Class 4 The World Around Us • Our Wondrous World • Unit: Our Community • Chapter 2 • Reprint 2026–27
Answer-first chapter overview
Neighbourhoods connect people through roads, transport, communication and services. Maps and landmarks help us describe routes clearly.
Learning focus
Students investigate communication, transport, neighbourhood services, banks, basic financial literacy, routes, landmarks and maps. This is one interdisciplinary learning area, not separate NCERT Science and Social Studies books.
Observation or inquiry activity
Draw a route from home to one nearby service. Add landmarks, direction arrows and a simple key.
Think and answer
- How has communication changed over time?
- What service does a bank provide?
- Why are landmarks useful on a route?
How should this chapter be studied?
Begin with a safe real-world observation, read the official chapter, discuss evidence, complete the activity, and explain each answer in your own words.
Which book and grade does this page follow?
It follows Class 4 Our Wondrous World code deev1. Class 3 uses ceev1 and has a different 12-chapter sequence; those titles are not mixed here.
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Official sources: NCERT Chapter 2 PDF · CIET Our Wondrous World book page
Original NCERT Kaksha activity companion; no textbook passage or artwork is reproduced. Retired Looking Around chapters are excluded from the current navigation.