CHAPTER -6 Class 3 EVS Foods we eat

1. Did all the children in the class eat the same food items yesterday? Why?
Ans. No, because different children in the class belong to different regions.
2. You must have noticed that in there is one child in whose house no food was cooked.
What could be the reason.
Ans. There could be many reasons like:
(a) Mother might have gone outside the house.(b) The children may belong to a poor family.

3. Has it ever happened to you that on some day you were very hungry but there was
nothing to eat? If yes, why?
Ans. Yes, one day there was nothing to eat in the house. On that day mother went for some
important meeting.
4. How do you know that you are hungry?
Ans. When we feel that the stomach is empty, we know that we are hungry.
5. How do you feel when you are hungry?
Ans. When we are hungry then we feel like eating something.
6. Why was Dadi not able to climb the stairs quickly?
Ans. Dadi was not able to climb the stairs quickly due to her old age.
7. How does Dadi like to have her dal?
Ans. Dadi likes to have sugar in her dal.
8. How many persons in the story can eat bhutta easily and why?
Ans. In the story mother, mami, and Vipul can eat bhutta. Mother, mami and Vipul are young
and have healthy teeth.
9. Can all old people eat bhutta? Why?
Ans. No, all old people cannot eat bhutta as they do not have healthy teeth.
10. For four months Chhutki will have only her mother’s milk. That is only her food. Why?
Ans. Four months Chhutki will have only her mother’s milk because she had no teeth.
11. Ask your elders and fill in the table.
Ans.
What can they eat What can they not eat

Child Milk, pulses, porridge Chappati, hard fruits, nuts

Young Chappati, vegetables, nuts, fruits They can eat everything

Old Chappati, soaked in dal, rice Hard fruits, dry fruits

12. Find out where each of these things is eaten more.

Ans. Rice- Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Kerela etc.
Wheat – Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh
Maize – Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Maharashtra.
Millets – Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab
13. Name of some things are given below. Put on the things that can be eaten. If there is
anything about which you are not sure ask your teacher.
Ans. Banana flowers, Hen’s eggs, Cauliflower, Drumstick flowers, Leaves of Arvi, Meat,
Mushroom, Kalonji, Lotus stem, Fish, Frogs, Leftover chapatti, Amla, Coconut oil, Camel’s milk,
Chappati made of Bajra and Chappati made of Gram.
CHAPTER -7 Class 3 EVS Saying without speaking
1. How did you like this game?
Ans. Yes.
2. Did you find it difficult to act without speaking?
Ans. Yes.
3. Have you ever seen anyone talking through actions?
Ans. Yes.
4. When do people need to talk this?
Ans. When people cannot talk or hear then they need to talk like this.
5. This is Aftaab. His favourite toy has fallen down and broken. He is sad. How will his
face look?
Ans.
6. This is Julie. Her little sister was born just yesterday. She is very excited. How will her
face look.
Ans.
7. This is Yamini’s mother. Today, while Yamini was taking out the bottle of pickle from
the kitchen it fell from her hand and broke. Draw the look on the mother’s face.
Ans.
8. This is Rehana. She is afraid of dogs. While playing, suddenly a dog came in front of
her. How will Rehana’s face look?
Ans.
9. Has it ever happened that you have had done some mischief and your mother found
out just by looking at your face?
Ans. Yes.
10. Look at the picture in the textbooks at page 49 and make a story of your own. Tell
the story to your friends.
Ans. A squirrel lived on a tree. One day she gathered some dal and rice and cooked khichdi.
She invited all her friends for lunch. Crow, cuckoo, rat, ants all come to eat the khichadi. The
squirrel lived happily afterwards.
CHAPTER -8 Class 3 EVS Flying High
1. Ans. Peacock.,2. Ans. Eagle.3. Ans. Parrot.4. Ans. Beak, Crow is my name.
5. Ans. Cuckoo.6. Ans. Sky.7. Ans. Humming.
8. Which of the birds mentioned in the lessons have you seen? Write their names.
Ans. Peacock, Eagle, Crow, Parrot, Owl, Vulture, Pigeon, Woodpecker.
9. Have you ever noticed that different birds have different types of beaks? Given here
are pictures of beaks of birds. Look at them carefully. Identify the birds and write their

names.Ans.
10. There are some birds which can imitate our voice. Do you know the name of any such
bird? Draw its picture in your notebook, colour it and write its name.
Ans. Parrots can imitate our voice.
11. Other than birds, which are the other animals that can fly?
Ans. Butterfly, Honeybee and Housefly.
12. If you could fly like a bird where would you like to go? What else would you do?
Ans. I would like to go to all beautiful place, I would pick fruits from large trees.
13. What would happen if birds could not fly but only walk on their feet?
Ans. If birds could not fly, they would not be able to save themselves from other animals. It
would then become easy to catch the birds.
CHAPTER -9 Class 3 EVS Its Raining
1. How did Appu know that the banana trees needed water?
Ans. Banana trees were drooping. This made Appu know that banana trees needed water.
2. From where do the plants growing around your house get water?
Ans. The plants growing around my house get water from rain.
3. Appu drank water from the river till he was happy. Have you seen animals drinking
water?
Ans. Yes, I have seen animals drinking water in the following places.
(1) Pond, (2) Waterfall, (3) Drain.

4. Have you ever given water to any animal? If yes, which animal?
Ans. Yes, I gave water to a cow and a dog.
5. Some animals are not given water by anyone. From where do they drink water?
Ans. They can drank water from drains, ponds, rivers etc.
6. The poet saw many things in the clouds. Have you ever seen anything in the clouds?
What?
(a) What all do the clouds do?
Ans. Clouds takes shapes of many animals like dog, cow, elephant etc. and run here and there
in the sky.
(b) Have you ever seen a rainbow? When can you see a rainbow?
Ans. Yes, we can see the rainbow after the rain.
(c) How do you feel when it rains?
Ans. We feel happy, when it rains.
(d) Apart from clouds, what do you see when it rains?
Ans. We can see lighting and rainbow when it rains.
(e) What happens when it rains?
Ans. When it rains:
(i) Surroundings becomes green
(ii) Peacock start dancing
(iii) Everyone becomes happy.
CHAPTER -10 Class 3 EVS What is cooking
1. Look at the pictures given in the textbook on page 61. Colour the spaces which have
dots in them. What do you see.

Ans. Students fill the colours themselves. I can see utensils used for cooking.

2. What are utensils made of?

Ans. Steel, Iron, Copper, Glass, Bronze, Earth (Earthern pots)
3. Ask some elderly people what kind of utensils were used earlier. What were they made
of?
Ans. In earlier times utensils made up of copper and bronze were used. The utensils were very
large in size.
4. We do not cook all the things we eat. Find out which things we eat raw and which ones
we cook before eating. Which are the things we eat both cooked and raw? Fill in the
table.
Ans.
 Things that are Things that are Things that are eaten bo
Eaten raw Eaten cooked cooked

Tomato Dal Carrot

Carrot Rice Tomato

Radish Chappati Black gram

Cabbage Potato Radish

Onion Brinjal Cabbage

5. Go to the kitchen and observe something being cooked. What all was done to cook it?
Write the sequence. Don’t forget to write the name of the item being cooked. Look at
the notebook. Look at the notebook of your classmates and discuss in group.
Ans. Name of the item: Tea (Two cups)
1. Boil half cup water in a bowl.
2. Add two spoons sugar.
3. Add one spoon tea leaves.
4. Add half cup milk on boiling.
5. Turn the gas off on boiling.
6. Put the tea in cups with the help of sieve.
6. Given below are different methods of cooking. Write the names of two things cooked
by each of these methods. Add some more methods of cooking to the list and give
examples too.
Ans.
Methods of cooking Name of things

Roasting Sweet potato Corn

Boiling Potato Rice

Frying Poori Kachaudi

Baking Chappati Dosa

Steaming Idli Dhokla

7. What is used to cook food in your house? Draw a picture in the notebook and write its
name.
8. Which are the other things you can prepare without cooking? Write their names and
the method of preparing them. One example is given below.
Ans. (i) Lemon water:
Mix sugar in water – Add Lemon juice – Stain it – Lemon water is ready.

(ii) Chutney:
Cut coriander and green chillies – Wash them and grind in the mixer – Add salt – Chutney is
ready

(iii) Lassi:
Mash curd with the help of a masher – Add sugar – Add ice – Lassi is ready.

CHAPTER -11 Class 3 EVS From here to there

1. Have you ever travelled in a train? When?
Ans. Yes, I travelled in a train when I go to my grandfather house.
2. Can a train move anywhere? Why?
Ans. No, a train can move only on the iron roads.
3. What is meant by ‘roads of iron’?
Ans. Roads of iron mean railways tracks.
4. What places did the train pass by? Make a list.
Ans. Meadows, Hills, Temples, Mills, Village wells, Potato field.
5. Which all vehicles did the children travel in.
Ans. Bus, train, car, boat, horse, cycle, rickshaw, oxen cart, aeroplane, metro train.
6. Write in front of each picture what the vehicles is used for. In the spaces provided,
draw the pictures of some other vehicles. Write their names and what they used for. Are
all these vehicles used for our travel?

Ans.
Hand cart is used by various fruit and vegetable sellers to carry fruits vegetables and other

articles. `
Mail Van is used to take mail from one place to another.

Cycle for the disabled is used by disable people to move from one place to another.

Tractor is used by farmers for tilling the field.

Double Decker Bus is used to carry passengers from one place to another.

Ambulance is used to take patients to the hospitals.

School Bus it carries children from home to school and from school to home.

7. Name of some vehicles are given in the centre of a wheel. Join these on one side to
the number of wheels each vehicle has end on the other, join them to what is used to run
them.
Ans.
Vehicle No. of vehicle Driven by

Bus Four or more than four Petrol/Diesel

Bullock cart Two Animals

Cart Four Humans

 Scooter Two Petrol

Rickshaw Three Humans

Car Four Petrol

Metro rail More than four Electricity

Train More than four Electricity

Boat None Humans

Truck Four Diesel

Bicycle Two Humans

Motorcycle Two Petrol

8. Find out from our elders- How did people travel fifty years ago? Were the present
means of travel available at that time also?
Ans. Fifty years ago people travel by bus, bullock cart, train, rickshaw, Cycle, etc. No. Present
means of travel (like aeroplane, metro rail etc.) were not available at that time.
9. If anybody make a “chhuk-chhuk” sound you know at once that it is being made for a
train. From the sounds given below can you tell which vehicle it is? One example is given.
Ans. Chhuk – Chhuk – Train
Peen – peen – Scooter

Pon – Pon – Truck

Tup – Tup – Horse Cart

Gharr-Gharr – Motorcycle

Tring-Tring – Bicycle

10. These are the sounds of single vehicles. How does it sound when many vehicles run
together on the road making different noises? Isn’t there a lot of noise?
Ans. All the sounds get mixed and it creates a lot of noise.
11. Where have you heard the maximum noise?
Ans. In the airport.
12. Do you like so much noise? Why?
Ans. No, because it causes pain in ears.
13. What all can you see in the picture?
Ans. We can see the flames and smoke emitting from building. We can also see the fire-brigade
men working to control the fire. We can also see the ambulance and the police van.
14. Which vehicles can you see in the picture.
Ans. An ambulance, a police van, fire brigade van.
15. What are these vehicles doing?
Ans. Fire brigade men are trying to control the fire. Ambulance is taking patients to the
hospital.
CHAPTER -12 Class 3 EVS Work we do
1. Look carefully at the picture and write what work is being done by different people.

Ans. (i) A woman is sweeping outside the Post office.

(ii) Labourers are making a building.
(iii) People are travelling by car and scooters.
(iv) Children are running.
(v) Barber and shoe-maker are waiting for customers.
(vi) A boy is taking tea for customer.
(vii) A woman is walking towards Post Office.
(viii) Children are playing under the tree.
2. What kind of work do people in your neighbourhood do? Name any five. What are
these workers called?
Ans.
Work What they are called

Repair cars and scooters Mechanic

Treating patients Doctor

Selling fruits Fruit Seller

Cooking food Cook

Selling items in a shop Shopkeeper

Building a home Labourer

3. Write the names of any five buildings and work done in them.
Ans.
Name of the building Work done

Treatment of patients
Hospital
Vaccination of children

School Children study

Bank Deposit and withdrawal of money

Post office We get postcards and postage stamps

Hotel Visitors stay and eat

4. In the picture you saw people work together to build a new building. School is also
one such place where people work. Where what work is done in the school.
 Ans. (i) Children study.,(ii) Morning prayer,(iii) Children play,(iv) Monthly and yearly
examination,(v) Dancing and singing competitions,(vi) Annual festivals
5. Are there any children in the picture who are not going to school? What are they
doing?
Ans. (i) One child is taking tea for the customers in the hotel.
(ii) Children of the labourers are playing under the tree.

6. What works does Deepali do in her own house?

Ans. (i) Cleaning house,(ii) Takes her brother and sister to school,(iii) Washing utensils
(iv) Helps her mother in her work,(v) Listening radio,(vi) Cooks food
7. Besides household work do you any other work at home? If yes, what?
Ans. No.
8. Given below are some daily activities. Show on the face of the clocks, at what time of
the day you do them?

Ans.
9. Which of your family members do household work? What work do they do?
Ans.
Family Members Work they do

Mother Cooks food

Sister Helps mother in household works

Brother Brings vegetables etc. from market

Father Goes to office to earn money

10. Which of your family members work to earn money?

Ans. Fathers.
11. Which of your family members do work but do not get money for it?
Ans. Mother cooks food, cleans house and sister helps her in doing so. Both of them do not
get money for it.
12. Find out form your grandparents what work they did when they were children.
Ans. When my grandmother was a child she used to do the following:
(i) Cooking foods,(ii) Collecting cowdung and making cowdung cake.
(iii) Collecting wood from jungle.(iv) Grazing cows.
13. Talk to any two children and find out why do not go to school?
Names of the first child Sangeeta

Reason for not going to school Ma went to work and she has to take care of younger sister.

Name of the second child Sanjeev

Reasons for not going to school Has to work with his father to earn money.