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Class 1 EVS Worksheets with Answers (Grade 1) - Free PDF 2026-27

Q: Does EVS matter, or is it just Maths and English that count at this stage?

It matters for a reason that only shows up later. EVS is where the habit of explaining why something happens gets built, and that is exactly what Class 6 Science then demands. A child who learns to memorise EVS facts at Class 1 tends to hit that wall at Class 6.

Five complete Class 1 EVS worksheets, with every question printed on this page and a full answer key for each. They cover the topics a Class 1 EVS syllabus actually works through - my body and the senses, my family, plants, animals, and food, water and cleanliness. One thing worth knowing before you start, because no other worksheet site says it: NCERT publishes no Class 1 EVS textbook at all. Whatever book your school uses is a private publisher's, which is why two schools' Class 1 EVS syllabuses rarely match.

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What these practise

Myself - parts of the body, the five sense organs and what each one does
My family - relations, small and joint families, and how members help each other
Plants around us - parts of a plant, trees and creepers, and which part we eat
Animals around us - wild, domestic and water animals, their food, homes and young
Food and water - everyday and sometimes foods, the three jobs food does, where water comes from
Keeping clean - everyday habits and the reason each one matters

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Class 1 EVS My Body and Sense Organs Worksheet

Class 1 EVS · My body and the five senses · 56 questions with answers

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The first EVS topic almost every Class 1 syllabus opens with, and the one children find easiest to talk about because the subject matter is already attached to them. This sheet moves from naming body parts to matching each sense organ to the job it does - which is the step that actually gets tested, and the one children muddle when they have only learned a list.

Name the main external parts of the body and point to each one.
Match each of the five sense organs to the sense it gives us.
Say which sense organ you would use for a given everyday task.

Exercise 1 of 5 · 12 questions

Write the name of the body part used for each action.

Write the answer · Warm-up

Here’s one done for you

We use this to chew our food → Teeth. Read the action first, then ask which single part does that job.

1)We use these to walk and run.
2)We use these to hold a pencil.
3)We use this to think.
4)We use these to see.
5)We use this to smell a flower.
6)We use these to hear a bell.
7)We use this to speak and taste.
8)We use these to chew our food.
9)We use this to breathe in air.
10)We use these to clap.
11)We use this to nod yes or no.
12)We use these to kick a ball.

Answers

1) Legs
2) Hands (fingers)
3) Brain (head)
4) Eyes
5) Nose
6) Ears
7) Tongue
8) Teeth
9) Nose
10) Hands
11) Head (neck)
12) Legs (feet)

Exercise 2 of 5 · 10 questions

Match the sense organ to the sense it gives us.

Match the pairs · Guided

Here’s one done for you

There are five sense organs and five senses, one each. If a child gives the same sense twice, the pairing has gone wrong somewhere - check tongue and nose first, because taste and smell get swapped most often.

1)Eyes
2)Ears
3)Nose
4)Tongue
5)Skin
6)Sight
7)Hearing
8)Smell
9)Taste
10)Touch

Answers

1) Eyes - sight (we see)
2) Ears - hearing (we hear)
3) Nose - smell (we smell)
4) Tongue - taste (we taste)
5) Skin - touch (we feel)
6) Sight - eyes
7) Hearing - ears
8) Smell - nose
9) Taste - tongue
10) Touch - skin

Exercise 3 of 5 · 12 questions

Which sense organ would you use? Write the answer.

Write the answer · Practice

1)To find out if the milk is hot.
2)To know that a mango is sweet.
3)To read a story in your book.
4)To know that someone is knocking at the door.
5)To find out that the flowers in the garden smell nice.
6)To feel that a stone is rough.
7)To know that the lemon is sour.
8)To hear your name being called.
9)To see the colour of a balloon.
10)To know that food has gone bad.
11)To feel that the water is cold.
12)To watch a bird fly past.

Answers

1) Skin
2) Tongue
3) Eyes
4) Ears
5) Nose
6) Skin
7) Tongue
8) Ears
9) Eyes
10) Nose
11) Skin
12) Eyes

Exercise 4 of 5 · 10 questions

Circle the one that does not belong with the others.

Circle the answer · Practice

Here’s one done for you

eyes, ears, nose, chair → circle chair. Ask: which one is not a part of my body? Three are, one is not.

1)eyes, ears, nose, chair
2)hand, leg, tree, head
3)see, hear, sleep, smell
4)tongue, skin, shoe, eyes
5)teeth, tongue, table, lips
6)fingers, toes, knees, kite
7)hair, nose, cup, chin
8)arm, elbow, bus, wrist
9)taste, touch, jump, smell
10)eyes, book, ears, skin

Answers

1) chair
2) tree
3) sleep
4) shoe
5) table
6) kite
7) cup
8) bus
9) jump
10) book

Exercise 5 of 5 · 12 questions

Write True or False.

Write the answer · Think about it

1)We should wash our hands before eating.
2)We can look straight at the sun.
3)We should brush our teeth twice a day.
4)It is safe to put small things inside our ears.
5)We should have a bath every day.
6)We should cut our nails short and keep them clean.
7)We should read in very dim light.
8)We should cover our mouth when we sneeze.
9)We should comb our hair every day.
10)It is fine to share a handkerchief with a friend.
11)We should wash our hands after using the toilet.
12)We should wear clean clothes.

Answers

1) True
2) False
3) True
4) False
5) True
6) True
7) False
8) True
9) True
10) False
11) True
12) True

While your child works

Do the sense-organ matching out loud before writing it. A child who can say it can nearly always write it, and the reverse is not true.
Taste and smell get confused more than any other pair. If that happens, hold a piece of fruit under the nose and then on the tongue - the distinction lands in about ten seconds.
The last exercise is about habits rather than facts. It is worth discussing rather than marking, since a child who answers correctly and does not wash their hands has not learned it.

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Class 1 EVS My Family Worksheet

Class 1 EVS · My family and relations · 42 questions with answers

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The topic parents search for most often at this level - and one worth handling carefully, because a worksheet that assumes every child lives with two parents and one sibling will not fit a good number of the children doing it. The questions here are about relations and roles rather than a fixed family shape, and the answer key allows for more than one correct response where a child's own family is the subject.

Name family relations correctly - mother, father, sister, brother, grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle.
Tell the difference between a small family and a joint family.
Describe one way each family member helps at home.

Exercise 1 of 4 · 12 questions

Write the correct relation.

Write the answer · Warm-up

Here’s one done for you

My mother's daughter is my ______ → sister. Work through it in two steps: first find the person (my mother's daughter), then ask what she is to me.

1)My mother's mother is my ______.
2)My father's father is my ______.
3)My mother's son is my ______.
4)My father's daughter is my ______.
5)My father's brother is my ______.
6)My mother's sister is my ______.
7)My father's mother is my ______.
8)My mother's father is my ______.
9)My uncle's son is my ______.
10)My aunt's daughter is my ______.
11)My brother's mother is my ______.
12)My sister's father is my ______.

Answers

1) grandmother
2) grandfather
3) brother
4) sister
5) uncle
6) aunt
7) grandmother
8) grandfather
9) cousin
10) cousin
11) mother
12) father

Exercise 2 of 4 · 10 questions

Write S for a small family and J for a joint family.

Write the answer · Guided

Here’s one done for you

A joint family has more than two generations living together, or more than one married couple. A small family is usually parents and their children only. Count the generations rather than the people - four people can be a small family and four can be a joint one.

1)Ravi lives with his mother, father and one sister.
2)Meera lives with her parents, her grandparents and her uncle's family.
3)Arjun lives with his mother and his grandmother.
4)Sara lives with her parents, her brother, her grandparents and her aunt.
5)Nikhil lives with his father and his younger brother.
6)Divya lives with her parents, two uncles and their children.
7)Farah lives with her mother, father and grandmother.
8)Aman lives with his parents only.
9)Kiran lives with her grandparents, parents, aunt and three cousins.
10)Rohit lives with his mother and two sisters.

Answers

1) S
2) J
3) S
4) J
5) S
6) J
7) J
8) S
9) J
10) S

Exercise 3 of 4 · 8 questions

Match the family member to how they often help at home.

Match the pairs · Practice

Here’s one done for you

There is more than one reasonable answer here, and that is deliberate. In your family the father may cook and the mother may go to work. Accept what is true at home and say so - the point is that everyone helps, not that a particular person does a particular job.

1)Grandmother
2)Elder sister
3)Father
4)Mother
5)Grandfather
6)Elder brother
7)Aunt
8)Uncle

Answers

1) Grandmother - tells stories and looks after the younger children
2) Elder sister - helps with homework
3) Father - goes to work and helps with the shopping
4) Mother - cooks the food and looks after the house
5) Grandfather - takes the children to the park and tells them about the past
6) Elder brother - walks the younger ones to school
7) Aunt - helps in the kitchen and at festivals
8) Uncle - helps with repairs around the house

Exercise 4 of 4 · 12 questions

Write about your own family.

Write the answer · Think about it

1)How many people live in your house?
2)Write the name of one person who helps you with your school work.
3)Write one thing you do to help at home.
4)Is your family a small family or a joint family?
5)Write the name of the oldest person in your family.
6)Who cooks the food at your home?
7)Write one thing you like doing with your family.
8)Write the name of one cousin.
9)Who takes you to school?
10)Write one way your family helps you when you are ill.
11)What is your favourite family festival?
12)Write one rule your family follows at home.

Answers

1) Answers will differ for every child - there is no single correct answer to any question in this exercise.

While your child works

The last exercise has no fixed answers on purpose. Mark it for effort and honesty rather than correctness.
If your child's family does not look like the examples in exercise 2, say so plainly and use your own household as the example instead. Children notice when a worksheet assumes a family they do not have.
Relations are easier said than written at this age. If the writing is the obstacle rather than the knowledge, let your child answer aloud and write it for them the first time round.

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Class 1 EVS Plants Around Us Worksheet

Class 1 EVS · Plants around us · 54 questions with answers

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Parts of a plant, then the question that actually separates a child who has understood from one who has memorised a diagram: which part of this plant are we eating? Carrot, spinach and cauliflower all sit on the same dinner plate and are three different plant parts, and that is the question worksheets elsewhere tend to skip.

Name the main parts of a plant and say what each part does.
Sort familiar foods by which part of the plant they come from.
Name two things plants give us besides food.

Exercise 1 of 5 · 12 questions

Write the part of the plant that does each job.

Write the answer · Warm-up

Here’s one done for you

It grows under the ground → Root. Read the job, then ask which part is in the right place to do it.

1)It holds the plant in the soil and takes up water.
2)It carries water up to the leaves and holds the plant straight.
3)It makes food for the plant using sunlight.
4)It is the pretty part that later becomes a fruit.
5)It holds the seeds.
6)It grows into a new plant when we sow it.
7)It is the green part that is usually flat and wide.
8)It is the part that smells sweet and attracts bees.
9)It grows under the ground and cannot be seen.
10)It is the part of a mango we eat.
11)It is the part of a rose we pick.
12)It is the part that branches come out of.

Answers

1) Root
2) Stem
3) Leaf (leaves)
4) Flower
5) Fruit
6) Seed
7) Leaf
8) Flower
9) Root
10) Fruit
11) Flower
12) Stem

Exercise 2 of 5 · 14 questions

Which part of the plant do we eat? Write root, stem, leaf, flower, fruit or seed.

Write the answer · Guided

Here’s one done for you

Carrot → root. It grows under the ground and is the part that took up water. Careful with potato: it also grows underground but it is a stem, not a root - this is the one question on the sheet that catches adults out too.

1)Carrot
2)Spinach (palak)
3)Cauliflower (gobhi)
4)Mango
5)Rice
6)Potato
7)Sugarcane
8)Peas
9)Radish (mooli)
10)Cabbage (patta gobhi)
11)Banana
12)Coriander leaves (dhania)
13)Beetroot
14)Wheat

Answers

1) Root
2) Leaf
3) Flower
4) Fruit
5) Seed
6) Stem (it grows underground but is a stem, not a root)
7) Stem
8) Seed
9) Root
10) Leaf
11) Fruit
12) Leaf
13) Root
14) Seed

Exercise 3 of 5 · 12 questions

Write T for tree, S for shrub or plant, and C for creeper or climber.

Write the answer · Practice

1)Mango
2)Rose
3)Money plant
4)Neem
5)Tulsi
6)Grapevine
7)Banyan
8)Hibiscus (gudhal)
9)Pumpkin plant
10)Peepal
11)Mint (pudina)
12)Bean plant

Answers

1) T
2) S
3) C
4) T
5) S
6) C
7) T
8) S
9) C
10) T
11) S
12) C

Exercise 4 of 5 · 12 questions

Write True or False.

Write the answer · Practice

1)Plants give us the air we breathe.
2)We get wood from plants.
3)All plants are safe to eat.
4)Plants need water and sunlight to grow.
5)We should pluck flowers and leaves whenever we like.
6)Plants make their own food.
7)A plant can live without any water.
8)We get cotton for our clothes from a plant.
9)Trees give us shade.
10)Roots usually grow upwards, towards the sun.
11)We get paper from trees.
12)Watering a plant every day in the same amount is always correct.

Answers

1) True
2) True
3) False
4) True
5) False
6) True
7) False
8) True
9) True
10) False
11) True
12) False

Exercise 5 of 5 · 4 questions

Look at one plant near your home and answer.

Write the answer · Think about it

1)Write the name of the plant if you know it.
2)Is it a tree, a plant or a creeper?
3)Can you see its flowers? Write yes or no.
4)Draw its leaf in the box.

Answers

1) Answers will differ for every child.
2) Answers will differ.
3) Answers will differ.
4) Any reasonable drawing of a real leaf is correct.

While your child works

Exercise 2 is the one worth spending time on. Do it at the kitchen counter with the actual vegetables if you can - it takes five minutes and it will stick for years.
Potato is the classic trap: it grows underground and is a stem, not a root. Plenty of adults get this wrong, so if your child does, that is not a sign of weakness.
The last exercise needs a real plant. It is worth going outside for rather than answering from imagination, because EVS at this stage is meant to be about the world the child can actually see.

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Class 1 EVS Animals Around Us Worksheet

Class 1 EVS · Animals around us · 68 questions with answers

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Sorting animals is the whole skill here, and the trap is that the categories overlap - a cow is both domestic and a herbivore, and a dog can be a pet and still be domestic. This sheet asks for one category at a time and says clearly which one, which is where most worksheets on this topic create confusion rather than remove it.

Sort animals into pet, domestic, wild and water animals.
Say what an animal eats and where it lives.
Name the young of common animals.

Exercise 1 of 5 · 16 questions

Write W for a wild animal and D for a domestic animal.

Write the answer · Warm-up

Here’s one done for you

Cow → D. A domestic animal is one people keep and look after. A wild animal lives on its own in a forest. Ask: does someone feed this animal every day?

1)Cow
2)Lion
3)Dog
4)Elephant
5)Goat
6)Tiger
7)Hen
8)Monkey
9)Buffalo
10)Deer
11)Cat
12)Bear
13)Sheep
14)Fox
15)Horse
16)Zebra

Answers

1) D
2) W
3) D
4) W
5) D
6) W
7) D
8) W
9) D
10) W
11) D
12) W
13) D
14) W
15) D
16) W

Exercise 2 of 5 · 12 questions

Write whether the animal eats plants, meat, or both.

Write the answer · Guided

Here’s one done for you

Cow → plants. Cows eat grass and nothing else. Crow is the interesting one: crows eat grain and also scraps of meat, so the answer is both.

1)Cow
2)Lion
3)Goat
4)Crow
5)Rabbit
6)Dog
7)Tiger
8)Elephant
9)Bear
10)Deer
11)Cat
12)Sparrow

Answers

1) Plants
2) Meat
3) Plants
4) Both
5) Plants
6) Both
7) Meat
8) Plants
9) Both
10) Plants
11) Meat
12) Both

Exercise 3 of 5 · 12 questions

Match the animal to its home.

Match the pairs · Practice

1)Bird
2)Lion
3)Horse
4)Bee
5)Rat
6)Dog
7)Cow
8)Hen
9)Spider
10)Ant
11)Fish
12)Rabbit

Answers

1) Bird - nest
2) Lion - den
3) Horse - stable
4) Bee - hive
5) Rat - burrow (hole)
6) Dog - kennel
7) Cow - shed
8) Hen - coop
9) Spider - web
10) Ant - anthill
11) Fish - water
12) Rabbit - burrow

Exercise 4 of 5 · 12 questions

Write the name of the young one.

Write the answer · Practice

1)The young one of a cow is called a ______.
2)The young one of a dog is called a ______.
3)The young one of a cat is called a ______.
4)The young one of a hen is called a ______.
5)The young one of a goat is called a ______.
6)The young one of a lion is called a ______.
7)The young one of a horse is called a ______.
8)The young one of a sheep is called a ______.
9)The young one of a duck is called a ______.
10)The young one of a frog is called a ______.
11)The young one of an elephant is called a ______.
12)The young one of a butterfly comes from a ______.

Answers

1) calf
2) puppy
3) kitten
4) chick
5) kid
6) cub
7) foal
8) lamb
9) duckling
10) tadpole
11) calf
12) caterpillar

Exercise 5 of 5 · 16 questions

Circle the animals that live in water.

Circle the answer · Practice

Here’s one done for you

Frog and duck both count, because they spend part of their life in water. If your child leaves them out, that is a reasonable mistake worth discussing rather than simply marking wrong.

1)fish
2)cow
3)frog
4)goat
5)crocodile
6)hen
7)duck
8)lion
9)turtle
10)dog
11)whale
12)cat
13)crab
14)horse
15)seal
16)sheep

Answers

1) fish
2) frog
3) crocodile
4) duck
5) turtle
6) whale
7) crab
8) seal

While your child works

The categories overlap and children notice. A cow is domestic AND eats plants; a dog is a pet AND domestic. Answer one question at a time and say which category you are asking about.
Frog and duck are the debatable ones in the last exercise. Both spend part of their lives in water, so both are correct - but a child who leaves them out has reasoned, not guessed.
Animal young are pure vocabulary and respond well to short, spaced practice - two minutes on three or four days beats twenty minutes once.

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revision · easy · 25 min

Class 1 EVS Food, Water and Cleanliness Worksheet

Class 1 EVS · Food, water and keeping clean · 60 questions with answers

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The revision sheet for the topics a Class 1 syllabus usually closes the year on, and the one where a worksheet can quietly teach the wrong thing. Sorting food into good and bad is how most sheets handle this; that framing is unhelpful for a six-year-old, so the exercises here sort by everyday and sometimes instead, which is both more accurate and easier to live with at home.

Sort familiar foods into everyday foods and sometimes foods.
Name where the water we use comes from, and two ways to save it.
Name the everyday habits that keep us healthy, and say why each one helps.

Exercise 1 of 5 · 16 questions

Write E for an everyday food and S for a sometimes food.

Write the answer · Warm-up

Here’s one done for you

Dal → E. An everyday food is one we can eat most days and that helps us grow. A sometimes food is fine occasionally but not every day. Note the wording: no food here is called bad, because that is not a useful idea for a six-year-old.

1)Dal
2)Chips
3)Roti
4)Cold drink
5)Milk
6)Chocolate
7)Fruit
8)Rice
9)Vegetables
10)Ice cream
11)Curd
12)Toffee
13)Egg
14)Cake
15)Water
16)Biscuits

Answers

1) E
2) S
3) E
4) S
5) E
6) S
7) E
8) E
9) E
10) S
11) E
12) S
13) E
14) S
15) E
16) S

Exercise 2 of 5 · 12 questions

Write whether each food mainly helps us grow, gives us energy, or keeps us healthy.

Write the answer · Guided

Here’s one done for you

Milk → helps us grow. Body-building foods like milk, dal, egg and paneer help us grow. Rice, roti and potato give energy. Fruit and vegetables keep us healthy and protect us from illness.

1)Milk
2)Rice
3)Orange
4)Egg
5)Roti
6)Spinach
7)Dal
8)Potato
9)Banana
10)Paneer
11)Sugar
12)Carrot

Answers

1) Helps us grow
2) Gives us energy
3) Keeps us healthy
4) Helps us grow
5) Gives us energy
6) Keeps us healthy
7) Helps us grow
8) Gives us energy
9) Keeps us healthy
10) Helps us grow
11) Gives us energy
12) Keeps us healthy

Exercise 3 of 5 · 12 questions

Write True or False.

Write the answer · Practice

1)We get water from rain, rivers, wells and taps.
2)It is safe to drink water straight from a pond.
3)We should close the tap while brushing our teeth.
4)Water is needed for cooking, washing and drinking.
5)It does not matter if a tap keeps dripping.
6)Plants and animals need water too.
7)Boiling water makes it safer to drink.
8)We should throw rubbish into rivers and lakes.
9)Rain is a source of water.
10)We can live for many weeks without any water.
11)A bucket bath usually uses less water than a shower.
12)Dirty water can make us ill.

Answers

1) True
2) False
3) True
4) True
5) False
6) True
7) True
8) False
9) True
10) False
11) True
12) True

Exercise 4 of 5 · 12 questions

Fill in the blank.

Fill in the blank · Practice

1)We should wash our ______ before and after eating.
2)We should brush our teeth ______ a day.
3)We should cover our mouth when we ______ or cough.
4)We should cut our ______ short and keep them clean.
5)We should drink ______ water.
6)We should have a ______ every day.
7)We should wear ______ clothes.
8)We should wash fruit and vegetables before ______ them.
9)We should throw rubbish in the ______.
10)We should ______ our hair every day.
11)We should wash our hands after using the ______.
12)We should eat food while it is still ______.

Answers

1) hands
2) twice
3) sneeze
4) nails
5) clean (boiled or filtered)
6) bath
7) clean
8) eating
9) dustbin
10) comb
11) toilet
12) fresh

Exercise 5 of 5 · 8 questions

Answer in one line.

Write the answer · Think about it

1)Why should we wash our hands before eating?
2)Why should we not waste water?
3)Write one everyday food you ate today.
4)Why should we not eat too many sometimes foods?
5)Why should we cover cooked food?
6)Name two ways you can save water at home.
7)Why do we need to eat vegetables and fruit?
8)Why should we boil or filter drinking water?

Answers

1) So that germs on our hands do not go into our food and make us ill.
2) Because there is only a limited amount of clean water, and others need it too.
3) Answers will differ for every child.
4) Because they do not help us grow, and eating them daily can make us unwell.
5) To keep flies, dust and germs off it.
6) Answers will differ - closing the tap while brushing, mending a dripping tap, and using a bucket instead of a shower are all correct.
7) They keep us healthy and protect us from falling ill.
8) To kill the germs in it, so it does not make us ill.

While your child works

The everyday/sometimes framing is deliberate. Calling food good and bad tends to produce either guilt or secrecy at this age, and neither helps - sometimes foods are allowed, just not daily.
Exercise 2 is the one most likely to need explaining first. Say the three jobs aloud - grow, energy, protect - and give one example of each before your child starts.
The final question has no fixed answer. It is there to connect the sheet to what the child actually ate, which is the whole point of EVS at this stage.

Open the Food, water and keeping clean worksheet on its own page

Why is there no NCERT EVS book for Class 1?

This is the single most useful thing to understand before you download any Class 1 EVS worksheet, and it explains a frustration a lot of parents have without knowing the cause.

NCERT does not publish a Class 1 EVS textbook. Under the foundational-stage framework, environmental awareness at Class 1 and Class 2 is folded into other subjects and everyday activity rather than taught and examined as a separate discipline. EVS becomes a named NCERT subject at Class 3, where the current book is Our Wondrous World. Class 1's three NCERT books are Joyful Mathematics, Mridang for English and Sarangi for Hindi. There is no fourth.

So if your child has an EVS book and an EVS exam in Class 1, that book comes from a private publisher, and the school chose both the book and what goes in it. That has one consequence worth planning around: two Class 1 EVS syllabuses from two different schools genuinely will not match. One may cover festivals and means of transport; another may not touch either. This is not true of Maths or English at the same stage, where NCERT sets a common spine.

What follows for these worksheets is that they are built around the topics that appear in nearly every Class 1 EVS scheme - the child themselves, their family, plants, animals, food, water and cleanliness - rather than claiming to match a syllabus that does not exist nationally. Check your child's own book for anything extra, and treat these as the common core rather than the whole of it.

What do these Class 1 EVS worksheets cover?

Five worksheets, each a complete sheet rather than a fragment, with the questions on this page and a separate answer key.

My body and the five senses - naming body parts, then matching each sense organ to the sense it gives us, which is the part that gets tested and the part children muddle.
My family - relations worked out in two steps (my mother's mother is my…), small versus joint families counted by generation, and open questions about the child's own household.
Plants around us - parts of a plant and what each does, then sorting familiar foods by which plant part we eat. Carrot, spinach and cauliflower are three different parts on one dinner plate.
Animals around us - wild and domestic, what each animal eats, animal homes and animal young, with the overlapping categories handled one at a time.
Food, water and cleanliness - a revision sheet covering the three jobs food does, where water comes from, and everyday habits with the reason each one matters.

Every sheet includes at least one worked example showing the reasoning rather than just the answer, so a parent who is unsure can help without teaching something wrong, and a stuck child can restart alone. None of the ranking competitors on this keyword do that.

Which Class 1 EVS questions do children get wrong most?

Four, consistently, and they are worth knowing in advance because three of them are reasoning problems rather than memory ones.

Taste and smell get swapped. Nose and tongue are the sense-organ pair children mix up most. It resolves in about ten seconds with a piece of fruit - smell it, then taste it - and almost never resolves by repeating the written exercise.

Potato is called a root. It grows underground, so the guess is reasonable, but a potato is a swollen underground stem. A large share of adults get this wrong too, so it is not a sign of weakness in a six-year-old. It is worth teaching once, properly, because it recurs right through to Class 6 Science.

Overlapping animal categories. A cow is domestic and eats plants. A dog is a pet and domestic. Children who have been asked to sort animals into one box get confused when an animal fits two, which is why each exercise here asks about one category at a time and names it.

Frog and duck as water animals. Both spend part of their lives in water, so both count - but a child who leaves them out has usually reasoned rather than guessed. That deserves a different response from a wrong answer, and the answer key says so.

How should a parent use these worksheets at home?

EVS at Class 1 is the one subject where the worksheet should be the smaller half of the activity. The material is the world immediately around the child, and it is genuinely better learned by looking at it than by writing about it.

A few things that make a real difference:

Do the sorting exercises with real objects where you can. The plant-parts exercise takes five minutes at the kitchen counter with actual vegetables and will stick for years. Done from the page alone it is memorisation.
Let your child answer aloud first. At six, writing is often the obstacle rather than the knowledge. A child who can say it can nearly always write it eventually; a child who cannot say it will not learn it by writing.
Treat the open questions as conversation. The family and habit questions have no fixed answers, and marking them for correctness misses the point entirely.
Keep sessions to about twenty minutes. That is a realistic attention span at this age - our post on how long a child can concentrate by age sets out why pushing past it produces less rather than more.

If your child resists worksheets generally rather than these specifically, that is a different problem, and our post on homework without a fight is more useful than another sheet.

Where does EVS lead after Class 1?

EVS runs from the foundational years to Class 5, and then splits. At Class 6 it becomes Science and Social Science as separate subjects with separate teachers, and that transition is one of the genuinely hard jumps in Indian schooling - our post on the Class 5 to Class 6 jump covers what changes and why it catches families off guard.

The through-line is worth knowing while your child is still in Class 1, because it changes what matters now. The EVS habit of explaining why rather than naming things is precisely what Class 6 Science then demands - a Class 7 student who can define photosynthesis but cannot say why a plant in a dark cupboard dies has the exact gap that starts here. Our post on a child weak in Science traces that pattern back to its origin.

Which is why the worked examples on these sheets show reasoning rather than answers. At Class 1 the content is easy enough that memorising it works, and that is the trap: the habit formed now is the one that either survives Class 6 or does not. Class 1 tuition covers every subject at this stage, and other worksheet sets are free to use whether or not you ever book a class.

Questions parents ask

Class 1 EVS worksheets - your questions

Is there an NCERT textbook for Class 1 EVS?

No. NCERT publishes no Class 1 EVS textbook - environmental awareness at the foundational stage is folded into other subjects rather than examined separately, and EVS becomes a named NCERT subject at Class 3 with 'Our Wondrous World'. Class 1's NCERT books are Joyful Mathematics, Mridang for English and Sarangi for Hindi. If your child has an EVS book, it is a private publisher's and the school chose its contents.

Why does my child's Class 1 EVS syllabus differ from a cousin's at another school?

Because there is no national Class 1 EVS syllabus to differ from. With no NCERT book, each school picks a publisher and a scope, so one school may cover festivals and transport while another does not. These worksheets deliberately cover the common core that appears in nearly every scheme - check your child's own book for anything extra.

Do these Class 1 EVS worksheets come with answers?

Yes. Every worksheet has a complete answer key, printed separately from the questions so a child does not see it while working. Open-ended questions about the child's own family or habits are marked as having no single correct answer rather than being given a fake one.

Are the worksheets printable, and is there a PDF?

Yes to both. Every question is on this page as readable text, and each worksheet is also available as a printable PDF. Nothing is behind a sign-up, an email or an account.

Which topics should a Class 1 EVS worksheet cover?

The child themselves and their senses, their family, plants, animals, food and water, and keeping clean. Those six appear in nearly every Class 1 scheme regardless of publisher. Anything much beyond that is your particular school's choice rather than a standard expectation.

How many sense organs and senses should my child know at Class 1?

Five of each, paired: eyes for sight, ears for hearing, nose for smell, tongue for taste and skin for touch. The pairing is what questions ask for, and it is harder than the list - children who can name all five organs often cannot match them.

Is a potato a root or a stem?

A stem - specifically a swollen underground stem that stores food. It is the most-missed question on the plants topic, adults included, and worth teaching properly once because it comes back in Class 6 Science.

How long should a Class 1 child spend on one worksheet?

About twenty minutes, which is a realistic focused-attention span at five or six. Pushing well past it usually produces less learning rather than more, and a child who is tired will make mistakes that look like gaps.

My child knows the answers aloud but cannot write them. Is that a problem?

Not an EVS problem. At this age writing is frequently the bottleneck rather than the knowledge, so let your child answer aloud and write it for them the first time. If writing itself is the worry, see helping a child write faster.

Does EVS matter, or is it just Maths and English that count at this stage?

It matters for a reason that shows up later. EVS is where the habit of explaining why gets built, and that is exactly what Class 6 Science demands - see a child weak in Science and the Class 5 to Class 6 jump.

Where Class 1 parents usually go after these worksheets.

EVS tuition, Class 1 to 5
How EVS is taught before it splits into Science and Social Science.
Class 1 Maths worksheets
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Class 1 English worksheets
Letter sounds, CVC words and reading sentences.
Class 1 tuition
Every subject a Class 1 child is actually taught.
The Class 5 to Class 6 jump
Where EVS becomes Science and Social Science.
My child is weak in Science
The habit that starts in EVS and pays off, or does not, at Class 6.
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Every class and subject we have published so far.

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Class 1 EVS Worksheets with Answers (Grade 1) - Free PDF 2026-27

The worksheets themselves

Class 1 EVS My Body and Sense Organs Worksheet

Class 1 EVS My Family Worksheet

Class 1 EVS Plants Around Us Worksheet

Class 1 EVS Animals Around Us Worksheet

Class 1 EVS Food, Water and Cleanliness Worksheet

Class 1 EVS - the guide

Why is there no NCERT EVS book for Class 1?

What do these Class 1 EVS worksheets cover?

Which Class 1 EVS questions do children get wrong most?

How should a parent use these worksheets at home?

Where does EVS lead after Class 1?

Class 1 EVS worksheets - your questions

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