India · CBSE Learning Outcomes
Class 3 Environmental Studies
Class 3 EVS: understanding relationships, shelter and housing, the importance of water, and how food reaches us from the farm. Children connect their lives to the wider community.
Relationships and Community
Children explore how people relate to one another: in families, in school, and in the community around them.
How families stay connected even when they live far apart: letters, phone calls, and visits during festivals.
The people who make a school work: teachers, the principal, the peon, the cook in the mid-day meal kitchen.
People in our community speak different languages, eat different food, and celebrate different festivals.
Learning about community helpers like the postman, the doctor, and the sanitation workers who keep our surroundings clean.
Shelter and Housing
Children learn why we need houses, how houses are different in different parts of India, and what makes a house a home.
Understanding that houses protect us from rain, heat, cold, and animals.
From houseboats in Kashmir to bamboo houses in Assam to mud houses in Rajasthan.
What turns a building into a home: the people, the cooking, and the warmth of being together.
Exploring where animals live, from nests and burrows to hives and sheds.
Water and Life
Children deepen their understanding of water: where it comes from, how communities share it, and the importance of conservation.
Rivers, lakes, wells, borewells, and rainwater: understanding the different places we get water from.
Some people walk long distances to fetch water. Clean water is not equally available to everyone.
When there is too much rain, rivers overflow. When there is too little, the land becomes dry.
Practical ways to conserve water at home and in school to prevent wastage.
Introduction to ice, water, and steam through simple observations of the environment.
Food and Farming
Children explore how food is grown, who grows it, and how food travels from the farm to the kitchen.
Understanding the hard work of farming: ploughing, sowing, watering, and harvesting.
Following the journey of food: from the field to the mandi, and then to the shop.
India's incredible variety of food: idli, paratha, pitha, and dhokla.
Identifying which parts of plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, fruits, and seeds.
Travel and Communication
How we move from place to place and how we share messages with people near and far.
Exploring land, water, and air transport used in India, from bullock carts to metro trains.
How a letter travels from a post-box to its destination through the postal system.
Understanding sign language, facial expressions, and gestures used to communicate.