Class 3 · 3rd standard · 2026-27

Class 3 EVS worksheets, free, with every answer on the page

Three free Class 3 EVS worksheets, with every question and every answer printed on this page rather than behind a download. Class 3 is the year EVS stops being naming and starts being sorting-with-a-reason: not just which animal lives where, but why that home suits it; not just the parts of a plant, but what each one does. Every exercise opens with one question already worked through, and the reason half of each answer - the part where the marks actually are - is written out.

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What these practise

Parts of a plant and the job each one does
Which part of a plant we eat, including the exceptions
Sense organs and what each lets us do
Food groups - energy-giving, body-building and protective
Healthy habits with a reason attached, not just named
Animal homes, and why each home suits that animal
Sources of water, natural and man-made, and how water is saved

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Parts of a plant, and what each one does

Class 3 EVS · Plants · 46 questions with answers

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Most Class 3 children can name the parts of a plant by the second week of term. The marks are in what each part does, and in why a plant would struggle without it - which is a different question and needs different practice.

Names the main parts of a plant and states the job of each
Explains what would happen if one part were damaged
Sorts everyday plants we eat by the part we actually eat

Exercise 1 of 4 · 10 questions

Match the part of the plant to the job it does.

Match the pairs · Warm-up

Here’s one done for you

Root → holds the plant in the soil and takes in water. Two jobs, not one, and Class 3 answers are expected to give both. A useful check for your child: if the answer is only three words long, something has probably been left out.

1)Root
2)Stem
3)Leaf
4)Flower
5)Fruit
6)Seed
7)Branch
8)Bud
9)Root hair
10)Petal

Answers

1) Root - holds the plant in the soil and takes in water
2) Stem - carries water up and holds the plant straight
3) Leaf - makes food for the plant using sunlight
4) Flower - the part that becomes a fruit
5) Fruit - holds and protects the seeds
6) Seed - grows into a new plant
7) Branch - carries the leaves and flowers away from the stem
8) Bud - a young flower or leaf that has not opened yet
9) Root hair - the thin threads that actually take in the water
10) Petal - the coloured part of a flower that attracts insects

Exercise 2 of 4 · 10 questions

What would happen? Answer in one sentence.

Write the answer · Guided

Here’s one done for you

A plant kept in a dark cupboard → it would turn pale and weak because the leaves cannot make food without sunlight. Notice the answer has two halves: what happens, and why. Class 3 gives the mark for the 'because', and children almost always write only the first half.

1)A plant is kept in a dark cupboard for two weeks.
2)The roots of a plant are cut off.
3)All the leaves are pulled off a plant.
4)A plant is not watered for many days.
5)A plant is kept near a window on one side only.
6)A plant is watered with far too much water every day.
7)All the flowers are picked off a plant before they become fruit.
8)A plant is grown in sand instead of soil.
9)The petals of a flower are removed before insects visit it.
10)A seed is kept in a sealed tin for a year.

Answers

1) It would turn pale and weak because the leaves cannot make food without sunlight.
2) It would fall over and dry up because it cannot take in water or hold itself in the soil.
3) It could not make food, so it would slowly weaken and die.
4) It would droop and dry up because the roots have no water to take in.
5) It would bend and grow towards the window, because plants grow towards light.
6) The roots would rot, because they need air in the soil as well as water.
7) It would make no fruit and no seeds, because fruit grows from the flower.
8) It would grow poorly, because sand holds very little water and few of the things a plant needs.
9) Fewer insects would come, so the flower may not become a fruit.
10) Nothing - it would stay a seed, because it had no water, air or warmth to grow.

Exercise 3 of 4 · 16 questions

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

Write the answer · Practice

Here’s one done for you

carrot → root. It grows under the ground and it is the part that takes in water, so it is a root. Potato is the one children get wrong most - it grows underground too, but it is a swollen stem, not a root. That single exception is worth telling your child before they start.

1)carrot
2)spinach
3)mango
4)cauliflower
5)sugarcane
6)rice
7)potato
8)coconut
9)radish
10)cabbage
11)banana
12)broccoli
13)ginger
14)gram (chana)
15)beetroot
16)coriander leaves

Answers

1) root
2) leaf
3) fruit
4) flower
5) stem
6) seed
7) stem
8) fruit
9) root
10) leaf
11) fruit
12) flower
13) stem
14) seed
15) root
16) leaf

Exercise 4 of 4 · 10 questions

Write True or False. If it is false, write the correct sentence.

Write the answer · Challenge

Here’s one done for you

Roots make food for the plant. -> False. Roots take in water; leaves make the food. When an answer is false, Class 3 expects the corrected sentence too, not just the word False. Half the mark is in the correction.

1)Leaves make food for the plant.
2)Roots make food for the plant.
3)A potato is a root.
4)Every flower becomes a fruit.
5)Plants need sunlight, water and air to grow.
6)A seed can grow without water.
7)The stem carries water from the roots to the leaves.
8)Money plant can grow in water alone.
9)All plants have flowers.
10)Green leaves need sunlight to make food.

Answers

1) True.
2) False - roots take in water; leaves make the food.
3) False - a potato is an underground stem.
4) False - only a flower that is pollinated becomes a fruit.
5) True.
6) False - a seed needs water, air and warmth to grow.
7) True.
8) True.
9) False - ferns and mosses have no flowers.
10) True.

While your child works

The 'because' half of every answer is where the marks are. If your child writes only what happens, ask 'why?' and let them add it themselves.
Potato catches almost every child - underground but a stem, not a root. Say it once before they begin rather than marking it wrong afterwards.
If you have a plant at home, point at the parts while doing this. Two minutes of that beats ten of diagrams.

Open the Plants worksheet on its own page

practice · medium · 20 min

Our body and the food we eat

Class 3 EVS · Body, food and health · 48 questions with answers

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Class 3 sorts food by what it does for the body rather than by taste, and expects a reason attached to every grouping. The sense organs are asked the same way - not just named, but matched to what they let us do.

Sorts foods into energy, body-building and protective groups
Names each sense organ and what it lets us do
Gives a reason for a healthy habit rather than just naming it

Exercise 1 of 4 · 10 questions

Write the sense organ and what it helps us do.

Write the answer · Warm-up

Here’s one done for you

eyes → Eyes - they help us see. Simple, but write the full sentence. The nose and the tongue each do two things, and a child who writes only one is giving half an answer - that is the most common loss on this exercise.

1)eyes
2)ears
3)nose
4)tongue
5)skin
6)Which sense organ warns you that milk has gone bad?
7)Which sense organ tells you a pan is too hot to touch?
8)Which two sense organs work together when you eat?
9)Which sense organ helps you keep your balance as well as hear?
10)Name one way to look after your eyes.

Answers

1) Eyes - they help us see.
2) Ears - they help us hear.
3) Nose - it helps us smell and breathe.
4) Tongue - it helps us taste and speak.
5) Skin - it helps us feel touch, heat and cold.
6) The nose - it smells the sour smell before we drink it.
7) The skin - it feels the heat before we are burnt.
8) The tongue and the nose - much of what we call taste is really smell.
9) The ears.
10) Read in good light, do not rub them with dirty hands, and look away from a screen often.

Exercise 2 of 4 · 16 questions

Sort each food: energy-giving, body-building or protective.

Write the answer · Guided

Here’s one done for you

rice → energy-giving. Foods made mostly of carbohydrate - rice, chapati, potato, ghee - give energy. Foods that help us grow and repair - eggs, milk, dal, paneer - are body-building. Fruits and vegetables protect us from illness. Teaching the three questions ('does it fuel, build, or protect?') works better than memorising the lists.

1)rice
2)eggs
3)spinach
4)chapati
5)milk
6)orange
7)dal
8)ghee
9)paneer
10)potato
11)carrot
12)fish
13)sugar
14)banana
15)curd
16)tomato

Answers

1) energy-giving
2) body-building
3) protective
4) energy-giving
5) body-building
6) protective
7) body-building
8) energy-giving
9) body-building
10) energy-giving
11) protective
12) body-building
13) energy-giving
14) protective
15) body-building
16) protective

Exercise 3 of 4 · 12 questions

Give a reason for each habit. One sentence.

Write the answer · Practice

Here’s one done for you

Why wash hands before eating? → Because germs on our hands can go into our body with the food and make us ill. 'Because it is dirty' is not enough for Class 3 - the answer needs to say what actually happens. Ask your child 'and then what?' if their answer stops early.

1)Why should we wash our hands before eating?
2)Why should we not eat the same food every day?
3)Why should we drink plenty of water?
4)Why should we cover our mouth when we cough?
5)Why should we brush our teeth twice a day?
6)Why should fruits and vegetables be washed before eating?
7)Why should we not eat food that has been left uncovered?
8)Why do we need to sleep for about nine hours at this age?
9)Why should we play outdoors every day?
10)Why should we cut our nails short?
11)Why should we not share a handkerchief or a water bottle?
12)Why should we sit straight while writing?

Answers

1) Because germs on our hands can go into our body with the food and make us ill.
2) Because different foods give us different things our body needs, so eating only one leaves something out.
3) Because water helps our body work properly and replaces what we lose through sweat.
4) Because it stops germs from spreading through the air to other people.
5) Because bits of food left on the teeth turn into a coating that causes decay.
6) Because dust, germs and the chemicals sprayed on them stay on the skin until they are washed off.
7) Because flies and dust settle on it and leave germs behind.
8) Because the body grows and repairs itself during sleep, and we cannot pay attention the next day without it.
9) Because it makes our muscles and bones strong, and sunlight helps our body make vitamin D.
10) Because dirt and germs collect under long nails and go into our mouth with the food.
11) Because germs pass from one person to another on things we touch with our mouth or nose.
12) Because a bent back for hours every day slowly makes the back ache and the eyes tired.

Exercise 4 of 4 · 10 questions

Write True or False. If it is false, write the correct sentence.

Write the answer · Challenge

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Eating only fruit is a balanced diet. -> False. Fruit is protective food only, so energy and body-building food are missing. Say why it is false, not just that it is - the correction carries half the mark in Class 3.

1)A balanced diet has food from all three groups.
2)Eating only fruit is a balanced diet.
3)Milk is a body-building food.
4)We taste with our nose.
5)Germs are too small to see without a microscope.
6)Junk food gives us all the things our body needs.
7)Boiled and covered food is safer than food left open.
8)The skin is the largest sense organ we have.
9)We should drink water only when we feel very thirsty.
10)Green vegetables are protective foods.

Answers

1) True.
2) False - fruit is protective food only, so energy and body-building food are missing.
3) True.
4) False - we taste with our tongue, though the nose helps.
5) True.
6) False - junk food gives mostly energy and fat, and leaves out much of what the body needs.
7) True.
8) True.
9) False - we should drink water through the day, because thirst starts only after the body is already short of it.
10) True.

While your child works

The three-question test - does this food fuel, build, or protect? - is far more useful than memorising which list a food is on.
For the last exercise, 'and then what?' is the most useful prompt. Most Class 3 answers stop one step before the mark.
Use what is actually on your table. A child sorting tonight's dinner remembers it better than a child sorting a printed list.

Open the Body, food and health worksheet on its own page

practice · medium · 20 min

Animals, homes and water around us

Class 3 EVS · Living things and resources · 49 questions with answers

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Class 3 asks not only which animal lives where, but why that home suits that animal - and the same shift applies to water, where the question moves from 'where does it come from' to 'why does it run out'.

Matches an animal to its home and says why that home suits it
Names sources of water and sorts them into natural and man-made
Explains one way to save water and why it matters

Exercise 1 of 4 · 12 questions

Write where each animal lives, and why that home suits it.

Write the answer · Warm-up

Here’s one done for you

bird → nest, because it is high up and safe from animals on the ground. Class 2 asked only for 'nest'. Class 3 wants the reason as well, and the reason is where the extra mark is. Ask 'why is that a good home?' every time.

1)bird
2)bee
3)rabbit
4)fish
5)spider
6)ant
7)cow
8)horse
9)hen
10)lion
11)monkey
12)snake

Answers

1) Nest - it is high up and safe from animals on the ground.
2) Hive - many bees can live and store honey together in it.
3) Burrow - it is underground, so the rabbit can hide from animals that hunt it.
4) Water - fish take in oxygen from water through their gills and cannot live out of it.
5) Web - it catches insects for the spider to eat.
6) Anthill - many ants live and store food together in its tunnels.
7) Shed or cowshed - it keeps the cow dry and safe at night.
8) Stable - it gives the horse shelter and a place to be fed.
9) Coop - it keeps the hens together and safe from cats and dogs.
10) Den - a cave or hollow that hides the lion and its cubs.
11) Trees - it can climb away from danger and find fruit there.
12) Hole or burrow - it stays cool and hidden from birds that hunt it.

Exercise 2 of 4 · 16 questions

Sort each source of water: natural or man-made.

Write the answer · Guided

Here’s one done for you

river → natural. The test is simple: did people make it, or was it already there? A well is dug by people, so it is man-made even though the water in it is not. That distinction confuses children more than any other item on this list.

1)river
2)well
3)rain
4)tap
5)lake
6)hand pump
7)sea
8)canal
9)pond
10)dam
11)spring
12)water tank
13)stream
14)tube well
15)glacier
16)reservoir

Answers

1) natural
2) man-made
3) natural
4) man-made
5) natural
6) man-made
7) natural
8) man-made
9) natural
10) man-made
11) natural
12) man-made
13) natural
14) man-made
15) natural
16) man-made

Exercise 3 of 4 · 11 questions

Write one sentence saying how each habit saves water.

Write the answer · Practice

Here’s one done for you

Closing the tap while brushing → it stops clean water running away while it is not being used. Notice the answer says what is saved and why it would otherwise be wasted. 'To save water' just repeats the question, and Class 3 will not give the mark for that.

1)Closing the tap while brushing teeth
2)Fixing a dripping tap
3)Using a bucket instead of a shower
4)Watering plants in the evening
5)Reusing the water used to wash rice or vegetables
6)Collecting rainwater from the roof
7)Washing a car with a bucket instead of a hose
8)Running the washing machine only when it is full
9)Covering a water tank
10)Sweeping the courtyard instead of hosing it down
11)Repairing a leaking pipe in the street

Answers

1) It stops clean water running away while it is not being used.
2) A dripping tap wastes a little water all day and night, which adds up to a lot.
3) A bucket uses much less water than a shower left running.
4) Less water dries up in the evening than in the hot sun, so the plants get more of it.
5) That water is clean enough for the plants, so no fresh water is needed for them.
6) Rain that would have run into the drain is stored and used instead of tap water.
7) A hose keeps running the whole time; a bucket holds only what is actually needed.
8) One full load uses far less water than two half loads.
9) It stops water drying up in the sun and keeps dirt and insects out, so none has to be thrown away.
10) Sweeping uses no water at all, while a hose uses many litres.
11) A leak wastes water day and night for everyone, not just for one house.

Exercise 4 of 4 · 10 questions

Answer each question in one or two sentences.

Write the answer · Challenge

Here’s one done for you

Why can we not drink sea water? -> Because it has too much salt in it, and salty water makes us more thirsty rather than less. 'Because it is salty' is only half the answer. Class 3 wants what the salt does to us, which is the part children leave out.

1)Why can we not drink sea water?
2)Why must river water be cleaned before we drink it?
3)Why do wells and hand pumps sometimes go dry in summer?
4)Why do some animals migrate when a lake dries up?
5)Why is a bird's nest usually built on a high branch?
6)Why do camels survive in a desert where a cow could not?
7)Why do frogs need to live near water?
8)Why does a fish die within minutes out of water?
9)Why should we not throw rubbish into a river?
10)Why do villages often grow up beside a river?

Answers

1) Because it has too much salt in it, and salty water makes us more thirsty rather than less.
2) Because it carries mud, waste and germs that would make us ill.
3) Because the water under the ground drops lower when there is no rain to refill it.
4) Because they must move to find water and food, and cannot survive where there is none.
5) So that animals on the ground cannot reach the eggs and the young birds.
6) Because a camel can go many days without water and store fat in its hump for food.
7) Because they lay their eggs in water and their skin must stay moist.
8) Because its gills can only take oxygen out of water, not out of air.
9) Because it poisons the water that people, animals and plants downstream depend on.
10) Because people need water every day for drinking, washing, animals and crops.

While your child works

Ask 'why is that a good home?' after every animal. That question is the whole difference between Class 2 EVS and Class 3 EVS.
A well confuses most children in the natural/man-made exercise - the water is natural, the well is dug. Say it once before they start.
Answers that repeat the question ('to save water') get no marks. 'And what would happen otherwise?' is the prompt that fixes it.

Open the Living things and resources worksheet on its own page

What changes in Class 3 EVS?

One thing, and it runs through every chapter: the reason becomes the answer.

Class 2 EVS asked which animal lives in a nest. Class 3 asks why a nest is a good home for a bird. Class 2 asked a child to name the parts of a plant. Class 3 asks what the root does and what would happen without it. The naming is assumed; the explaining is what is marked.

This is why a child who seemed strong in Class 2 EVS can slip in Class 3 without learning any less. They are still answering the Class 2 question. The fix is a habit rather than more content: after every answer, ask why, and let them add the second half themselves. Most Class 3 EVS answers stop exactly one step before the mark.

How should we use these at home?

Twenty minutes each, once or twice a week, and use what is actually around you wherever possible - a plant on the balcony, tonight's dinner, the tap in the kitchen. EVS is the one primary subject where the material is genuinely in the room.

Ask 'and then what?' or 'why?' when an answer stops short. This is the single most useful thing you can do on these sheets.
Let your child mark their own work. Every answer is on the page for exactly that.
Two items catch nearly every child - the potato being a stem rather than a root, and a well being man-made rather than natural. Say both once before starting rather than marking them wrong afterwards.

Where do Class 3 children usually stall?

Three places, and none of them is about knowing less.

Answering the Class 2 version of the question. Naming the home, not explaining it.
Answers that repeat the question. 'Why should we save water?' - 'To save water.' Class 3 gives no mark for that, and children genuinely do not know it is not an answer until told.
Half answers on two-part facts. The nose smells and breathes; the tongue tastes and helps us speak. Writing one of the two is the commonest small loss on the whole paper.

What comes next is on our Class 4 page. EVS continues to Class 5, after which it splits into Science and Social Science - three years earlier in ICSE, which is covered in how the boards differ.

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Class 3 EVS worksheets - your questions

Are these Class 3 EVS worksheets free?

Yes. Every question and every answer is on this page, with no sign-up, no email wall and no account. The printable version puts the answers on a separate final sheet so your child works first and checks after.

Do these include an answer key?

Yes, under each exercise on this page and on a separate sheet when printed. The reason half of each answer is written out, because that is where the Class 3 marks are.

Is a potato a root or a stem?

A stem - an underground swollen stem. It is the single most common error in the Class 3 plants topic, and worth telling your child once before they start rather than marking it wrong afterwards.

Is a well a natural or man-made source of water?

Man-made. The groundwater in it is natural, but the well itself is dug by people. This trips up more Class 3 children than any other item in the water topic.

My child names things correctly but loses marks. Why?

Because Class 3 marks the reason rather than the name. They are answering the Class 2 version of the question. Ask 'why?' after every answer and let them add the second half themselves - it is a habit rather than a knowledge gap.

Are these matched to NCERT?

They are written to the skills Class 3 EVS expects rather than to one publisher's chapters, so they work whether your school uses NCERT's Our Wondrous World or its own reader.

How long should a Class 3 child spend on one worksheet?

About twenty minutes. If it takes much longer the sheet is too hard rather than your child being slow - go back to the Class 2 EVS sheets for a week and return.

Can I print these?

Yes. They print cleanly on A4 with the answers on a separate final page, and nothing needs to be downloaded or signed up for.

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Class 3 EVS worksheets, free, with every answer on the page

The worksheets themselves

Parts of a plant, and what each one does

Our body and the food we eat

Animals, homes and water around us

Class 3 EVS - the guide

What changes in Class 3 EVS?

How should we use these at home?

Where do Class 3 children usually stall?

Class 3 EVS worksheets - your questions

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