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प्रश्न
Ask a few other questions and write their answers.
उत्तर
(1) How much sand is mixed with cement?
Answer: Five bags of sand are mixed with one bag of cement.
(2) Who makes the map of buildings?
Answer: An architect makes the map of buildings.
(3) Why cranes are used at construction sites?
Answer: To lift heavy objects.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Talk to any one of your grandparents or any other elderly person. Find out, when she or he was eight-nine years old -
- Where did she or he live? Name that place.
- From what material was her or his house made?
- Did they have a toilet in their house? If no, where was it?
- In which part of the house was food cooked?
- A lot of mud was used when Chetandas' house was made. Why?
Chetandas tells that people from the basti used to come to clean the toilets and take away the waste. They were not allowed to enter the house.
- The people who used the toilets did not clean them. Discuss.
- Is there a toilet in your house? Who cleans it?
What material have been used in making your house?
Where would you like to live when you grow up? What kind of house would you like?
Now, look at the picture and fill in the table.
What kind of work is being done by different people here?
What tools are they shown using in the picture? Write them in the given table.
| Work | Tool | What is the person called |
| 1. | ||
| 2. | ||
| 3. | ||
| 4. |
Do you know people who do these type of work? Talk to them and find out about their work. Discuss it with your friends.
With your teacher or someone from home, go to a place where a building is being constructed. Talk to the people working there and find out answers to these questions.
- What is being built there?
- How many people are working there?
- What kind of work are they doing?
- How many men and women are there?
- Are any children working there? What are they doing?
- How much money do these people get paid daily? Ask from any three different people.
- Where do these people live?
- What are the materials being used for making the building?
- Try and guess how many trucks of bricks and bags of cement will be used for making the building.
How does the material reach the building site? (By truck, handcart, any other vehicle) List them.
Find out the price of
| One bag of cement | ______ |
| One brick | ______ |
| One truck of sand | ______ |
Over the sixty years, different materials were used at different times in Chetandas’ house. List these in the correct order.
- Divide the children in the class into 3-4 groups. Let each group make a model of a different house. For this, you can use mud, wood, paper, pieces of cloth, shoe-boxes, match boxes and colours.
- Place all the houses so as to construct a neighbourhood colony.
