Water O’ Water!


❉ Do you know any poem or song on water? Recite it in

the class.

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❉ Which are the places mentioned in the poem where

we find water?

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❉ Tick (✓) the activities for which water is needed.

       to play⬜                       to sing⬜             to row a boat⬜  

      to write⬜                      to make tea⬜           to knead dough⬜  

to run a fan⬜             to paint pictures⬜            to grow plants⬜  

❉ Name any four activities which

♦ you can do without water.

____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

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♦ you cannot do without water.

____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

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❉ Water — more or less

Arrange the following on the basis of the amount of water

that is needed for each of the activities. Begin with the

activity that needs the most water.

Activities: to bathe, to drink, to clean the house, to water

the fields, to knead the dough.

1. ____________ 2. ____________ 3. ____________

4. ____________ 5. 

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❉ Water – from where?

In the poem you read about rivers, waterfalls, lakes and

springs. We get water from all these places. From where

do you get water? Put a 〇 around those places that are

either in your house or around it.

lake, well, tubewell, pond, waterfall, hand pump,

river, stream, tap, tank (tanka), sea, hot water spring

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Have you seen hot water coming out of the ground?

Where?

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❉ Does any river flow through your village or city ? If

yes, write its name. _________________________

❉ Do you know the names of any rivers? Write their

names.

___________________________________________

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❉ At home, where do you get drinking water from?

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❉ Do you have to go far to get water? How much time

does it take to bring the water?

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❉ Do your neighbours bring water from the same place?

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❉ Why do we need to store water ?

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❉ Who fetches and stores water in your house?

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❉ Are there certain people who are not allowed to take

water from there ?

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❉ Colour the pictures of those containers which you

use for storing water.

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❉ In your notebook draw pictures of any other

containers which are used for storing water in your

house. Write their names as well.

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Take a look at the pictures. If we fill them with water –

1. Which will contain the least water?

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2. Which will contain the most water?

How could you tell?

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Chhutki is

confused!

Hiren and Chhutki were feeling

very thirsty. Their uncle gave

both of them mango panna in

steel tumblers. But Chhutki

wanted the drink only in a glass

tumbler. Her uncle poured the

panna into a glass tumbler. But

Chhutki was not happy. She

complained –Uncle, you have

given me less panna.

What do you feel? Did

Chhutki’s glass tumbler have

less panna?

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Given in the grid are some places where water is found.

Find seven of them and put a 〇 around each. One has

already been done for you.


In every row put a 〇 around one that is different from

the others. Also tell how it is different.

♦ River, mountain, lake, pond, spring.

♦ Bathing, washing clothes, swimming, combing hair,

kneading dough.

♦ Fish, duck, monkey, crocodile, tortoise.

♦ Car, boat, bus, train, bicycle


Colour By : Himashree Bora.