Secondary School (English Medium) (5 to 8) Class 5 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for Environmental Studies

Imagine that you are an animal in a cage. Think how you would feel. Complete the following sentence:

I do not like it at all when ______

Chew it or chew it well: What’s the difference?

Try this together in class: 

Each of you takes a piece of bread or roti or some cooked rice.

Put it in your mouth, chew three to four times and swallow it.

Did the taste change as you chewed it?

Now take another piece or some rice and chew it thirty to thirty-two times.

Was there any change in the taste after chewing so many times? 

Where do you think the food must be going after you put it in your mouth and swallow it? In the picture given here, draw the path of the food through your body. Share your picture with your friends. Do all of you have similar pictures?

Aman’s Biji went to the market to buy bread. The shop was very crowded. The shopkeeper picked up a packet of bread and gave it to Biji. She looked at it and returned it immediately.

How did she find that the bread had got spoilt?

Are rotis made in your home? From which grains are they made?

Have you eaten roti made from bajra or jowar? Did you like these?

In your house what is done to protect grains and pulses from insects?

Which are the different festivals related to farming, celebrated in different seasons? Find out more about anyone such festival and write in your notebook –

The name of the festival, in which season is it celebrated, in which states of India, what special foods are made, is it celebrated only at home with the family, or together with many people.

Talk to the elders in your family and find out if there were some special foods cooked earlier that are not cooked anymore?

Find out about the crops - cereals, vegetables, pulses - that are grown in your area. Of those, is there anything that is famous across the country?

Did you keep aniseed (saunf) and cumin (jeera) on your list? 

Can you recognize these grains?

Which was the smallest seed and which was the biggest seed in your collection?

The bajra seed saw differences in the way Damjibhai and Hasmukh did farming (for example, in irrigation, ploughing, etc). What were these differences?

Hasmukh said, “With profits from our fields, we can progress.” What is your understanding of ‘progress’?

What kind of progress would you like to see in your area?

Make lists of :

Seeds that are used as spices in your home.

What can happen to Hasmukh’s farm after some years?

Make lists of :

Seeds of vegetables.

Damjibhai’s son Hasmukh chose to become a farmer like his father. Hasmukh’s son Paresh is not a farmer, but a truck driver. Why would he have done so?