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  Is your family like any one of these families? If yes,
  like which one? How is your family like their's?
The Story of Food
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What kind of work are people doing in both the families?
Discuss carefully and sensitively the issues such as defined gender
roles, etc. Allow children the freedom to question these without hurting
the feeling of others.
Venu's Family Rani's Family
e_     Look at the pictures given above.
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  Is your family like any one of these families? If yes,
  like which one? How is your family like their's?
The Story of Food
1 1
1 1 1
What kind of work are people doing in both the families?
Discuss carefully and sensitively the issues such as defined gender
roles, etc. Allow children the freedom to question these without hurting
the feeling of others.
Venu's Family Rani's Family
e_     Look at the pictures given above.
2019-20
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not to be republished
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Work Who does the work
In your house In your friend’s house
If not, let us talk about your family.
i Do all the people in your family eat together? If not, why?
i Who eats last in the family?
i Who does not help in cooking food in the family and
why?
i In the table, some of the work done in the house
hasbeen mentioned. Find out who does them in your
house and who does them in your friend’s house.
You can add some other work also to the list.
Filling water
Cooking food
Buying things from
the market
Sweeping
Cleaning the utensils
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  Is your family like any one of these families? If yes,
  like which one? How is your family like their's?
The Story of Food
1 1
1 1 1
What kind of work are people doing in both the families?
Discuss carefully and sensitively the issues such as defined gender
roles, etc. Allow children the freedom to question these without hurting
the feeling of others.
Venu's Family Rani's Family
e_     Look at the pictures given above.
2019-20
© NCERT 
not to be republished
95
Work Who does the work
In your house In your friend’s house
If not, let us talk about your family.
i Do all the people in your family eat together? If not, why?
i Who eats last in the family?
i Who does not help in cooking food in the family and
why?
i In the table, some of the work done in the house
hasbeen mentioned. Find out who does them in your
house and who does them in your friend’s house.
You can add some other work also to the list.
Filling water
Cooking food
Buying things from
the market
Sweeping
Cleaning the utensils
2019-20
© NCERT 
not to be republished
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i Who does more work? In your’s house
In your friend’s house
Where does what we eat come from? Where does what we eat come from? Where does what we eat come from? Where does what we eat come from? Where does what we eat come from?
The names of some food items are given below. Add some more
names to the list. Draw a green  around those items that we
get from plants. Draw a red around those items that we get
from animals.
Honey Turmeric Fish ____________
Corn Milk Lemon ____________
Spinach Potato Ajwain ____________
Egg Meat Banana ____________
Tomato Onion ____________ ____________
When you are sick, do you take any medicine
which we get from plants? What do you take
when you
© get hurt
© have a stomachache
Help children to identify plants which are available in their immediate
environment and are used as medicines. This will enhance their
traditional knowledge of medicinal plants.
2019-20
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not to be republished
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  Is your family like any one of these families? If yes,
  like which one? How is your family like their's?
The Story of Food
1 1
1 1 1
What kind of work are people doing in both the families?
Discuss carefully and sensitively the issues such as defined gender
roles, etc. Allow children the freedom to question these without hurting
the feeling of others.
Venu's Family Rani's Family
e_     Look at the pictures given above.
2019-20
© NCERT 
not to be republished
95
Work Who does the work
In your house In your friend’s house
If not, let us talk about your family.
i Do all the people in your family eat together? If not, why?
i Who eats last in the family?
i Who does not help in cooking food in the family and
why?
i In the table, some of the work done in the house
hasbeen mentioned. Find out who does them in your
house and who does them in your friend’s house.
You can add some other work also to the list.
Filling water
Cooking food
Buying things from
the market
Sweeping
Cleaning the utensils
2019-20
© NCERT 
not to be republished
96
i Who does more work? In your’s house
In your friend’s house
Where does what we eat come from? Where does what we eat come from? Where does what we eat come from? Where does what we eat come from? Where does what we eat come from?
The names of some food items are given below. Add some more
names to the list. Draw a green  around those items that we
get from plants. Draw a red around those items that we get
from animals.
Honey Turmeric Fish ____________
Corn Milk Lemon ____________
Spinach Potato Ajwain ____________
Egg Meat Banana ____________
Tomato Onion ____________ ____________
When you are sick, do you take any medicine
which we get from plants? What do you take
when you
© get hurt
© have a stomachache
Help children to identify plants which are available in their immediate
environment and are used as medicines. This will enhance their
traditional knowledge of medicinal plants.
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© have cough and cold
© have a toothache
Choose the correct basket for each item. Draw a line to
match.
In this exercise names of some parts of plants eaten as food are given.
More names can be added to the list during discussion.
flowers
fruits
leaves
Ginger
Mango
Gram
Spinach
Cauliflower
Banana
Amla
Lotus stem
Curry leaves
Potato
Jackfruit
Carrot
French beans
Mustard
Radish
Flowers of
Kachnar
any other part
of a plant
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