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प्रश्न
Have you ever seen a plant growing from a crack in a wall?
- Where was it?
- Did you have any questions when you saw it?
- What were some of your questions? Ask elders and find the answers.
- Find out the name of the plant you saw.
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उत्तर
Yes, I saw a plant that grew over the wall of my school.
- That was at the back of the wall of my school.
- Yes, I have one question in my mind.
- From where does the seed of that plant come on the wall?
Answer: The seed of that very tree was carried by a bird to the wall. - That was a banyan plant.
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Nowadays Abdul keeps thinking about all kinds of plants that he sees.
Abdul saw a plant growing out of a wall in school. He wondered-
- How deep must the roots of this plant be going?
- How do the roots get water?
- How big will this plant grow?
- What will happen to the wall?
- Can you give the name of the plant in the picture?
Abdul saw a huge tree that had fallen on the roadside. He remembered the neem tree in his courtyard. He could see some of its broken roots. Abdul thought–
- Would someone have uprooted such a big tree or would it have fallen on its own?
- How old would this tree be?
- Abdul on seeing a tree surrounded by cemented ground, thought that how will it get rain water?
Which are the oldest trees in your area?
- Find out from your elders how old the trees are?
- Name animals who live on this tree.
- Have you ever seen any big tree that had fallen down? What did you think when you saw it?
Arif and Roopali did the below activity. They saw the seedlings grow. When asked – what are the things that grow? They had very different ideas about things that grow.
Arif made a list of the following – Leaves, munna, bud, puppy, nails, fish.
Roopali’s list had – Moon, tree, I, hair, watermelon, mosquito, crow.
- What do you think? Which of these things listed by Arif and Roopali grow?
- Why don’t you make your own list of things that grow? Your list can include the names of things that are in Arif’s and Roopali’s list.
Think about yourself – in what ways have you changed over a period of time? Have you grown in any way? For example –
- Has your height increased? How much taller have you grown in the last one year?
- Imagine that you had never cut your nails! Draw a picture of your fingers in the notebook to show how they would have looked.
- What other part of your body (some people cut it regularly) keeps growing?
