Class 4 The World Around Us
A year along NCERT's own chapter spine: the neighbourhood you share and the people who keep it running, how a message and a rupee travel, the beaks and feet that tell you what an animal eats, the plants a village builds and dyes and doctors itself with, what is on a balanced plate and where each grain came from, why one thing spins and another sinks, how paper is made and how waste is cut, and the four landforms of the country under one changing sky.
Print the whole term as one worksheet pack →Our Community
- Living togetherLesson
Say what a community shares and who keeps it running, work out who offered what to mend a park, and place three customs of working together in the states they come from.
- Getting in touchLesson
Put the ways people have sent messages in the order the chapter gives them, follow a letter from postbox to doorstep, and say what a bank, an ATM and a money order each do.
- Finding your way aroundLesson
Read a hand-drawn map the way the chapter draws one, say which way is north on it, and name what a flyover, a hospital and a police station each give the people around them.
Life Around Us
- A walk in the forestLesson
Name what makes four forest animals easy to tell apart, count the parts that make a small creature an insect, and play out how a web of connections falls apart when one strand goes.
- Beaks, claws and finsLesson
Read an animal's body like a set of tools: work out from a beak, a claw, a snout or a foot what its owner eats and where it gets about.
- Growing up with natureLesson
Follow a natural dye from a handful of flowers to a coloured cloth, say how a village builds, stores and doctors itself out of what grows nearby, and match three festivals to the living things they honour.
Health and Well-being
- Food for healthLesson
Sort everyday foods into the three groups the chapter uses, work out how much of each belongs on a plate, and match the six tastes to the things that carry them.
- Happy and healthy livingLesson
Name who and what a grain passes through before it reaches your plate, walk through eating one mouthful mindfully, and say what the chapter asks you to do when a touch feels wrong.
Things Around Us
- How things workLesson
Work out what makes one thing spin and another wobble, run a float-and-sink test properly, and see why the same piece of foil can do both.
- How things are madeLesson
Make a sheet of paper out of an old newspaper in the right order, tell the five Rs of waste management apart, and match a kind of paper to the job its thickness suits it for.
Our Environment
- Different lands, different livesLesson
Tell plains, desert, coast and mountains apart from their plants, houses and weather, and place a dish, a festival or a landmark in the land it belongs to.
- Our skyLesson
Follow the Sun across a day and the Moon across a month, read a shadow for the time of day, and say which festivals are set by a full Moon and which by a dark sky.