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

Talk with your grandparents or elderly people and find out what they ate and what work they did when they were of your age.

• Now think about yourself – your daily activities and daily diet.
• Are these similar or different from what your grandparents did and ate?

Do you know any child who does not get enough to eat in the whole day? What are the reasons for this?

Have you ever seen a godown where a lot of grain has been stored? Where?

Why can you not taste food properly when you have a cold?

If we were to say that “digestion begins in the mouth”, how would you explain this. Write.

How did Aman know that the potato sabzi had got spoilt?

Have you ever seen some food that has got spoilt? How did you know that it was spoiled?

Preeti told Nitu not to eat the potato sabzi. What would have happened if she had eaten it?

Look in your kitchen and write down names of food items that

Look at your friend’s list and discuss in the class.

Will your list be the same in all seasons? What would change?

When food gets spoilt in your house, what do you do with it?

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.

Look at the picture of the bread packet here and guess why Biji returned it?

Look carefully at two-three packets of food items:

What can we know from what is written on the packet?

Look carefully at two-three packets of food items:

When you buy anything from the market, what do you look for on the packet?

The whole class can do this experiment together. Take a piece of bread or roti. Sprinkle a few drops of water on it, and put it in a box. Close the box. See the bread or roti every day until you find some changes on it.

Make this table on chart paper and put it up in the classroom. Fill up the chart every day after discussing the changes seen.

Find out the reason for these changes. From where did the fungus come on the bread?

Different kinds of food items spoil due to different reasons. Some foods spoil soon, some stay good for long. List some seasons and conditions in which food spoils quickly.

Given below are some food items and some simple methods by which these could be kept fresh for 1-2 days. Match the correct pairs:

Why was sugar and jaggery mixed into the mango pulp and dried in the sun?