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Discuss (Page 150)
Question 1.
What are the children and the teacher doing in the picture?
Answer:
The children and the teacher are cleaning the garden.
Question 2.
Why are they cleaning the park?
Answer:
They are cleaning the park as they are celebrating National Cleanliness Day.
Question 3.
Have you ever seen piles of waste lying around your home or school?
Answer:
Yes, I have seen the piles of waste lying around my house and school.
Question 4.
Have you ever thought about how this waste is created?
Answer:
This waste is created by the people. The waste comes from our houses. For example, bottles, vegetable peels and wrappers.
Activity 1 (Page 150)
Question 1.
Recall different activities that you and your elders do during the day. How do these activities create waste? Finally, what do we do with the waste?
Answer:
The activities that create waste are described in the table below.
| Activities | How Waste is created? | What do we do with the waste? |
| Eating biscuits | Wrappers of biscuit packet | Throw in the dustbin |
| Peeling fruits and vegetables | Peels of fruits and vegetables | Use as a manure in plants |
| Drinking soft drinks | Plastic bottles and Cans | Reuse bottles as water bottle and flower pot |
| Sharpening of pencils | Pencil shavings | Throw in the dustbin |
Question 2.
Share your findings with your classmates.
Answer:
Do it yourself.
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Question 3.
How do you feel about it?
Answer:
It feels very dirty to see these piles of waste.
Question 4.
Do you think we can do something about it?
Answer:
We can do the following things about it
- We can talk to our neighbours to clean it once a week.
- We can inform the Municipal Corporation
- We can start a reuse and recycle program.
Discuss (Page 152)
Question 1.
How clean are the surroundings of your school?
Answer:
The surroundings of our school are very clean. But, sometimes there is a pile of garbage in our school ground.
Question 2.
Do you find waste lying in or outside your classrooms or on the school grounds?
Answer:
No, there is no waste lying outside in our classrooms because they get cleaned every day.
Yes, there are waste leaves in the ground.
Draw (Page 153)
Question 1.
Draw or paste a picture of a locality. Identify the places where there is garbage or wastewater or smoke by circling them in red. Try to find out how the waste gets there.
Answer:
Do it yourself.
Activity 3 (Page 153)
Question 2.
How can you help in reducing waste?
Answer:
We can help in reducing waste in many ways such as
- Using cloth bags instead of plastic to carry fruits and vegetables.
- Re using plastic containers.
- Using the peels to make compost for plants.
- Donating old things like clothes, books, papers to the needy people.
Activity 4 (Page 155)
Question 1.
How can you reuse things to reduce waste?
Answer:
We can reuse things to reduce waste in the following ways
- Using the waste items like matchbox, bottles, egg tray to make crafts like showpieces.
- Making carpets, cushion covers with the old clothes.
Activity 5 (Page 157)
Question 1.
Create an item using waste material that you can give as a gift to someone.
Answer:
Do it yourself
Find Out (Page 157)
Question 1.
Ask your elders, if there is any village, town or city that they know about, which is known for its cleanliness. You can share the information you learn from your elders in your class.
Answer:
Mawlynnlong village in Meghalaya is known as the cleanest village in India.
Question 2.
Find out from your parents or teachers about the Swachh Bharat Mission.
Answer:
Swachh Bharat Mission was launched by our Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 2nd October, 2014. It was launched to make toilets. It was inspired by the Mahatma Gandhi’s idea of cleanliness.
Activity 6 (Page 159)
Separate Your Waste
Question 1.
Two dustbins are drawn below. Write the names of the waste material which will go into each of them.
Plastic bottles, leaves, onion peels, light bulbs, rotten fruit, paper, eggshells, used plastic milk packets, cloth
Answer:
Green Dustbin Leaves, onion peels, rotten fruit, eggshells
Blue Dustbin Plastic bottles, light bulbs, paper, used plastic milk packets, cloth
Write (Page 160)
Question 1.
List the things that you can do to keep your home and classroom clean?
Answer:
Things I can do to clean my home are
- Keeping my room tidy.
- Keeping my books properly.
- Keeping my clothes at the proper place.
- After eating any toffee, throwing the wrappers in the dustbin.
Things I can do to clean my classroom are
- Throwing the foil paper in the dustbin during my lunch break.
- Throwing the pencil shavings into the dustbin.
Question 2.
Make a list of tools you have seen being used in your school or neighbourhood for cleaning.
Answer:
Things that we use for cleaning in schools or neighbourhood are broom, mop, wiper, dustbin, water pipes, etc.
Question 3.
Have you ever observed the tools that are used in your home for cleaning? Make a list of these tools.
Answer:
The tools used for cleaning are broom, water mugs, buckets,brush, old clothes, foam pads, bathroom cleaners, etc.
Let us Reflect (Page 161 & 162)
A. Discuss
Question 1.
How is waste created?
Answer:
Waste is created by throwing many things such as old clothes, pencil shavings, tea leaves, old batteries, plastic bottles, etc.
Question 2.
How can we manage waste?
Answer:
We can manage waste by following ways
- By reducing our waste like using cloth bag.
- By reusing our old clothes to make bags or quilts.
- By separating the dry and wet waste into the two dustbins.
B. Write
Question 1.
To avoid use of plastic bags and bottles, look at your home and school closely. List all the items of plastic material and write how these could be replaced by other safe materials.
Answer:
The plastic materials at our home and their safer alternatives are given below:
| Plastic Materials | Safe Materials |
| Plastic Bottles Disposable spoons plates Plastic casserole |
Steel bottle or pots Paper plates Steel |
Question 2.
Name three things in your school and home that you would put in the green dustbin and three things that you would put in the blue dustbin.
Answer:
The things that we put in the green dustbin are egg shells, vegetable waste and dried leaves.
The things that we put in the blue dustbin are metal, glass and paper waste.
C. Draw in your notebook
Question 1.
Make a poster to show a village or town that is managing its waste well. Give your poster a suitable title.
Answer:
You can cover the following points in your conversation. Clean Town
- People keep me clean.
- There is no garbagee on the roadsides
- Dustbins are kept at every 2 km
- All roads are clean.
- No drain in overflowing
- Dirty Town
- People throw garbage here and there
- Trash is lying on my roadsides
- Drains are overflowing with dirty water
- There are very few dustbins
D. Enact in pairs
Question 1.
You can be a clean town and your partner a dirty town. Engage in a short conversation talking about how you feel about being the way you are.
Answer:
Do it yourself
E. Think, Reflect and Share
Question 1.
Imagine you are having a birthday party at your home. What are some of the ways in which you can try to have a zero-waste birthday party? For this, first think about what kind of waste may be created in the birthday party and how you can avoid or reduce it.
Answer:
We can organise a zero waste birthday party in many ways
- For decoration, use natural things like flowers rather than any plastic material.
- Serve home made drinks instead of any packaged drinks which come in plastic bottles.
- Serve the food and drinks in steel utensils.
Question 2.
Have you seen waste in nature? What do you think happens to the waste of animals, dried leaves and so on in a forest?
Answer:
Yes, I have seen waste in nature.
The waste of animals, dried leaves and other gets mix with the soil. It then converts into compost. This compost is helpful for both the plants and tiny animals living in the soil.