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

How old was it? How did you know?

What was it made of?

What colour was it?

Were there any special kind of designs on the old building? Draw them in your notebook.

Who used to live there in the olden days?

What kinds of activities took place there?

Do some people still live there?

• What kinds of work are people doing?
• How many men and women are working?
• See, how they are taking the huge pillar up along the slope?
• Is it easier to lift a heavy thing straight up or along a slope?
• Were you able to see the man carrying water in a Mashak (leather bag)?

Sangeeta thinks it is useless to keep old things in a museum. How would you convince her that it is important to have a museum?

Why do you think the chapter is named, ‘Walls Tell Stories’?

What do you think the earth looks like? Make a drawing of the earth in your notebook. On your drawing show where you are. Take a look at your friends’ drawings too.

If the earth is round like a globe, how is it that we do not fall off?

Do the people in Argentina stand upside down?

Can you think why Sunita’s hair was standing?

Look at Sunita’s photographs and the dates written on each of them. Write what all is happening and when?

Close your eyes. Imagine that your class is a spaceship. Zooo...m – in 10 minutes you have entered space. Your spaceship is now going around the earth. Now say:

• Are you able to sit in one place?
• What about your hair?
• Oh, look … where are your bags and books going?
• what is your teacher doing? Where is her chalk?
• How did you eat your food during the break? How did you drink water? What happened to the ball that you threw up?

Can you now say why Sunita’s hair kept standing?

Think why water flows downwards on any slope. On mountains, water flows downwards, not upwards.

Take a 5 rupee coin and a small piece of paper. The paper should be about one-fourth the size of the coin.

• Hold the coin in one hand and the paper in the other. Drop them at the same time. What happened?
• Now place the tiny paper on the coin and drop them. What happened this time? Surprised!

To play this you will need a small stone, a bigger stone (lemon-sized), a thick roll of paper (which can be made with layers of paper), a mouse, and an elephant made of paper.

- Take a string about 2 feet long.

- At one end of the string tie the small stone. Stick or tie the mouse to the stone. - Put the string into the roll of paper.

- At the other end of the string tie the bigger stone and stick the elephant.

- Hold the roll of paper and move your hand to rotate the small stone.

• Who is pulling whom? You will be surprised! The mouse lifts the elephant! How did this magic happen?