Dear parents,
Hope you all participated in the #NakshathraKidsAtHome competition happening at our Facebook page.Here is the fourth set of revision for the students. Happy learning!
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Reading Activity - Albert Einstein:
Perhaps one of the most famous scientists of all time, Einstein is known as “the greatest genius of the 20th century.” That is quite a title! What did he accomplish to achieve this world-famous status?
Born in Germany in 1879, Albert Einstein’s family moved around a lot when he was a child. In 1896, he trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics, at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich. However, he was unable to find work as a teacher, so he went to work at the Swiss Patent Office. In the year 1905, he completed his doctor’s degree. While working at the patent office, he produced a lot of his most remarkable work. He went on to hold many distinguished titles, including Professor Extraordinary at Zurich, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Prague, and Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute. He was a professor in the University of Berlin, as well as a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Princeton.
In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the photoelectric effect. This was a complicated hypothesis which was later confirmed, indicating that light can consist of particles, and that the energy of any light particle is proportional to the frequency of the radiation. Have you ever wondered, “Why is the sky blue? Einstein wrote a complicated equation which answered this question. The sky is blue on a clear day because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light.
Einstein immigrated to the United States in 1940. He made many important discoveries, and like Newton, he studied optics and matter. His most famous formula is E=mc2, indicating that mass and energy are equivalent and interchangeable properties – this is the Special Theory of Relativity. While Einstein did not invent the atomic bomb, it is widely agreed that his theories laid the foundation for its invention. Albert Einstein died in 1955 after giving much of his life to the world of science.
Fun activity of the day: Improve your vocabulary: Here are some of the words we think your child should know. Please make them learn, understand and take a dictation
estimate, eternal, exclude, expanse, expedition, extend, exterminate, extreme, factor, fare, fascinating, fatal, fatigue, feat, feeble, ferry, fertilizer, festive, fiber, finance, flammable, flexible, focus, foul, foundation, fragrant, frail, function, fuse, fuss, gallant, garment, generosity, genuine, glamour, glare, gradual, grasp, grudge, grumble, hangar, haste, hatch, haven, hazardous, hazy, hectic, horde, hospitality, hostage, huddle, humble, humid, ignorance, immigrant, immune, implore, impressive, inconvenient, incredible, indicate, industrious, inept, inflate, inhabit, inhibit, inspire, install, instrument, interior, interpret, intrigue, invaluable, invasion, isle
Happy learning!
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