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CBSE Class 3 · Science

Plants and Animals Live Together

Official NCERT chapter from Our Wondrous World (book code ceev1). ExamMaster notes are original teaching at CBSE Class 3 depth.

This lesson follows the official chapter “Plants and Animals Live Together” in Our Wondrous World. The words below are ExamMaster’s teaching, not a paste from the book. Use the NCERT chapter for the classroom sequence; use these notes to hold the idea without copying exercises or figures.

  • CBSE Class 3
  • Easy level
  • 8 concepts

1Where there are plants, look for animals too

A plant place is a search hint. Look under, on, or in the plant for an animal you can actually point to.

A empty hedge today still stays a plant place; do not invent a guest.

Figure. A plant place is a search hint. Look on, in, or under the hedge for an animal you can point to. If you see none, say none — do not invent a guest.

How it works

  1. Go to the plant placeHedge, tree, pond edge.
  2. Look for an animalPoint, or say none.
  3. Record only what you can point toTogether needs two real sides.

2An animal may eat, hide, or nest in a plant

Those are three jobs an animal can take from a plant. Name the job you saw, not “they are friends”.

A bird sitting for one second may be resting, not nesting. Do not upgrade the job.

Figure. Eat, hide, and nest are three jobs an animal can take from a plant. Name the job you saw. A bird sitting for one second is rest, not a nest.

How it works

  1. See the animal and the plantBoth pointed to.
  2. Ask eat, hide, or nestWhich evidence?
  3. Keep the smallest honest jobRest is not nest.

3A plant may need an animal to move pollen or seeds

Some plants use bees, birds, or other animals to move pollen or carry seeds. That is a plant-side job that uses an animal.

Not every plant you see is doing that today. Claim it only with a reason.

Figure. Some plants use an animal to move pollen or carry seeds. That is a plant-side job. Claim it for this flower only when you saw the mover; otherwise say some plants do.

How it works

  1. Name the plantThis flower, this fruit.
  2. Name the mover if you saw oneBee on the flower.
  3. If you did not see it, say “some plants do”Not “this one did”.

4Living together is a pair of jobs, not a cartoon friendship

Together means two jobs that meet: animal uses plant, or plant uses animal. Smiley faces are not evidence.

A storybook friendship without a job is a miss.

Figure. Together means two jobs that meet: the animal eats, the plant is food. A cartoon friendship without a job is not evidence.

How it works

  1. Write the animal’s jobEat, hide, nest, move pollen…
  2. Write the plant’s sideFood, place, or needing a mover.
  3. Stop at jobsNo cartoon talk.

5A place with no plants has fewer animal homes

Bare ground can still have some animals, but many homes (nests, shade, food plants) are missing. “Fewer homes” is the careful claim.

“No animals exist” is too big.

Figure. Homes you can point to on one visit, as a sketch, not a census: the planted patch has more nests, shade, and food plants. The bare patch is fewer, not zero living things on Earth.

How it works

  1. Compare a planted patch and a bare patchSame visit time if you can.
  2. Count homes you can point toNests, shade, food.
  3. Say fewer, not none-of-EarthKeep the claim small.

6Sort by a test: who eats, who hides, who makes food

Green plants you studied make food in leaves. Animals eat food they find. Some animals hide. Sort the pair by those tests.

Do not sort by which drawing is cuter.

Figure. Sort the pair by tests, not by which drawing is cuter. The leaf makes food. The sparrow eats. Someone uses the hedge to hide.

How it works

  1. Run make-foodUsually the plant.
  2. Run eatThe animal, or a plant-eater pair.
  3. Run hideWho uses the place.

7One garden case is enough at this class

One hedge with sparrows, or one tulsi with ants, is a finished case. You do not need a jungle list.

Ten named animals with no jobs is weaker than one pair with jobs.

Figure. One hedge or one tulsi with ants is a finished case. Name one plant, one animal, and one job that meets. Ten names with no job is weaker.

How it works

  1. Pick one placeThis garden bit.
  2. Name one plant and one animalPoint.
  3. Name one job that meetsThat is the case.

8A miss: naming a pair that never meets

A polar bear and a coconut tree is a pair that does not meet in your garden. That is a miss even if both are living.

Together requires a place where both can be.

Figure. A polar bear and a coconut tree are both living, but they do not share a place you can point to. That pair is a miss. Together needs a meeting place, such as a bird and a hedge.

How it works

  1. Ask if they share a placeCan both be here?
  2. If never, drop the pairNot this chapter’s together.
  3. Pick a pair that can meetGarden, pond, field.
A bird on a branch for one second is safest called
  1. Resting or perching, unless you see a nest
  2. Nesting for sure
  3. Making food in leaves

Do not upgrade the job past the evidence.

Notes

  • Mapped to the official NCERT chapter “Plants and Animals Live Together”. Original teaching only — no textbook sentences.
  • Science here is Physics, Chemistry and Biology ideas at this class, never a language or social-science chapter.

Recap

Hold these pegs from the official chapter “Plants and Animals Live Together”. The wording is ExamMaster’s teaching, not a textbook recap.

Where there are plants, look for animals too
A plant place is a search hint. Look under, on, or in the plant for an animal you can actually point to.
An animal may eat, hide, or nest in a plant
Those are three jobs an animal can take from a plant.
A plant may need an animal to move pollen or seeds
Some plants use bees, birds, or other animals to move pollen or carry seeds.
Living together is a pair of jobs, not a cartoon friendship
Together means two jobs that meet: animal uses plant, or plant uses animal.
A place with no plants has fewer animal homes
Bare ground can still have some animals, but many homes (nests, shade, food plants) are missing.
Sort by a test: who eats, who hides, who makes food
Green plants you studied make food in leaves.

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