EVS worksheet : Animal Around Us class 1 kids

Introduction:

The presence of animals is very essential because it maintains the balance in the ecosystem. In today’s world, some animals also serve as our companions and help reduce the stress, anxiety, depression, and loneliness. Every organism has its own unique place in the food chain, and each contributes to maintaining the existence of life on this planet. The man had learned early that with their more complex and advanced mind, they are superior to any other animal living on the Earth. They breathe, eat food, grow in size, move from one place to another in search of food and home and reproduce by either laying eggs or by giving birth to young ones.

Animal Around Us

Every organism present on earth has a significant role in balancing our ecosystem. There are different types of animals present around our surroundings.

When we look around in our surroundings, we discover different kinds of animals. Animals are found all over the world who differ in sizes, shapes, colour and in the kind of places they live in.

Types of animals are:

• Wild Animals – Animals that live in a natural environment (i.e. shelter is not provided by man) and are responsible for getting their own food and water are called wild animals. Some of the wild animals can also be seen in zoos. Wild animals are often fierce and dangerous. Examples include foxes, deer, lions, tiger bears, giraffes etc.
• Domestic animals – They are those animals that depend on humans for their shelter, food, water, and general care are called domestic animals. Examples include house cats, dogs, parakeets, a cow, horse, sheep, etc.
• Pet animal – Pet animals are also the domestic animals that are kept for companionship and amusement. Pet animals include dogs, cats, parrots, etc.
• Farm animals – Farm animals are those animals that are reared for a purpose that is for their meat, their milk, their hair, or something else. Examples include sheep, goat, cow, goat, buffalo etc.
• Land animals – Animals that live primarily on land are called land animals. Examples include peacock, horse, rhinoceros, elephant, giraffe, buffalo etc.
• Water animals – Animals that live in water are called water animals. They have specialised organs called gills. Examples include whale, shark, dolphin, seahorse, octopus, fish etc.

Importance of Animals

Animals are useful to us in many ways.

• Many animals such as ox and bullock are used to plough the field.
• Donkeys, camels and many other animals are used to carry loads from one place to another, especially in villages.
• Animals like cows, buffalos, goats provide us with milk.
• We get eggs from hen and duck.
• Sheep are reared for wool and silkworm for silk. Woollen clothes that we wear are made of wool. Clothes are also made of silk.
• Animals like dogs guard our houses and are good companions of human beings.

Instructions to solve the worksheet

Given below are the names of some animals based on your understanding identify them and write their names in the corresponding blanks

Importance of Environmental Education

• EVS helps children to develop their own insights into the functioning of several things or understanding human processes in their environment. Such interactions with their surrounding environment are immensely important for the healthy development of children.
• Not only does environmental education offer opportunities for experiential learning outside of the classroom, it enables students to make connections and apply their learning in the real world.
• EVS helps learners see the interconnectedness of social, ecological, economic, cultural, and political issues.
• By providing environmental education to students they will engage problem-solving techniques of the outer world to their subjects to understand a particular problem by implying outdoor environmental solutions.
• Environmental Education gives students a new meaning of exploring mother nature to see and resolve the issues which are harmful to the environment and this will also help them in maintaining their own health by doing physical work so that their bodies will be immune from some serious health issues such as short-sightedness, obesity and in some cases even lack concentration.
• The one major issues which we need to deal with is pollution and if we don’t educate our kids about the hazardous effects of environmental damage there will be no future of the world.