Primary School (English Medium) इयत्ता ४ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for Environmental Studies

Here are some pictures of flowers. Mark a (✓) on the flowers which you recognise. Write their names too if you know.

From the pictures given above, and other flowers that you know, give names of two which

Are there any trees or plants which never have any flowers? Find out and write.

1. Have you ever seen a board like this put up anywhere?
2. Do people pluck flowers even when this board is there?
3. Why do you think they do this?
4. Should they do this?
5. What would happen if everybody plucked flowers?

Children who can bring flowers may bring one or two flowers to class. Remember that you must collect only fallen flowers. Do not pluck any flowers. Make groups of three or four children and look at one flower carefully -

• What is the colour of the flower?
• What kind of a scent does it have?
• What does it look like – a bell, a bowl, a brush or anything else?
• Do these flowers grow in bunches?
• How many petals does it have?
• Are all the petals joined together or separate?
• Outside the petals, can you see any green leafy structure? How many are there?
• Inside the petals, in the middle of the flower, can you see some thin structures? Write its colour.
• When you touch these, do you find a powdery thing on your hands?

You must have seen buds on the plants. If there are any flower-bearing plants growing near your school or home, look carefully at their buds.

What differences do you find between a flower and a bud?

Draw the picture of a bud and its flower in your notebook.

Can you tell how many days will a bud take to bloom into a flower? Let us try and find out.

1. Choose a bud that is growing on a plant and look at it every day. Write the name of the plant.
2. When you first saw this bud, the date was _________. Now when the bud has bloomed into a flower, the date is _______. How many days did the bud take to become a flower?
3. Ask your friends the names of the different flowers that they have seen. How much time did it take their buds to become flowers?
4. Also, observe how many days the same flower took to dry.

What are the different ways we use flowers in our daily life?

Do you know that flowers can be eaten as well? Many flowers are cooked as vegetables.

Are flowers cooked in your home as a dry vegetable, a gravy dish or as a chutney? Find out which flowers are used for these.

Find out the names of any two flowers which are used for making medicines?

How is rose water used in your house? Is it used as medicine, sweets, lassi or something else? Find out and tell others.

Find out and write the names of some more flowers that are used for making colours.

Can you think of a colour of which there is no flower?

Write the names of such flowers which are used to make scents.

Have you ever read or heard any songs about flowers?

Let us sing this song -

“Good gardener, make for my Banna a garland of flowers;
She went looking for flowers in the garden in heaven;
Make a garland of flower buds if there are no flowers…”

“Good gardener, make for my Banna a garland of flowers;
She went looking for flowers in the garden in heaven;
Make a garland of flower buds if there are no flowers…”

Do you know when such songs are sung?