HURDCO International School Subject:Science, Grade:I, Teacher: Ms.Nadia Tabassum Nishi Topic: Plant Life, Subtopic: Uses of Plants Key points: + parts of the plant that we eat: roots, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds , spices, * other food, « fibres, » medicines, * perfumes and dyes, * paper, rubber and gum, * wooden products Revision + Plants are useful to us in many ways. Q. What do the plants give us? Answer: Plants give us oxygen, food, medicines, rubber, gum, fibres, oils, perfumes, wood etc. Q. From where do we get most of our food? Answer: We get most of our food from plants. oo] rk, ant *We eat different parts of the plant, *We eat roots, stem, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds. sroots: We eat the roots of some plants. Examples are: carrot, radish, beet etc. stem: sugarcane, potato etc+ leaves: spinach, coriander ete * flowers: cauliflower, broccoli ete * fruits: orange, apple, mango ete * seeds: wheat, rice, corn, chickpeas, nut etc Q. From where do we get oi Answer: We get oil from seeds. Q. Which part of potato do we eat? Answer: We eat the stem of potato. Q. Which part of radish do we eat? Answer: We eat the roots of Roots as vegetables radish » ° « Beetroot Radish Carrot Turnip Stems: Potato and ginger are some of the stems that we] Spinach, lettuce and cabbage are some of the eat as vegetables. leaves that we eat as vegetables. Stems as vegetables a Leaves as food Some of the fruits that we eat are orange, mango, apple, grapes, etc. a e@ 4 Sheu = as ga Fruits keep us healthy and strong. We should eat plenty of fruits daily. Growing children should eat plenty of seasonal fruits.Pulses are the seeds ‘ . e 4 Bean Kidney bean Gram Peas Cereals: We get cereals from plants. Cereals are the grains that can be eaten. Rice, wheat, maize, barley and jowar are some of the cereals that we eat. Cereals are the grains Wheat Maize BarleyWe get spices, tea, coffee, chocolate, sugar, fibres, medicines, perfumes and dyes from plants. spices: turmeric, black pepper, cardamon, clove ete tea: tea leaves coffee: coffee seeds chocolate: cacao seeds sugar: sugarcane plant Spices: Plants also give us spices. splces yA SP ai * at Cinnamon Cardamom Clove Coffee, tea and sugar #3 Coffee plant Tea plant ‘Sugarcane Oil giving plants tiuy Castor Sunflower Mustard Coconut + oil: sunflower, mustard, castor + fibres: cotton-cloth, jule-rope, coconut- bag ete* dyes: henna Q. From where do we get rubber? Answer: We get rubber from the juice of rubber trees.Q. How is rubber used for? Answer: Rubber is used for making eraser, tyres, pipes, mats, sandals etc Rubber plant gives us eraser and tyres Eraser Tyre Rubber-plant Q. From where do we get wood? Answer: We get wood from plants. * Q. Why do we use wood? + Answer: We use wood for making houses, furniture, pencils, boats, boxes, carts, bats, musical instruments and many other things. Q. From where do we get paper? Answer: We get paper from wood. Q. Name two plants from which we make paper. Answer: Bamboo and sugarcaneMake paper for writing and printing purposes f Bamboo —_ Eucalyptus PaperHURDCO International School Subject:Science, Grade:I, Teacher: Ms.Nadia Tabassum Nishi W/S-2 Topic: Plant Life, Subtopic: Uses of Plants Objective questions: 1. Fill in the blanks: (a) Plants give us gas. (b) Plants give us uch as cotton and jute (c) We get chocolate from seeds (d) We eat different parts of the 2. True/False: (a) Plants are useful to us in many ways. ( ) (b) Mint is used to treat cough and cold.(— +) (c) We get spices from plants. ( ) (d) We get coffee from coffee leaves. ( ) (c) We should cut tress. ( ) Answers the following questions in one wor (a) From where do we get most of our food? (b) From where do we get oil? (c) Which part of potato do we eat? (d) Which part of radish do we eat? (c) Name one plant from which we make paper. 4. Answers the following questions in short: (a) How are neem plants used? (b) From where do we get rubber? (c) How is rubber used for? (d) From where do we get wood? (e) Why do we use wood? (f) How do the plants help us?Answers: 1. (a) oxygen, (b) fibres, (c) cacao/cocoa, (d) plants 2. (a) True, (b) False, (c) True, (d) False, (e) False 3. Answers the following questions in one word: (a) Plants (b) Seeds (c) Stem (d) Roots (e) Bamboo 4.Answers the following questions in short: (a) Answer: Plants like neem are used in some toothpastes and soaps. Neem plants also help in killing germs. (b) Answer: We get rubber from the juice of rubber tree. (c) Answer: Rubber is used for making eraser, tyres, pipes, mats, sandals etc (d) Answer: We get wood from plants. (e) Answer: We use wood for making houses, furniture, pencils, boats, boxes, carts, bats, musical instruments and many other things. (f) Answer: Plants help in giving us shade and keep our surroundings cool. Plants also help us to get rain.Diary (5 mins): CW: Revision is done on “Uses of Plants” pg# (18-23) H.W: Read the subtopic :Uses of Plants, pg#(18-23). Learn the objective questions from the book, pg# (24-25)