Adapting to Changes Chapter Notes | Science for Grade 2 PDF Download

Introduction

Things around us keep fare changing all the time, like how we look, what we eat, where we live, and how we live. This chapter teaches us how to adjust to these changes. We will learn about changes in school, new places, food, clothes, houses, work, and traditions. It also tells us how life is different now compared to the past and how we can adapt to new things to make our life happy and comfortable.

Changing school

• Starting school feels new and can make us feel scared or cry because it’s different.
• In the first few days, we might feel uncomfortable in school.
• After some time, we make new friends at school.
• We also start feeling okay with our teachers and the school place.
• When we move to a higher class, we get used to the new class and new teachers.
• Sometimes, we change schools if our parents move to a new city or country.
• In a new school, we need to get used to the new place, new teachers, new friends, and new rules.
• Our new friends at school help us feel good by being kind to us.
• Slowly, we feel happy in the new school and adapt to the changes.

Changing neighbourhood and lifestyle

• We may move to a new place if our parents get a new job in a different city or country.
• We move because the new place might have better houses and things like parks or schools.
• We move if the new place is closer to our parents’ work.
• In the new place, we see new houses, new shops, new schools, new bus stops, and new parks.
• We learn to use the park to play or take walks in the new area.
• We learn to buy things from the new shops in the area. These changes in how we live are called lifestyle changes.
• Lifestyle is the way we live, like playing, eating, or shopping.

Making new friends

• When we move to a new place, we meet new people around us.
• We make new friends in the new area.
• We learn how people live in the new place.
• After some time, our new friends become kind to us.
• We help each other when we need something.

Changes in food habits

Every place has different foods because of what grows there Like:

• In north India, people eat foods like idli, dosa, and sambar.
• In south India, people eat foods like rice, dal, and chapatti.
• If we move from north to south India, we start eating foods like idli, dosa, and sambar slowly.
• If we move to a new country, personally might eat foods like pizza, burgers, or noodles instead of rice and dal.
• We slowly get used to the new foods in the new place.

Changes in clothes

• People wear clothes based on the weather of the place.
• In cold places, people wear warm clothes like sweaters, coats, and pants.
• In hot places, people wear light clothes like cotton shirts and shorts.
• We might also wear clothes that people in the new place wear.
• We slowly get used to wearing new types of clothes in the new place.

Changes in houses

• When we move to a new house, we need to get used to how it looks and works.
• The new house can be big or small.
• The floor might be made of wood or tiles.
• The ceilings might be high or low.
• We might live in an individual house or an apartment.
• We slowly get used to the new house and its things.

Changes in work

• Moving to a new place might change the work our parents do.
• In some places, parents don’t have help, so family members do the work together.
• They might do things like washing dishes or cleaning the house with machines.
• They use machines like dishwashers, microwaves, or vacuum cleaners.
• We slowly get used to the new way of working in the new place.

Changes in traditions

• When we move to a new place, we keep doing some of our old traditions.
• We might stop doing some traditions, like fasting on special days, if it’s hard in the new place.
• We learn new traditions in the new place, like celebrating Christmas with neighbours.
• We might start joining in the new festivals or special days of the new place.
• We slowly get used to the new traditions while keeping some old ones.

Changes in lifestyle from past to present

Life now is very different from life in the past. We learn about these changes from our parents and grandparents.

For Example:
Diya says...
Diya’s grandmother is telling her how life has changed over the years. She explains that in the past, many family members, like grandparents, parents, and kids, all lived together in one big house, which is called a joint family. But now, most families are smaller, with just parents and their children, called nuclear families. Today, both moms and dads often go to work to earn money, so they send their young kids to crèches, which are places where people take care of children during the day. Kids also start school earlier now. Food habits have changed too—long ago, people ate simple foods like chapatti, rice, and vegetables, but now kids like fast foods like burgers and cornflakes. We also have processed foods, which are foods that are already prepared, like canned mushrooms or frozen fish. In the past, people cooked on mud stoves or kerosene stoves, but now we use gas stoves, microwaves, or induction stoves, which are faster and easier. Fridges are now in every house to keep food fresh for a long time.

Kitchen in Earlier Times

• Long ago, people built simple houses with lots of space around them.
• Houses had one or two floors with high ceilings.
• Now, people live in tall buildings called apartments because:
• There is not enough space for everyone.
• Families are smaller now, so they don’t need big houses.
• Apartments cost less than building a big house.
• Apartments have modern things like air conditioners, heaters, and geysers.

Clothes in Olden Times

• Long ago, people wore traditional clothes like saree, salwar kameez, dhoti, or kurta-pyjama.
• Now, people wear modern clothes like T-shirts, shorts, and jeans every day.
• People still wear traditional clothes for special days or celebrations.

Fun Fact

In the past, families listened to the radio or watched TV together for fun. Now, everyone watches what they like on their own phone, laptop, or TV.

Adapting to changes

• We learn that things around us always change.
• With time, we get used to the new place or school.
• When we move to a new place or school, we accept the changes.
• Adapting to changes makes our life happy and comfortable.

Points To Remember

• Changes are normal, and we see them all around us.
• Moving from one school to another is also a form of change.
• When we move to a new place, there is a change in how we live.
• We change our food habits and lifestyles to fit the new place.
• With time, we get used to the changes our family makes.
• Our lifestyle now is different from our grandparents’ lifestyle.
• We need to learn how to adapt to all these changes.

Glossary

• Initial: Beginning
• Gradually: Slowly
• Promoted: Move upward
• Locality: Area
• Tradition: Ways of doing things followed since a long time