NCERT Book Class 5 The World Around Us (Our Wonderous World) Chapter 7 Energy-How Things Work

Unit 4

Things Around Us

About the Unit
This unit at the preparatory stage aims things with their own hands, they
to familiarise students with various develop a deeper appreciation for the
things around them — how things materials we use in everyday life, and
work and how things are made. In also learn to connect and care for their
Grades 3 and 4, students have engaged environment.
with local toys like (spinners and In Grade 5, this unit invites
paper boats) to understand how they students to explore how everyday
work. They have also learned about things, like energy and cloth, are made
how things are made by exploring the and used. Through simple activities
processes of bricks, paper, etc. and local examples, they learn how
While making things with locally energy enables movement and light,
available materials students learn how threads become fabric, and why
useful methods of sustainable reusing things and clean energy
development, including refuse, matter. It helps them see the unseen
reduce, reuse, repurpose and recycle processes behind familiar things in
(the 5 R s) so that they can make their homes and surroundings.
responsible decisions. By making