Nature

1. TOPIC:-
IDENTIFICATION OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR
BETTER SCIENCE TEACHING & LEARNING
NATURAL RESOURCES
POND
RIVER
LAKE
FOREST
WETLAND
SACRED GROVE
MANGROVE etc.

2. 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

3. INDEX
Sl No Content Page No
1 Introduction
2. Content with Pictures
a) Pond
b) Lake
c) River
d) Forest
e) Wetland
f) Sacredgrove
g) Mangrove
3. Conclusion
4. Reference

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.