Teaching Kids to Avoid Waste Effectively
Life Skills & Value Education – CLASS-I – UNIT- 8 AVOID WASTING
Things such as food, water and electricity are our daily basic needs. These things are limited in supply. We must not waste them; we should use them wisely. If we waste them, we will finish them quickly. For example, if you waste paper of your notebooks by tearing them or scribbling on them, there will be fewer blank pages left for classwork. In the same way, due to a lot of food, water and electricity wastage, many people have to live without proper meals, clean water and the continuous supply of electricity. We can avoid wastage by taking the following steps.
- Always switch off fans and lights when not in use.
- Use both sides of a piece paper to write on.
- Bathe using a bucket instead of taking a shower.
- Give leftover food to someone in need.
- If there is a leaking tap, get a plumber to fix it.
Story Time
Importance of Water

In a village called Dholakpur, there once lived a little boy called Sonu. He never wasted water. He always told the villagers to save it. But the villagers looked at him and said, ‘Oh! Who cares for water? There is so much water in the oceans, seas, lakes and rivers.
One day, Sonu and his friends met the village head. Sonu told the village head that the villagers wasted it and when he asked them to save water they ignored him. So, Sonu and his friends wanted to explain the importance of water to the villagers.
They said, ‘Can we stop the village’s water supply for a day? This will help the villagers understand the importance of water.’ The village head agreed.
The next day, all the taps of the village went dry. The villagers thought of going to the river to get some water. But, the nearest
river was about 10 kilometres away from Dholakpur.
They thought of bringing water from the nearby village. But, the people in the nearby village were not ready to help them. They knew that the villagers of Dholakpur always wasted water.
The villagers became very sad. They said, ‘Had we not wasted water and used it properly, today we would have plenty of water for ourselves. We should have listened to Sonu.’
They went to the village head to ask for his help. The village head saw that the villagers had realised their mistake and had learned their lesson. He restarted the water supply. The villagers of Dholakpur never wasted water again and started saving it
Moral of the Story: Do not waste things. Use them wisely.
Ways in which we can prevent the wastage of food:

- Buying food items in the required quantities only.
- Avoiding unnecessary cooking.
- Keeping leftover food in the refrigerator.
- Trying to reuse leftover by making new recipes.
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