer has arrived and brought with it your amazing and fun-filled holidays. Summer break is
a well-deserved opportunity to relax and unwind by indulging in various activities. Your Holiday
Homework has been specially designed for you to be creative, innovative and imaginative while
completing your tasks. It will also enable you to recapitulate what was taught in the classrooms.
We hope you will play, learn, research, analyze, experiment, imagine, think, value, appreciate
and above all enjoy during your holidays.
Wishing you happy holidays!
Instructions for the students:
❖ Do your holiday homework in your respective subject notebooks.
❖ Mention date and day when you do your work.
❖ Use your creativity and imagination wherever required.
❖ Submit your holiday homework when the school re-opens.
❖ Use the holidays to thoroughly prepare topics given in July Periodic Test Syllabus.

ENGLISH
READING
Q1. Rabindranath Tagore, known as the ‘Gurudev’ (respected teacher), Kabiguru (teacher of poetry),
and Biswakabi (world poet) was also referred to as ‘the Bard of Bengal’.
Read the poem titled as ‘Paper Boats’ composed by Rabindranath Tagore and write down the
summary of the poem. Also find out five difficult words from this poem and write down their
meanings in your notebook.

WRITING
Q2. A comic strip is a sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or
form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Create a Comic Strip for the
place that you have visited during your summer vacation using interesting pictures, descriptions,
and experiences.

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Q3. Read the given clues and fill the correct synonyms in the boxes. Also copy the puzzle in your
notebook.

SPEAKING
Q4. If you were a character in the Harry Potter Universe, which character would you choose to be and
why? Speak about it in front of mirror and also write it in your notebook.

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UN’S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL-3: HEALTH AND WELL BEING
Q5. Create a one-week health diary and maintain the following record.
MY JOURNEY TO WELLNESS

DAYS MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

DAILY FRUIT
INTAKE
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MATHEMATICS
Q1. Use a thick sheet of paper and some thread to cut out and assemble the nets of a cone and a
cylinder. Refer to the example in this link (https://pin.it/36mYDPSrS) for guidance on
constructing the 3D shapes.
Q2. Move from the starting point to the finishing point by marking arrows from a smaller decimal
number to a bigger decimal number. The first two arrows have been marked for you. Cut and paste
this decimal based activity in your notebook.

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Q3. A farmer had a square plot of land. He gave ¼ of it to his wife as shown in the figure. He asked his
four sons to share the remaining portion of the land equally such that they all get the same shape.
Help the sons divide the land. Represent the division on a diagram.

Q4. Bacteria can divide in every 15 minutes. So, one bacterium can multiply to 2 in 30 minutes, 4 in 45
minutes and so on.
i. How many bacteria will be there in 1 hour?
ii. How many bacteria will be there in 4 hours?
iii. Write 655360000 in scientific notation.
iv. Write 7.9 X 106 in expanded form.

UN’S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL-3: HEALTH AND WELL BEING

Q5. A person consumes 2,500 calories in a day. They burn calories through various activities:
Walking burns 400 calories
Running burns 700 calories
Sleeping burns 500 calories
i. Represent the calorie intake as a positive integer and the calories burnt as negative integers.
ii. Find the total calories burnt.
iii. Calculate the net calories balance for the day.
iv. If the person needs a net intake of 1,000 calories to maintain weight, how many more or fewer
calories do they need to consume?

SCIENCE
Q1. SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
i. If plants have a requirement for nitrogen, then from where will they obtain it?
ii. The mercury does not fall or rise in a clinical thermometer when taken out of the mouth. Explain
why.
iii. Explain why the radiators in cars are painted black.
iv. Describe the importance of photosynthesis in plant nutrition.
v. What are the three types of particles that make up an atom?

Q2. VALUE-BASED QUESTION

On last Monday, Pankaj was dealing immense cough and cold. Besides this, he was suffering from a
severe headache. So, he decided to take a leave on that day so that he could take some rest at his
home. After one hour he thought to check his fever through a clinical thermometer, so before using
it, he washed it and started shaking it very fast in his hand, so that the mercury level of
thermometer gets reduced. To see this, his elder brother Vishwas scolded him and suggested
him to shake the thermometer slowly.
i. State some precautionary measures while checking the fever through a clinical thermometer.
ii. How does the use of a clinical thermometer promote health and hygiene?
iii. Mention the values showed by the elder brother of Pankaj.

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Q3. PROJECT BASED QUESTION
i. Choose three different cereals and research their nutritional values. Create a comparison chart
and discuss the findings.
ii. Imagine you are a particle in a solid, liquid, or gas. Write a story about your journey and
interactions with other particles.

Q4. LEARNING WITH FUN

Spot as many organisms as possible in the puzzle given below by encircling them. Write down
the names on a sheet of paper and categorize them into autotrophs and heterotrophs. Classify the
heterotrophs into herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and saprophytes.

B R O S E A T C R O W
A A G N B H I N D I B
N B N G I N G E R C L
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A I M U S H R O O M F
N T G B E R M W F I O
E L E P H A N T S C X
T S A E Y N P H B E E
C A R R O T U L S I X

UN’S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL-3: GOOD HEALTH AND WELL BEING

Q5. If you were the Health Ambassador of your school, how would you make sure that every student
stays healthy and happy? Write five ways on sharing your health plans for the school.

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Q1. Conduct a research on the evolution of transport from ancient times to the modern era and answer
the following questions:
i. What were the earliest forms of transportation used by humans?
ii. Compare old and modern means of transport in terms of speed and efficiency.
iii. What do you think the future of transportation will look like?
iv. Use your imagination and draw a vehicle you want to see in future.

Q2. Conduct an interview with your grandparents and create a short report including different social
changes they have witnessed:
i. Changes in education
ii. Changes in technology
iii. Changes in communication
iv. Changes in environment
v. The impact of the change
vi. Whether the change has been positive or negative.

Q3. Explain why India is known as a Subcontinent. Discuss the important features of India's climate.
Describe the pattern of rainfall in India and its significance for agriculture and the economy.
Also describe the climate of India and pattern of rainfall on a map.

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Q4. Diwali, the festival of lights celebrated in India shares similarities to Lantern festival of Taiwan.

Compare both the festivals on the basis of the points given below:
i. The history and origin of both the festivals
ii. The way they are celebrated these days
iii. The cultural significance of these festivals
iv. Unique traditions or rituals associated with them

UN’S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL-3: HEALTH AND WELL BEING

Q5. Good health and well-being are essential for a happy life. Healthy and organic food plays an
important role in that.
What do you mean by organic food? Enlist the top 10 countries that produce organic food. Locate
and label these 10 countries on the world map. Name the country which has the largest area of
organic farmland.

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WEEKLY TASKS
❖ Meaningful Monday:
Read the newspaper and find out five new words. Note down these words and their meanings in your
notebook.
❖ Tech Tuesday:
Watch some educational videos on youtube.com/c/DDPSIndia/playlists and write a two-line summary
of what you learned from the video(s). Remember to mention the title of the video(s) that you watched.
❖ Weather Wednesday:
Every Wednesday find out the temperature of your place, note down the minimum and maximum
temperature and next week compare it with the temperature of previous week.
❖ Thoughtful Thursday:
Go through the international news headlines of the day. Note down the news headlines that grabbed
your attention the most. Study a little more about it.
❖ Fun Friday:
Read a book, article or story related to History, Geography or Civics. You may also solve quizzes, play
games related to Social Science.
A moment of mindfulness
These ordinary practices may bring extraordinary results.
❖ Talk to your grandparents/elders at home and ask them what are their core values and
principles in life.
❖ Help your parents in the household work like organizing, cleaning, cooking, laundry etc.
❖ Keep your room and study table neat and tidy. Remove clutter.
❖ Prepare a time table to schedule your activities. Practice a daily routine.
❖ Keep grains and water for birds on the roof/balcony of your house.

(The summer holiday homework is also available on school website i.e. www.ddps.in)

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