Chapter:5 | Food Keeps us Fit and Healthy | Class 3 | EVS | Textbook solutions

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Here are the answers to “Improve Your Learning” for the lesson “Food Keeps Us Fit and Healthy”💪

I. Conceptual Understanding

1. What will happen if we do not eat food?

• If we do not eat food, we will feel tired, weak, and unable to work, play, or grow. Food provides the energy we need to stay alive and healthy.

2. Name the food items that can be eaten raw.

• Carrot, cucumber, onion, tomato.

3. What is the importance of food?

• Food gives us energy to work, play, and grow. It helps in maintaining good health and keeps us alive.

II. Questioning

4. What questions would you ask your mother to prepare Pulihora?

• What ingredients are needed to prepare Pulihora?

• How do you mix the tamarind paste with rice?

• How long should the rice be cooked?

III. Experiments and Field Observations

5. What do you observe after soaking greengram overnight?

• After soaking greengram overnight in a wet cloth, tiny sprouts start to grow from the seeds. This shows the seeds are alive and can germinate.

IV. Information Skills, Projects

6. Prepare a list of food you get from plants and animals in your area.

• From Plants: Rice, wheat, vegetables (brinjal, tomato), fruits (mango, apple), pulses (red gram, black gram).

• From Animals: Milk, eggs, meat, honey.

V. Drawing Pictures and Model Making

7. Draw your favourite fruits and vegetables.

(Students can draw their favorite fruits like mango, apple, and vegetables like carrot, brinjal.)

VI. Appreciation

8. What good food habits would you suggest to your friends?

• Wash hands before and after eating.

• Chew food well and eat slowly.

• Avoid wasting food.

• Eat a variety of fruits and vegetables.

9. Write two slogans on avoiding wastage of food.

• “Save food, save lives!”

• “Don’t waste food; share it with those in need.”