Earth — Our Shared Home | EVS Grade 5 CBSE

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Six ideas for caring for the Earth

The Earth needs our care. Tap each term to see how you can help our shared home.

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The three big ideas

The Earth is the only home we have, and we share it with countless plants and animals. We all depend on the same air, water and soil.
Plants give us food and the oxygen we breathe, clean the air, and shelter animals. Animals help too — bees and butterflies help flowers make fruit, earthworms keep the soil healthy, and birds spread seeds.
When we harm nature, we harm ourselves; when we care for it, everyone benefits.

Everyday example. Look closely at one tree in a park. How many living things does it help?

It gives you shade and oxygen, fruit for a squirrel, a home for birds, and flowers for bees — one tree supports many lives.

Caring for nature is simple and important. Plant and water trees, do not pluck flowers or break branches needlessly, and keep parks and forests clean.
Be kind to animals — give water to birds in summer, never tease or hurt strays, and do not litter, because plastic harms animals that swallow it.
Keeping water bodies clean protects fish and the birds that depend on them. Every small kindness to nature counts.

Common mix-up: Even “small” creatures like bees, ants and earthworms are important. Harming them upsets nature’s balance, so we protect them too.

We make a lot of waste, and too much of it harms the Earth. The three Rs help. Reduce: use and buy only what you need, and avoid extra plastic.
Reuse: use things again — refill a bottle, store food in old jars, write on both sides of paper, and donate clothes you have outgrown.
Recycle: send paper, glass, metal and plastic to be made into new things by putting waste in the correct bins. Together, the three Rs cut rubbish and save the Earth’s resources.

Everyday example. Name one way to reuse an empty jam jar, a notebook, and an outgrown shirt.

Turn the jar into a pencil holder, write on both sides of the notebook, and pass on the shirt to someone smaller — that is reuse in action.

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Caring for our planet

Sorting your waste

Putting paper, plastic and food scraps into the right bins lets them be recycled or turned into compost instead of piling up as rubbish.

A water bowl for birds

Keeping a small bowl of water on a balcony in summer helps thirsty birds — a tiny act of care for the living world.

Plant a tree

Planting and watering even one tree gives shade, clean air and a home for birds and insects for many years.

Check yourself

Competency quiz

A friendly set of questions — mostly multiple-choice with an assertion–reason and a case study — to check that you can use these ideas, not just remember them.

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