Taking Charge of Waste Class 3 Questions and Answers Solutions
EVS Class 3 Chapter 12 Taking Charge of Waste Question Answer
Discuss (Page 150)
Question 1.
What are the children and the teacher doing in the picture?
Answer:
Children are cleaning the park. They collect waste and put them in the right dustbin.
Question 2.
Why are they cleaning the park?
Answer:
They are cleaning the park to keep the surroundings healthy and hygienic.
Question 3.
Have you ever seen piles of waste lying around your home or school?
Answer:
Yes, I have seen piles of waste around my home.
Question 4.
Have you ever thought about how this waste is created?
Answer:
Yes, when I see the pile of garbage, I wonder who creates so much garbage.
Activity-1 (Page 150)
Recall different activities that you and your elders do during the day. How do these activities create waste? Finally, what do we do with the waste? Share your findings with your classmates.
Answer:
They were emptying a milk packet, removing a new soap from the wrappers, sharpening pencils, and peeling off vegetables. Unwrapping of gifts and buying vegetables. All these activities create waste like empty packets, peels, wrappers, and polythenes. We throw all the waste in the dustbin.
How is Waste Created? (Page 151)
Question 1.
How do you feel about it?
Answer:
I feel bad about it.
Question 2.
Do you think we can do something about it?
Answer:
Yes, I think we can do a lot of things to keep our surroundings clean.
Activity-2 (Page 152)
Observe your surroundings.
Answer:
Do yourself.
Discuss (Page 152)
Question 1.
How clean are the surroundings of your school?
Answer:
The surroundings of my school are almost clean.
Question 2.
Do you find waste lying in or outside your classrooms or on the school grounds?
Answer:
Sometimes I find some waste lying in the playground.
Draw (Page 153)
Draw or paste a picture of a locality. Identify the places where there is garbage or wastewater or smoke by circling them in red. Try to find out how the waste gets there.
Answer:
Reduce (Page 153)
Question 1.
Have you ever tried doing this?
Answer:
Yes, I have used cloth bags to reduce waste.
Activity-3 (Page 153)
How can you help in reducing waste?
Answer:
We can help in reducing waste in many ways like don’t sharpen pencils unnecessarily, don’t tear paper, don’t buying too much-packaged food, and other things.
Activity-4 (Page 155)
How can you REUSE things to reduce waste?
Answer:
Make new things using old newspapers.
Activity-5 (Page 156)
Create an item using waste material that you can give as a gift to someone.
Answer:
Pen-pencil holder:
- Take an empty tin can like a food can or cold drink can wash and dry it.
- Stick the old shiny paper that was removed from the gift all around it.
- Decorate it with some shining stars or other things.
- Pen-pencil holder is ready to use.
Find Out (Page 157)
Question 1.
Ask your elders, if there is any village, town, or city that they know about, which is known for its cleanliness. You can share the information you learn from your elders in your class.
Answer:
- Indore and Mysuru cities are known for their cleanliness.
- Silluk in Arunachal Pradesh village are known for their cleanliness.
Question 2.
Find out from your parents or teachers about the Swachh Bharat Mission.
Answer:
Swachh Bharat Mission is a nationwide campaign initiated by the government of India to clean up the streets, roads, and public places of cities, towns, and villages.
Activity-6 (Page 159)
Separate Your Waste
Two dustbins are drawn below. Write the names of the waste material that will go into each of them.
Answer:
Write (Page 160)
Question 1.
List the things that you can do to keep your home and classroom clean.
I can keep my room tidy.
Answer:
- By putting toys in the proper place after playing.
- By keeping books and notebooks in the cupboard after studying.
- I keep my classroom clean by not throwing and tearing the papers and by throwing peels of pencils in the dustbin.
Question 2.
Make a list of tools you have seen being used in your school or neighborhood for cleaning.
Answer:
- Broom
- Wiper
- Duster
- Dustpan
- Dustbin
- Vacuum Cleaner
- Mop and Bucket
- Scrub Brush
Question 3.
Have you ever observed the tools that are used in your home for cleaning? Make a list of these tools.
Answer:
Tools used in home for cleaning Broom, duster, dustbin, dustpan, scrub brush, wiper, mop, and bucket.
Draw (Page 160)
Draw pictures of these tools in the box given below.
Answer:
Let us Reflect (Page 161)
A. Discuss
Question 1.
How is waste created?
Answer:
Daily activities create some waste, but carelessness and buying too many things create even more waste.
Question 2.
How can we manage waste?
Answer:
We can manage waste in three ways:
- Reduce the amount of waste.
- Reuse the used things.
- Recycle the waste.
B. Write
Question 1.
To avoid the use of plastic bags and bottles, look at your home and school closely. List all the items of plastic material and write how these could be replaced by other safe materials.
Answer:
List of plastic materials and their replacement by safe materials:
- Plastic bags: Cloth bags or jute bags.
- Plastic water bottles: Lightweight metal bottles.
- Plastic containers: Glass containers or steel containers.
- Plastic straws: Paper straws.
- Plastic pencil box: Wooden or metal box.
- Plastic tiffin box: Steel tiffin box.
Question 2.
Name three things in your school and home that you would put in the green dustbin and three things that you would put in the blue dustbin.
Answer:
- Green dustbin: Fruit peels, garden waste, leftover food waste.
- Blue dustbin: Paper, metal cans, glass bottles, or jars.
C. Draw in your Notebook
Question 1.
Make a poster to show a village or town that is managing its waste well. Give your poster a suitable title.
Answer:
D. Enact in Pairs
You can be a clean town and your partner a dirty town. Engage in a short conversation talking about how you feel about being the way you are.
Answer:
- Clean Town: I feel so happy and proud of how clean and beautiful I am. People take care of me and make sure to throw away trash properly.
- Dirty Town: I wish I could feel that way too. Nobody cares about me. There is trash everywhere and it makes me feel sad and neglected.
- Clean Town: Aww, Don’t be sad. You can change if people work together to clean you up and take care of you.
E. Think, Reflect, and Share
Question 1.
Imagine you are having a birthday party at your home. What are some of how you can try to have a zero-waste birthday party? For this, first think about what kind of waste may be created at the birthday party and how you can avoid or reduce it.
Answer:
Some ways to have a zero-waste birthday party:
- Use your homemade treats instead of buying packaged ones.
- Use reusable decorations like balloons, streamers, and banners.
- Use reusable plates, cups, and utensils instead of disposable ones.
- Ask, friends don’t wrap the gift with a plastic sheet.
Question 2.
Have you seen waste in nature? What do you think happens to the waste of animals, dried leaves, and so on in a forest?
Answer:
- I have seen waste in nature like dried leaves, broken branches, etc.
- In a forest waste of animals, dried leaves, etc. are converted into manure which is good for soil.