Race to the finish
As the lockdown continues, here’s another game to engage yourself and keep physically active. Click here to be inspired…
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Intelligent experiments
Go on a scavenger hunt, conduct an orchestra, learn new languages and do a lot more, all from home! Try out these fun AI-based activities.
Lockdown blues getting you down? If you have run out of ideas to keep yourself occupied, artificial intelligence (AI) could come to your rescue.
AI is the ability of a computer program or a machine to think and learn. Computers with AI can perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence. Scroll through the slides to discover five interesting AI-based activities to try out.
Take this quick quiz based on what you have just read:
Let’s go anywhere!
Unravel a whole new world and travel the globe as you go from country to country in this word search.
Travelling is an experience that teaches you a lot. Some of them are:
You see the world in a new perspective.
You will learn a lot about yourselves too as you meet new people and see newer things.
You learn as you explore and appreciate how great the world is.
It helps in building confidence.
You learn more about your own culture and that of the places you visit.
Let the travel bug bite you in the coming months and may you get to see newer countries. For now unscramble the 12 words in the clue and then find those countries in the grid.
Word Sudoku
If Sudoku puzzles are your kind of thing, here’s a different twist to them. Can you crack it?
If you love puzzles then this one is for you. This is a different kind of Sudoku with a grid with alphabets! In this 4×4 grid you will have to arrange the letters to form a word.
How to play
The objective of the game is to fill the missing letters into the grid. For this 4×4 -grids, use the alphabets R, S, T, A.
In each column, row and block you can use each digit only once. Drag and drop the letters (E, A, L, F) given beside the grid in their right places.
Sudoku Rules
1. Each row will upon completion contain all of the letters of R, S, T, A.
2. Each column will upon completion contain all of the letters of R, S, T, A.
3. Once completed, one of the rows/columns will spell out a word. Type it in the black space below to make a guess.
World under lock
Countries across the world have implemented a lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus resulting in cities and roads wearing a deserted look. Take a look at a few…
The roads are empty, the streets quieter, the air is cleaner…countries across the world are implementing lockdown, a measure to slow the spread of coronavirus. Though the level and area of restrictions may vary, according to the media more than a third of the planet’s population is under some form of restriction.
Let’s take a look at some cities, usually bustling with people and activity, now wearing a deserted look.
Sporty start
So many sports in the world we aren’t familiar with. Nor do we know where they came from. Here’s a chance to find out about some of them.
You are all familiar with sports such as cricket, tennis, badminton, football, and so on. But have you heard of Kin ball, mallakhamb, tchoukball, Kyūdō, parkour and snow volleyball?
Kin ball is played between three teams at the same time. A game is usually played until one team has won three periods where each period takes about ten minutes. Mallakhamb is a traditional sport where a gymnast performs aerial yoga postures and wrestling grips in concert with a vertical stationary or hanging wooden pole or cane. In Tchoukball, to score a point, the ball must be thrown by an attacking player, hit the frame (like a small trampoline which measures one square metre) and bounce outside the ‘D'(a semicircular forbidden zone) without being caught by the defending team.
Then there is Kyūdō, the martial art of archery. Experts in kyūdō are known as kyūdōka. It is practised in different schools, some of which come from military shooting, and others that descend from ceremonial practice. Parkour is a training discipline using movement where the aim is to get from one point to another in a complex environment, without equipment, as fast as possible. Snow volleyball is a winter team sport played by two teams of three players on a snow court, divided by a net. Each team tries to score points by sending a ball over the net to the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by them.
Now, do you know where these sports originated from? Try your hand at this memory game, to find out.
Love for languages – 1
With a little more time on our hands, pick up quick vocabulary from foreign languages in this new series. We begin with French. Bienvenue!
It’s always useful to learn a new language, especially if you plan to travel to the country. Keeping quick phrases and words handy can help you communicate with the people there. Picking up a language is a fun hobby as well!
Delve into some quick French vocabulary in this article. Can you choose the correct answers to the below questions?
Crowning glory
Be the king or queen for the day with this origami crown that you can make yourself! Follow these steps and try this out at home.
Battle cries
April 21 marks the anniversary of the First Battle of Panipat. To commemorate the occasion, can you spot all the differences in the picture?
April 21 marks the 494th anniversary of the First Battle of Panipat which took place in 1526. The battle was fought between the invading forces of Babur and the Lodhi dynasty. It took place in North India and marked the beginning of the Mughal Empire and the end of the Delhi Sultanate. This was one of the earliest battles involving gunpowder firearms and field artillery in the Indian subcontinent which were introduced by Mughals in this battle.
The battle was fought near the small village of Panipat, in the present day state of Haryana, an area that has been the site of a number of decisive battles for the control of Northern India since the twelfth century.
Below is one of the many paintings depicting a scene at the battle. The painting on the right, however, has six things that are different from the image on the left. Can you spot them all?
Your questions, answered! – 1
Amidst the lockdown, your mind must be buzzing with questions. Here are a few answers to questions some of you had sent in about the pandemic. Read on…
In the past few months, almost all news revolved around the coronavirus and COVID-19. We asked you if you had any questions of your own about the pandemic. Here are the answers to a few questions sent in by children from across the country.
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