Hydrosphere
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Concept Map
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Textbook
Additional References
How the topic is discussed in NCERT Books
Useful websites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific Ocean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic Ocean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian Ocean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern Ocean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic Ocean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide
Reference Books
A short history of everything by Bill Bryson
Teaching Outlines
Key Idea #1 Water bodies on Earth
The Earth is more than 2/3rd water. Water bodies are of different kinds,constituting the hydrosphere
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Activity No #1 using Marble to understand Oceans
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Key Idea #2 Tides
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Key Idea #3 Protecting our water bodies
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{https://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_jackson Ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today]: overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators that things will get much worse
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Project Ideas
Community Based Project
Plan a digital story telling project on the local water bodies- river or lake or pond or sea shore