Primary School (English Medium) Class 4 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for Environmental Studies

“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 or anybody else at home know other such songs?

Collect songs, poems, etc., on flowers. Write them down and put them up in the classroom.

Are any special flowers used on certain occasions/festivals by your elders? Make a list of different occasions and the flowers used at each.

Have you ever seen anyone selling flowers anywhere? If there are any flower-sellers nearby ask them these questions and write -

• What are the different flowers that they sell? Ask them the names of three flowers.
• Where do they bring these flowers from?
• Why do people buy flowers?
• In what forms do flower-sellers sell their flowers? Look at these pictures. Tick against those forms that you have seen.
  
  Any other form that you have seen -
• Have you seen flowers offered at many religious places?
• What do we do when they dry up?
• How will you use them?

Some flowers are used in different forms - like rose and marigold are used in garlands and as loose petals too.

• Find out the prices of these different forms.
  

  One flower	______
  One garland	______
  One bouquet	______

• Has the flower-seller learnt to make bouquets or a net of flowers from anybody? From whom?
• Would they like the other members of their family to do this work? Why?

You could do this in groups of five or six each.

• Collect flowers that have fallen from trees or plants and bring them to the class.
• Spread these flowers neatly between the sheets of an old newspaper.
• Make sure that the flowers do not touch each other.
• Now put a heavy object on the newspaper. Leave it pressed for ten to fifteen days at one place.
• After this, take out all the flowers very carefully and prepare a scrap book. You can take a used notebook or old newspapers for this.
• You can also use these dried flowers to make pretty cards.

Draw a flower of your choice and write its name below.

Talk to any one of your grandparents or any other elderly person. Find out, when she or he was eight-nine years old -

• Where did she or he live? Name that place.
• From what material was her or his house made?
• Did they have a toilet in their house? If no, where was it?
• In which part of the house was food cooked?
• A lot of mud was used when Chetandas' house was made. Why?

Chetandas tells that people from the basti used to come to clean the toilets and take away the waste. They were not allowed to enter the house.

• The people who used the toilets did not clean them. Discuss.
• Is there a toilet in your house? Who cleans it?

What material have been used in making your house?

Find out the material from which your friend's house is made? Is there any difference between your house and his house? Write about it.

What kind of house do you think Chetandas' grandchildren will live in?

Where would you like to live when you grow up? What kind of house would you like?

You had written about the things that your grandparent’s house was made of. Has some of those materials been used in your house? Name them.

Look at the picture. People are given names according to the work they do. For example, a person who works with wood is called a carpenter.

In your place, what do you call a person who works with wood?

Now, look at the picture and fill in the table.

What kind of work is being done by different people here?

What tools are they shown using in the picture? Write them in the given table.

Do you know people who do these type of work? Talk to them and find out about their work. Discuss it with your friends.

With your teacher or someone from home, go to a place where a building is being constructed. Talk to the people working there and find out answers to these questions.

• What is being built there?
• How many people are working there?
• What kind of work are they doing?
• How many men and women are there?
• Are any children working there? What are they doing?
• How much money do these people get paid daily? Ask from any three different people.
• Where do these people live?
• What are the materials being used for making the building?
• Try and guess how many trucks of bricks and bags of cement will be used for making the building.

How does the material reach the building site? (By truck, handcart, any other vehicle) List them.

Find out the price of

Ask a few other questions and write their answers.