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Class 5 The World Around Us — Our school — a happy place

Say what makes a school a green school, sort its waste and its fire-drill rules the right way, and explain how shade, a white roof and a mended tap change the place you spend your day in.

Name: ________________________

  1. 1.Besides shade, what else does the chapter say the trees on a school campus do?

    • a) Draw water out of the ground so the field stays dry
    • b) Stop the wind from reaching the classrooms
    • c) Make the soil harder so the playground stays flat
    • d) Keep the air clean, feed birds and insects, and cool the surroundings

  2. 2.The class wants the school to make less waste in the first place. What does the chapter say does that?

    • a) Putting a bigger dustbin in each classroom
    • b) Buying larger packets so there are fewer wrappers to count
    • c) Using what we need, reusing things and not throwing away useful items
    • d) Burning the waste at the end of each day on the school grounds

  3. 3.Match each School Explorer team to what it went round the school to look at.

    • Water Watchers
    • Electricity Savers
    • Waste Warriors
    • Green Guardians
    • Traffic Trackers
    • Lights and fans left on
    • Trees, plants and the compost pit
    • Litter and dustbins
    • Leaking taps and wasted water
    • The road outside the school gate

  4. 4.The school is having a fire drill. Sort each of these into what you should do and what you should not.

    Groups: What to do · What not to do

    • Move quickly and calmly to the nearest exit route
    • Go to the assembly point and stay with your group
    • Crawl low under smoke with your mouth covered
    • Hide in a bathroom until it is over
    • Go back inside for a forgotten bag
    • Run for the door as fast as you can

  5. 5.Why does the school keep old newspapers out of both the wet and the dry bin?

    • a) They are burnt at the end of each week instead
    • b) They are set aside to be given to the recyclers
    • c) They are kept because paper cannot be thrown away by law
    • d) They go into the wet bin once they have been counted

  6. 6.The chapter gives one main reason why so many accidents happen on the roads. What is it?

    • a) People do not follow the traffic rules correctly
    • b) Drivers cannot see the signboards at night
    • c) Schools let children out at the same time each day
    • d) There are too few roads for the number of vehicles

  7. 7.Match each kind of waste to the colour its box is labelled with in the segregation game.

    • Wet waste
    • Dry waste
    • Blue
    • Green

  8. 8.Aasha's brother describes a green school. Which of these is what he said it does?

    • a) Keeps the school gate shut so no waste can come in from the road
    • b) Paints its walls and gates green and puts plants in each corner
    • c) Grows the food its own canteen serves and sells the rest
    • d) Manages its waste, saves water, uses electricity carefully and plants trees

Answer key — Class 5 The World Around Us — Our school — a happy place

  1. 1. d) Keep the air clean, feed birds and insects, and cool the surroundings
  2. 2. c) Using what we need, reusing things and not throwing away useful items
  3. 3. Water Watchers → Leaking taps and wasted water; Electricity Savers → Lights and fans left on; Waste Warriors → Litter and dustbins; Green Guardians → Trees, plants and the compost pit; Traffic Trackers → The road outside the school gate
  4. 4. Move quickly and calmly to the nearest exit route → What to do; Crawl low under smoke with your mouth covered → What to do; Go to the assembly point and stay with your group → What to do; Run for the door as fast as you can → What not to do; Hide in a bathroom until it is over → What not to do; Go back inside for a forgotten bag → What not to do
  5. 5. b) They are set aside to be given to the recyclers
  6. 6. a) People do not follow the traffic rules correctly
  7. 7. Wet waste → Green; Dry waste → Blue
  8. 8. d) Manages its waste, saves water, uses electricity carefully and plants trees