HURDCO International School

Subject:Science, Grade:I, Teacher: Ms.Nadia Tabassum Nishi

Topic: Plant Life,
Subtopic: Uses of Plants

Key points: • spices, • other food, • fibres, • medicines, • perfumes

and dyes, • paper, rubber and gum, • wooden products

Discussion:
• Plants are useful to us in many ways.
• We get spices, tea, coffee, chocolate, sugar, fibres, medicines,
perfumes and dyes from plants.
• spices: turmeric, black pepper, cardamon, clove etc
• tea: tea leaves
• coffee: coffee seeds
• chocolate: cacao seeds
• sugar: sugarcane plant
• oil: sunflower, mustard, castor
• fibres: cotton-cloth, jute-rope, coconut- bag etc

• medicines: mint, basil, neem etc.

• Q. How are neem plants used?
• Answer: Plants like neem are used in some toothpastes and soaps.
Neem plants also help in killing germs.
• perfumes: perfume-rose, jasmine etc
• dyes: henna

Q. From where do we get rubber?

Answer: We get rubber from the juice of rubber trees.
Q. How is a rubber used for?
Answer: Rubber is a used for making eraser, tyres, pipes, mats,
sandals etc

Q. Name two plants from which we make paper.

Answer: bamboo and sugarcane
Q. From where do we get paper?
Answer: We get paper from wood.
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.
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