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

Talk to your grandmother or an elderly person. Find out, when they were of your age:

What kind of water arrangements were made for travellers - for example, piau, Mashak (leather bag), or any other? Now, what do people do about water when they travel?

Can we even imagine life without water?

Do you have some special pots for water at your place?

Have you ever seen any beautiful building near the place of water? Where?

Is there a lake, well or stepwell near your house or school? Visit it and find out more about it.

What kinds of buildings are around it?

Is there a lake, well or stepwell near your house or school? Visit it and find out more about it. 

Is the water clean? Is it cleaned regularly?

Is there a lake, well or stepwell near your house or school? Visit it and find out more about it.

Who all use the water?

Is there a lake, well or stepwell near your house or school? Visit it and find out more about it.

Is there any festival celebrated at this place?

Is there a lake, well or stepwell near your house or school? Visit it and find out more about it.

Is there any water today, or is it dry?

There are two old wells in the area where Punita lives. Her grandmother says that about fifteen-twenty years ago there was water in these wells. The wells could have dried up because:

• Water is being pumped up from under the ground, with the help of electric motors.
• The lakes in which rainwater used to collect are no longer there.
• The soil around trees and parks is now covered with cement.
• Is there some other reason for this? Explain.

Everyone has the right to live. Yet, is everybody getting enough water to live or even water to drink? Why is it that some people have to buy drinking water? Should it be like this? Water on this earth is for one and all. Some people draw out water from the ground by deep bore wells. How far is it correct? Have you ever seen this? Why do some people put a pump directly in the Jal Board pipeline? What problems would other people face due to this? Do you have any such experience?

From which office has this bill come? 

Do you get a water bill at home? Find out from where it is sent?

Why do you think Dilli Sarkar (Government of Delhi) is written under Delhi Jal Board?

In whose name is the bill? How much money do they have to pay for each month?

Do you have to pay for water? How much? Is the rate of water different in different colonies? Ask your elders.

Have you ever read this kind of news in any newspaper? How did people solve their problem of water? Did they repair and reuse any old lake or stepwell?

Bring a water bill, look at it and tell –

This bill is from ______ date to ______ date. 

Ayesha put a puffed puri in a bowl of water. Would it sink or float?

You put a steel plate on water. Would it sink or float? What would happen to a spoon?