Friday 26 February 2021

Chapter 5 SAVE OUUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

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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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Task

Reason

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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?

SR. NO.

QUESTION

YES/ ALWAYS

SOME TIMES

NEVER

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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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Do 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 you recycle and reuse the empty cans and bottles?

 

 

 

 

 

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.

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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