3EM_EVS.pdf

The SCERT Telangana textbook "We - Our Environment" for Class III focuses on environmental studies, with 16 lessons covering various themes such as family, friends, work, games, animals, plants, food, water, shelters, travel, and village. The textbook aims to develop learning skills among children, with activities and exercises designed to promote self-learning, information skills, observation, exploration, and project work. The lessons include simple language, beautiful pictures, and real pictures, with exercises titled "Do this" to achieve prescribed competencies. The textbook emphasizes the importance of understanding and appreciating the diversity of the environment, and encourages children to interact and discuss with their peers, teachers, parents, and society. The expected change comes from the individual, with 10 points highlighted, including keeping a cloth bag, saving water, saving energy, growing plants, separating dry and wet waste, collecting old things, reducing travel, using solar energy, using online services, and not wasting food.