Chapter 5 SAVE OUUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
5.1 Introduction
Dear students,
Close your eyes and imagine that you
are standing in a garden or a park. Try to remember all the things you see in the
park. Now open your eyes and enlist the things seen by you and categorise them
into man-made and natural things.
Children, natural things are the things that are formed
naturally without any intervention of the human beings, like mountains, trees,
plants, clouds, water, air, animals, etc.
Man-made
things Natural things
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Now, enlist any four things provided by nature without
which we cannot live and write the human activities which are harmful for them.
Write down the ways to conserve them.
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5.2
Dear students, nature has provided us
numerous gifts such as air, water, land, sunlight, minerals, forest, animals,
etc. All these gifts of nature make our earth a place worth living. Let us try
to conserve these natural resources collectively.
ACTIVITY
You have ten minutes. All the
students go out of class and perform some activities within your school campus
which can save our natural environment. After coming back to the class, every
student will explain and note down the activities along with their reasons
which he/she finds the best and the most important.
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Considering
it your duty towards environment, make these activities a part of your habits.
5.3
Dear students, being eco-friendly
means doing things which do not harm the environment. With a little care we can
make a huge contribution to save the environment.
Let us see, how
eco-friendly we are? Answer the following questions in terms of yes, sometimes
and never.
How
eco-friendly are you?
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Do
you plant trees? |
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Do
you carry your own jute or cloth bags while going to the market? |
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Do
you close the tap while brushing your teeth? |
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Do
you switch off the lights and fans before leaving the room? |
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Do
you throw the garbage or waste in the dustbin? |
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you have a compost pit at your home? |
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Do
you segregate the waste as wet or dry and put it in separate dustbins? |
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Do
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Score yourself: yes/ always = 03,
sometimes -02, never -01
Obtained marks: __________
I will make the following activities
as a part of my life to increase my scores in eco-friendliness.
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Students, through another activity,
let us try to find out how much we are aware of our environment. Examine the
pictures given below from the point of view of environmental safety.
Safe /Unsafe
1. Safe /Unsafe
2. Safe /Unsafe
3. Safe /Unsafe
4. Safe /Unsafe
5. Safe /Unsafe
6. Safe /0nsafe
7. Safe /Unsafe
8. Safe /Unsafe
9. Safe /Unsafe
While explaining the reason for your
categorization, give measures to protect the environment.
Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3
Picture 4
Picture 5
Picture 6
Picture 7
Picture 8
Picture 9
Know
about some other ways to save the environment by discussing it with your
teacher.
5.4
Dear
students, keep three things in mind if we want to save our environment: _
REDUCE, REUSE, AND RECYCLE. By using
these three methods, we can all work together to reduce waste and save our
natural resources from getting wasted.
Choose from the items in the word box that can be
reduced, reused and recycled.
WORD BOX
Clothes, Plastic bags, Kitchen waste,
Paper, Old books, Cartons, Glass bottles, Plastic bottles, Newspaper, Old toys.
REDUCE
REUSE RECYCLE
Students, discuss with your teacher what message do you
get from following pictures and also tell how you will apply this message in
your daily life.
Dustbin 1(Paper Waste)
Dustbin 2(Bio-Waste)
Dustbin 3(Plastic
Waste)
Special
suggestions from the Teacher to the Student
