Class 3 The World Around Us • Our Wondrous World • Unit: Our Families and Communities • Chapter 1 • Reprint 2026–27
Answer-first chapter overview
Families and communities can have different forms, but care, respect and shared responsibility help people live well together.
Learning focus
Students investigate family relationships, mutual care, shared work, friends, neighbours, elders, games, pets and compassion. This is one interdisciplinary Class 3 learning area integrating the natural and social world; it is not split into separate Science and Social Studies books.
Observation activity
Make a “people who help me” web. Add family members, friends or neighbours and one way you help each person.
Think and answer
- What makes people feel cared for?
- Name two household tasks children can safely share.
- How should we behave with elders, neighbours and animals?
How should this chapter be studied?
Start from a real observation, discuss what you notice, use the official chapter for context, complete the activity safely, and answer in your own words.
Is “EVS” the official current title?
The official curricular-area name is The World Around Us and the book is Our Wondrous World. “EVS” is only a familiar search synonym here.
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Official sources: NCERT Chapter 1 PDF · complete official book route
Original NCERT Kaksha activity companion. No textbook passage or artwork is reproduced. No CIET audio link is claimed because the current Class 3 audio index does not list this book.