🚁🚁The Environment and The Importance of the Environment🚁🚁

 Welcome 👦👧boys and girls to another class. Today, we will be going on an adventure where we will be exploring the topic: The definition and The Importance of the Environment. Read all given information and do the activities below.

What is the Environment?

The environment is everything around us — the air we breathe, the water we drink, the land we live on, plants, animals, and the weather. It is our natural home!

The Importance of the Environment

1. It Gives Us Air to Breathe 🌬️

Trees and plants clean the air and give us fresh oxygen. Without them, we cannot breathe or live.

2. It Gives Us Water 💧

Rivers, lakes, and rain give us clean water for drinking, cooking, and washing.

3. It Gives Us Food 🥕

We get food from the soil, plants, and animals. Healthy soil and clean water help crops grow.

4. It Gives Us a Home 🏡

Trees, plants, and animals all need the environment to live. If we harm nature, they lose their homes too.

5. It Keeps Us Healthy 🌳

Clean air, clean water, and green spaces keep our bodies and minds healthy and happy.

6. It Protects Us 🌊

Forests stop floods and landslides. Mangroves and coral reefs protect coastlines. Trees give us shade and cool the air.

How Can We Help?

• ✅ Plant trees and water plants
• ✅ Save water and turn off taps
• ✅ Throw trash in bins — don't litter
• ✅ Reduce, reuse, and recycle
• ✅ Save electricity
• ✅ Be kind to animals and don't harm plants 

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Now that we have learnt about the definition and the importance of the environment . It's activities time boys and girls!!

Task 1
Write the question and the answer only.

 

1. What is the environment?
a) Only the animals around us
b) Everything around us — air, water, land, plants, and animals
c) Only the trees
d) Only the weather

2. What do trees give us to breathe?
a) Water
b) Carbon dioxide
c) Oxygen
d) Food

3. Where do we get clean water from?
a) Rivers, lakes, and rain
b) Rocks
c) Clouds only
d) Plastic

4. What helps crops grow?
a) Dirty water
b) Healthy soil and clean water
c) Litter
d) Smoke

5. What do forests stop?
a) Rain
b) Floods and landslides
c) Sunshine
d) Wind only

6. What protects coastlines?
a) Buildings
b) Mangroves and coral reefs
c) Cars
d) Roads

7. What should we do with trash?
a) Throw it on the ground
b) Burn it
c) Put it in bins
d) Throw it in rivers

8. What does "reduce, reuse, recycle" mean?
a) Use more things
b) Use less, use again, and make new things from old things
c) Throw things away
d) Buy more things

9. Why should we save electricity?
a) To help the environment
b) To make lights brighter
c) To use more power
d) It doesn't matter

10. What gives us shade and cools the air?
a) Buildings
b) Trees
c) Cars
d) Rocks

11. What happens if we harm nature?
a) Nothing happens
b) Animals and plants lose their homes
c) It gets better
d) More trees grow

12. Why is the environment important for our health?
a) It gives us toys
b) Clean air, clean water, and green spaces keep us healthy
c) It gives us money
d) It doesn't affect us

13. What should we do to animals and plants?
a) Harm them
b) Ignore them
c) Be kind to them and not harm them
d) Remove them

14. Who should take care of the environment?
a) Only adults
b) Only teachers
c) Everyone
d) Only the government

15. What is the environment like?
a) A small box
b) A big house we all share
c) A shop
d) A school only 

Task 2:

Read the scenario then answer the questions in your notebook.

Scenario 1:
Your friend throws an empty juice box on the ground during lunch break.

a) Is this good or bad for the environment? Why?

b) What should your friend do instead, and why?

Scenario 2:
Your class notices that the tap in the school bathroom is left running all day.

a) What problem does this cause for the environment?

b) What can your class do to solve this problem?

Scenario 3:
A builder wants to cut down all the trees in a park to build a shopping mall.

a) How will this affect the environment and the animals living there?

b) What would you suggest as a better solution, and why?

Task 3:
Use the words in bold print to complete each question.
oxygen, soil, landslides, plants, reuse, healthy, it, around 

1. The environment is everything ___________ us.

2. Trees and plants give us fresh ___________.

3. We get food from the ___________, plants, and animals.

4. Forests stop floods and ___________.

5. We should ___________ trees and water plants.

6. We should reduce, ___________, and recycle.

7. Clean air, clean water, and green spaces keep us ___________. 

8. The environment takes care of us, so we must take care of ___________.

 Task 4: Answer all questions

1. Why is the environment important for us? Write two reasons.

2. How do trees help us? Write two ways.

3. What are three things you can do to help the environment?

4. Why should we be kind to animals and plants?

Task 5:

Write true or false 

1. The environment is only the air around us. _______

2. Trees clean the air and give us oxygen. _______

3. We should throw trash in rivers. _______

4. Forests help stop floods and landslides. _______

5. Only adults need to take care of the environment. _______

6. Saving water means turning off taps when not in use. _______

7. Healthy soil and clean water help crops grow. _______

8. Small actions by everyone can make a big difference. _______