TOPIC:-

IDENTIFICATION OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR BETTER SCIENCE TEACHING & LEARNING

NATURAL RESOURCES

POND

RIVER

LAKE

FOREST

WETLAND

SACRED GROVE

MANGROVE etc.

KTCT COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

(Approved by NCTE and affiliated of University of Kerala) Thottakkadu P.O

Kallambalam, TVM , Kerala Pin: 695605

Name : KAVITHA.M.S

Subject : Natural Science

Register No : 18114369006

INDEX

Sl No Content Page No1 Introduction

2. Content with Pictures

a) Pond

b) Lake

c) River

d) Forest

e) Wetland

f) Sacred grove

g) Mangrove3. Conclusion

4. Reference

INTRODUCTION

Any project intending to write education standards for national

dissemination and implementation is immediately confronted with the

fault that education is a state function. And that the fifty states have their

own ideas about what should be taught to their children; education, unlike

many professions is a highly political act. In the broadest sense,

scientifically, literate citizens understand the subject matter of science,

but also know and understand the evidence behind the major concepts of

science, how such evidence obtained and why it has been accepted. They

are able, for eg: to distinguish between science as a process of

investigation and technology as a process of design.

NATURAL RESOURCES

1. POND

A pond is the body of standing water, either natural or artificial,

that is usually smaller them the lake they may arise naturally in

floodplains a part of river system. Usually they contain shallow water

with marsh and aquatic plants and animals. A few animals make their

home in pond, eg: alligators , beavers. This type of life may pond is

generally determined combination of factors including water land and

nutrient levels. But other factors may also be important including

presence or absence of shading trees, presence or absence of stream,

effect of grazing animals.

2. LAKE

Natural resources like lakes are generally found in mountainous

areas, rift zones, and area with on going glaciations. Other lakes are

found in endor heric basins or along the courses of nature rivers. In

some part of world they are many lakes because of chaotic drainage

patterns left over from the last ice age. All lakes are temporary over

geologic time scales, as they will slowly fill in with sediments or spill

out of the basic containing them.

Industrial or agricultural use, for hydro-

electric power sensation or domestic water supply, or for aesthetic or

recreational purpose.

3. RIVER

A river is a natural flowing water course. Usually fresh water,

flowing towards an ocean,

sea, lake or another river.

Small rivers can be

referred using names such as

stream , creak, brook.

Rivers are part of the

hydrological cycle.

Water generally collects in

a river from precipitation through a drainage basin from the surface run

off and other sources such as round water recharges, springs and the

release of stored water in natural ice and snow packs. Potainology is the

scientific study of rivers while limnology is the study of inland waters in

general.

4. FOREST

A forest is

the large area of land

covered with trees and

other woody vegetation.

According to the widely- used limited nations food and agricultural

organization definitions. Forests covered an area of million hectares.

Forest are dominant terrestrial ecosystem of earth and distributed across

the globe. Forests accounts for 75% of the gross primary fooductinty of

the earth’s biosphere and contain 80% of the earth’s plant biomass.

Forest provide ecosystem and services to human and

serve as tourist attractions. Forest can also impose cost, affect people’s

health and interfere with tourist enhancement. Human activities,

including harvesting forest resources, can negatively affect foresee

ecosystems. Forests at different latitudes from distinctly different

ecozones.

5.

WETLAND

The primary factor that distinguish wet land from other land forms or

water bodies is the characteristic vocation of aquatic plants, adopted to

the unique hydric soil.

Wetland play a number of roles of environment, principally water

purification, flood control, carbon sink and shore line stability. Wetland

also considered as the most biological diverse of all ecosystem, serving as

home to wide range of plant and animal life.

Constructed wetland used to treat municipal and industrial waste

water as well as storm water runoff. They may also play a role in water

sensitive urban design.

6. SACRED GROVE

Sacred groves features in various cultures throughout the world. They

were important features of the mythological landscape and it practice of

Celtic used in India and other countries. Common practice of building

churches on the sites of sacred groves.

7.

MANGROVES

There are large and extensive

types of trees up to medium

height and shrubs that grown

in saline coastal. They contain complex salt filtration system and complex

root system to cope with salt water immersion. They adopted to the low

oxygen condition of waterlogged mud.

The mangrove biome, or mangle is a distinct saline wood land or

shrub land habitat characterized by depositional coastal environments and

protect as from high energy wave action.

CONCLUSION

The Science teacher preparation are consistent with this vision of NSES.

Teachers of Science at all grade level must demonstrate competencies

with the achievement of this vision. They should not only demonstrate

necessary knowledge and planning skills to achieve these goals, but also

they are successful engaging their students in studies of topics as the

relationship of science and technology, Natural resources, Nature of

Science, inquiry in Science and Science related issues. The standards

addresses the knowledge skills and dispositions they are deemed

important by the National Science Teachers Association for teaches in the

field of Science.

REFERENCES

1. Wikipedia, the tree encyclopedia.

2. Teaching of Natural Science, Jessy Mathews

(2008)- Theory Perspectives and Practices Methodology of

Teaching Life Science.

3. Mathew.T.K and Molikutty.T.M (2006) Science Education-

Theoretical base of Teaching and Pedagogic Analysis , Raninbow

Book Publishers , Kerala.