Wandering seeds!

• The seeds are great travelers! They can reach far and wide.
• The seeds has many tiny hooks which get stuck to clothes or fur. They can also travel through water.
• When the soyabean pods are ripe, they burst and the seeds are thrown out.
• GREEN CHILLIES, TOMATO and POTATO were brought to INDIA by traders coming from South America.
• FROM EUROPE – Cabbage and Pea were brought.
• FROM AFRICA – COFFEE Beans and Green Bhindi.

• EVERY DROP COUNTS

• This chapter talks about a place named GHADISAR. Sar means a lake.
• There was the school on the Ghat.
• This is the story of JAISALMER.
• There were nine lakes and they can be filled with a single lake.
• Jaisalmer get very little rainfall, once in a year or sometimes not even that.
• At some places people celebrate it whenever lakes get filled up with water e.g in UTTARAKHAND new bride goes to bow to the spring or the pond.
• THE REASONS WHY WELLS HAVE DRIED UP…
• Water is being pumped up from under the ground, with the help of electric motors.
• The lakes in which rain water used to collect are no longer there.
• The soil around trees and parks is now covered with cement

EXPERIMENTS WITH WATER

• All oceans and seas have salty water.
• The saltiest water can be found in the dead sea.
• Around 300gms of salt in one litre of water.
• No one can be drawn in the dead sea because of that much salt.(density)
• The person will float on the surface of water

A TREAT FOR MOSQUITOES

• In malaria Fever comes with Chills and Rigors.
• Medicine for malaria- bark of the cinchona tree.
• Iron can be found in – Jaggery, Amla and more green leafy vegetables.
• Flies spread diseases like stomach problems.
• Algae is a kind of plant which spreads in the rainy season (mostly).
• The scientist who peeped into a mosquito’s stomach- RONAL ROSS.
• He found out about malaria before this people believe that it’s a disease of bad air.
• Malaria is caused by a one-celled parasite called a Plasmodium.
• Female Anopheles mosquitoes- looks brownish with spotted wings.

• UP YOU GO!

• Qualities of a Leader:
– Help others in carrying their bags.
– Let the group go ahead and keep to the last.
– Help those who cannot climb properly.
– Find a good place to stop and rest.
– Look after those who are not well.
– Arrange for food for the group.
• The most important thing is to be ready to be punished even when someone else may have made a mistake.
• Vitamins and iron give strength and keep us warm in the cold.
• Tekla village is at the height of 1600 mts in Jhalrapatan (Jhalwar) RAJASTHAN.
• The angle of our body should be 90 degree while climbing and the back should be straight.
• Bachhendri Pal is the first Indian woman and the fifth woman in the world to reach the peak of Mount Everest.

A Shelter so High!

• Mumbai is the most crowded city of India.
• To reach Delhi from Mumbai one has to cross many states like Maharashtra, Gujrat, Rajasthan.
• The distance from Mumbai to Delhi is 1400kms.
• The roads of Jammu and Kashmir are difficult due to mountains.
• One has to cross Jammu and Kashmir in order to reach Leh Ladakh.
• People use Nylon tents on hilly areas.
• Ladakh is called cold desert.
• In Ladakh you’ll see wooden houses, houses with sloping roofs and covered in snow.
• Manali is in Himachal Pradesh.
• Ladakh is high, dry and flat called a cold desert.
• Ladakh gets very little rainfall.
• There are high snowcapped mountains and a cold, flat ground because of the dryness no plants and trees grow in Ladakh.
• In Ladakh ‘Jule Jule’ means welcome, welcome.
• It was a building with two floors.
• The house was made of stones which were kept one over the other.
• The walls were coated with a thick layer of mud and lime.
• The house looked like a shed from inside with a lot of hay stored there.
• We took the wooden steps and reached the first floor