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Water · NCERT Class 3 Our Wondrous World

Water — A Precious Gift

Water is a precious gift that every living thing needs. Tap each idea to learn where water comes from, how rain keeps it moving, and why we must keep it clean and never waste it.

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Six things about water

Tap each term to discover where water comes from and how to save it.

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Three big ideas

  • Water comes from rivers, lakes, ponds, wells and rain. At home it reaches us through taps and pipes.
  • We use water to drink, cook, bathe, wash and clean, and farmers use it to grow crops.
  • Plants, animals and people all need water to live. No living thing can survive without it.

Count. Name three ways you used water this morning.

You may have brushed your teeth, drunk water, and washed your face — three uses before breakfast!

  • The sun warms water in rivers and seas and turns it into vapour that rises into the sky.
  • The vapour cools to form clouds, and then falls back as rain.
  • Rain fills our rivers, ponds and wells again. So water keeps moving round and round — this is the water cycle.
Common mix-up: Rain water is not “new” water. It is the same water moving from rivers and seas, up to the clouds and back again.
  • We should drink clean water — boiled or filtered. Dirty water carries germs that make us ill.
  • Store water in covered pots so dirt and flies stay out.
  • Save water! Close taps tightly, reuse bath water for plants, and tell others not to waste it. Clean water is precious.

Think. You see a tap dripping in the school garden. What should you do?

Turn it off tightly, or tell a teacher. A dripping tap can waste many buckets of precious water in a day.

Where you'll see it

Water in our lives

At the tap

Turning off the tap while brushing your teeth can save several mugs of clean water every single day.

After the rains

Ponds and wells fill up after the monsoon, giving villages water to drink and farms water to grow crops.

Safe drinking water

Boiling or filtering water before drinking keeps germs away and stops tummy upsets.

Check yourself

Fun quiz

A friendly set of questions to check that you can use these ideas, not just remember them.

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Interactive built to the OpenMAIC approach (THU-MAIC, MIT). Content from the NCERT Class 3 Our Wondrous World textbook (ncert.nic.in).

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