Importance of Family

Answer briefly

Q 1: List two qualities that you admire in your father/ mother?

Ans: The two qualities that I admire of my father is
1. Truthfulness
2. Honesty

Q 2: List the qualities that make your mother/ father the most special person in the world?
Ans: My parents praise me whenever I do a good work. They patiently listen to my problem
and give a good advice.

Q 3: Why does praise by family members make you happy?

Ans: The praise from my family members raises our confidence level. We are motivated to do
more and more good work.

Q 4: You have a family member who always criticizes you. How is that person related to you?
Give one reason for his/ her criticism.
Ans: My sister criticizes me the most when I don’t get good marks. She does so because she
wants me to improve my performance.

Q 5: Describe your reactions when your mother/ father check you for your behavior?
Ans: When my father/ mother check me for my behavior, I feel very upset, embarrassed and
shocked.

Answer the following questions:

Q 1: What is the importance of a family?
Ans: A family is important to us as it provides support and care. It teaches us to face
challenges. It helps us to take decisions and to solve problem. It teaches us good values
and traditions.

Q 2: “The family systems work like a chain.” Explain it with an example.

Ans: “The family systems work like a chain.” The elders help the child to grow up into a good
human being. In turn, the children provide support to elders in the time of need.

Q 3: What do you mean by “family traditions”? What is the importance of family traditions in
your life?
Ans: Family traditions are the activity that occur regularly and hold special meaning for those
family members. They help in teaching good values like respect your elders, sharing and
caring.

Q 4: What steps can the family members take to build strong bonds?
Ans: The steps which the family members can take to build strong bonds are:
1. Spending time with each other.
2. Having joy and sorrows.
3. Participating in celebrations.

Q 5: Why it is important to have good communication with your parents?

Ans: It is important to have good communication with your parents as it helps us to
overcome challenges or problems we are facing. Our parents also provide us guidance
which helps us to make better decision.

Fill in the blanks:

1. Family supports help the sufferer to overcome difficulties.
2. All family members must participate in family activities.
3. The love and care for one another is the real strength of a family.
 4. Every member of the family must share the different responsibilities.
5. Each family follows certain customs and traditions.
6. A type of family that includes only parents and their children is a Nuclear family.
7. To develop close bonds among family members we must share love and affection.
8. To motivate the younger members to excel, family should encourage and appreciate.
9. The most important group of human beings is Family.
10. The first learning place of a child is Family.
11.

Write True or false

Sl. No. Description True/ false

Interaction develops strong True
bonds in a family.
The children cannot help the False
elder.
Each family follows same False
customs
Care and appreciation are real True
strengths of a family
Every person has a talent True
Human Migration

Answer briefly:
Q 1: What do you mean by the term ‘Migration’?
Ans: Migration is the systematic (regular) movement of people from one place to another.
Q 2: What is shifting agriculture?
Ans: Man started growing crop on a piece of land till the soil was fertile. Then he would
abandon it and move to a new piece of land. This type of practice of growing crops was known
as shifting agriculture.
Q 3: Name the two types of forced migration?
Ans: The two types of forced migration are:
1. Forced migration due to natural disaster.
2. Forced migration due to man made disaster.
Q 4: Name the river which caused floods in Kashmir in the Year 2014.
Ans: In September 2014, the Kashmir was flooded by heavy rain and overflowing of river
Jhelum.

Q 5: Name two things that changed the orthodox thinking of people.

Ans: The two things that changed the orthodox thinking of people are:
1. Education
2. Contact with other countries

Answer the following questions:

Q 1: Briefly highlight the three types of migration?
Ans: The three types of Migration are:
1. Animal Migration: aa
Q 2: List three hardships that the migrants face?
Ans: aa
Q 3: Migration brings happiness to many people’. Explain with two examples?
Ans: aa
Q 4: Suppose you have to migrate to another city. List two preparations that you will make.
Ans: aa
Q 5: What facilities are needed by people in case of a disaster?
Ans: aa

Variation in shelters

Answer briefly:
Q 1: What are the earliest forms of shelter?
Ans: aa
Q 2: What are the walls of huts made of in villages?
Ans: aa

Q 3: Whay are some houses built with thick walls and flat roots?
Ans: aa
Q 4: Give two advantages of high rise apartnments?
Ans: aa
Q 5: What is the advantage of Neighbourhood Watch Plan?
Ans: aa

Answer the following questions:

Q 1: What information do we get from Bhimbetka rock shelters?

Ans: aa

Q2: List the changes that occurred in the life of man when he became a food producer?>
Ans: aa
Q 3: Give there reasons for regional variation in houses?
Ans: aa
Q 4: What are responsibilities of a good neighbor?
Ans: aa
Q 5: Complete the following table:
Ans:
Sl. No. Landforms Types of Roots Material Used State

Sensitivity towards Others

Answer briefly
Q 1: Which facility in school can make physically challenged children more mobile?
Ans: To make physically challenged children more mobile, the schools should have:
1. Special trained teachers and transport.
2. Suitable environment and infrastructure.
Q 2: Which important qualities do the parents and teachers of physically challenged children
need?
Ans: The parents and teachers of physically challenged children need patience, kindness and
a sympathetic attitude towards the child. The parents should remain in close contact with
teachers.
Q 3: Name one thing that is essential for physically challenged children?
Ans: For their overall development, it is essential that physically challenged children should
be integrating with normal children.
Q 4: What do socially deprived children miss?
Ans: The socially deprived children miss the basic amenities as well as the opportunity of
education or a decent life.
Q 5: What do you do with your old books, clothes and toys?
Ans: I should give my old books, old clothes and toys to the needy children who cannot afford
to buy these things.

Answer the following questions:

Q 1: Who are special children? What can make a difference in their lives?
Ans: Physically challenged children are known as special children.
Special education and training, adaptive devices and therapeutic services, and, love and
affection of the people around can bring a positive change in their lives.
Q 2: Distinguish between the training of physically challenged children in earlier times and
present times?
Ans: In earlier times, people were unaware about the help and training that could make the
lives of physically challenged children happy and comfortable.
In present times, a lot of programs have been made. Progress in the field of science and
technology had made them more mobile and independent.

Q 3: List the areas where physically challenged children require special skills. How are these
skills useful to them?
Ans: The physically challenged children require special skills to eat, read, move around,
express themselves and use the toilet.
These skills make them confident and less dependent on other people.
Q 4: What is Inclusive Education? How does it benefit other students?
Ans: According to experts, physically challenged children must be integrated with normal
children. This is known as Inclusive Education. It automatically enhances their learning abilities
and overcomes hurdles like shyness and hesitation when they join normal schools.
Inclusive education also benefits other students. They not only develop a understanding of
needs of special children but also develop a caring and sympathetic attitude towards them.
Q 5: Who are socially deprived children? Where can you commonly find them?
Ans: Socially deprived children are the children who are deprived of the right to live s decent
life. They spend their lives either on the streets or in the slums. They do not have the
opportunity of education or a life of dignity.

Q 6: What steps should be taken to improve the condition of socially deprived children?
Ans:
Q 7: Do you think socially deprived children should be given money? Give two reasons in
support to your answer.
Ans:

Fill in the blanks:

1. A little care and love can make a great difference in the lives of physically challenged
and socially deprived children.
2. Specially trained teachers and therapists provide guidance to special children.
3. Physically challenged children face difficulties in forming relationships.
4. Our constitution has special provisions to ensure that each and every child get
education.
5. Inclusive education also benefits all students.
6. Special skills can make the physically challenged children confident.
7. Children’s with physically challenges have difficulty in forming relationships with others
due to physical limitations.
8. Physically challenged children should be given education which is Inclusive.
 9. The condition of socially deprived children can be improved through education.
10.

Community Services

Q 1: What is community service?

Ans: Community service is the help or assistance that benefits the community. It may be
assisting the elderly, participating in neighbourhood watch programme, beautification of
locality, etc…

Q 2: What type of community service can you volunteer for?

Ans: I can volunteer for participating in neighbourhood watch programmes.

Q 3: What is the importance of Van Mahotsav?

Ans: Van Mahotsav is celebrated to create awareness about the importance of trees. It
encourages us to plant more and more trees.
Q4: How do trees clean the atmosphere?
Ans: Trees clean the atmosphere by converting carbon di-oxide into oxygen.

Q 5: Name two qualities for community living?

Ans: Two qualities for community living are:
1. Organisation and Co-ordination
2. Tolerance

Answer the following question:

Q 1: How did community service plays an important role in olden times?
Ans: Community service has always been an important part of Indian history and culture.
People help the poor with money, clothes, food, shelter or looked after the sick. In earlier
times, the King/ Emperor took up many projects for the benefits of the common people like
helping the travellers, planting trees, digging wells, etc…

Q 2: Mention the steps that Ashoka took for the development of trade?
Ans: The steps taken by Ashoka for the development of trade are:
1. Construction of good roads for the progress of trade as well as the pilgrims.
2. Build Dharamshalas and sarais for the travellers.
3. Dug wells and planted trees on the road sides for their comfort.

Q 3: What do you mean by water harvesting? What are its advantages?

Ans: Water harvesting is the technique of collecting, storing and using rain water for
irrigation, drinking and for other purposes.

It saves rain water from getting drained and wasted. It saves the problem of water scarcity.

Q 4: List the changes that have improved the travelling in modern times?
Ans: The changes that have improved the travelling in recent times are:
1. Better roads, bridges and flyovers ensure the smooth movement of vehicles.
2. Many guest houses, restaurants, night shelters and hotels provide comfort and
safety to travellers.
3. Faster and more comfortable means of transport make travelling a pleasure.

Q 5: Mention five benefits of planting trees?

Ans: The five benefits of planting trees are:
1. Trees provide us green cover of the earth.
 2. They clean the atmosphere by converting carbon di-oxide into oxygen.
3. They provide us gifts like wood etc…
4. They give us medicines.
5. Trees bind the soil and protect it from soil erosion.

Fill in the blanks:

1. Step wells harvest rain water.

2. Community service has always been an important part of the Indian history and culture.
3. Ashoka, a great ruler, understood the importance of good roads for the progress of
trade.
4. Sisandras were built in Karnataka.
5. A sarai is a rest house.
6. In our country, water is supplied mainly through pipelines.
7. Kunds are commonly found in Gujarat.
8. Kings constructed the sarais in olden times.
9.

True or False:

Sl. No. Description Answer

Step wells are not common in False
Gujarat and Rajasthan
People are unaware about the True
benefits of tree plantation
Government and its agencies True
lokk after the community
service in modern times
Water pollution has become a True
major concern in all parts of
India
Water harvesting is a modern False
technique