Class 3 The World Around Us
A year along NCERT's own chapter spine: the plants on the way to school and how to tell one kind from another, the animals living on and under them, what we and they give each other, where the rain goes after it falls, the food on your plate and which part of a plant it was, the habits that keep you well, what the things around you are made of, how a pot and a wall get made, and what to do with what is left over.
Print the whole term as one worksheet pack →Life Around Us
- So many kinds of plantsLesson
Sort the plants around you into trees, shrubs, herbs and grasses, climbers and creepers, using the stem as the thing you look at first.
- The parts of a plantLesson
Name the parts of a plant on a labelled drawing, say which of them sits under the soil, and notice how leaves, bark and fruit differ from one plant to the next.
- Animals living around plantsLesson
Work out which part of a plant an animal is using and what for, and know what soil is made of and who lives in it.
- We need each otherLesson
Say what plants and animals give each other and give us, and tell the help that runs one way from the help that runs the other.
Gifts of Nature
- Water — a precious giftLesson
Follow rainwater from the sky to the tap: where it goes when it lands, how it reaches a home, what it is stored in, and what happens to it afterwards.
- The food we eatLesson
Work out which part of a plant a vegetable is, tell plant foods from animal foods, and say why a plate with many things on it beats a plate with two.
- Staying healthy and happyLesson
Know the habits the chapter builds a day around — brushing, washing, sleep, water and playing outside — and tell a safe place to play from an unsafe one.
Things Around Us
- This world of thingsLesson
Say what the things around you are made of and where the material came from, sort solids from liquids and gases, and tell transparent from translucent from opaque.
- Making thingsLesson
Follow the steps that turn clay into a pot and mud into a brick, know what a kiln and a mould are for, and see where the patterns on made things come from.
- Taking charge of wasteLesson
Sort waste into the green bin and the blue bin and say why each one goes there, and know what reduce, reuse and recycle each mean.