Class 4 The World Around Us • Our Wondrous World • Unit: Life Around Us • Chapter 4 • Reprint 2026–27
Answer-first chapter overview
Materials, art, houses and traditions often reflect the local environment. Sustainable choices use resources carefully without romanticising or copying a community’s culture.
Learning focus
Students investigate nature-culture connections, flowers, houses, tribal art, natural dyes, medicinal plants and sustainable living. This is one interdisciplinary learning area, not separate NCERT Science and Social Studies books.
Observation or inquiry activity
Identify one natural colour source and design a paper pattern inspired by local plants without plucking protected material.
Think and answer
- How can geography influence houses?
- What is a natural dye?
- Give two features of sustainable living.
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 4 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.