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→Activity No # 1 A study visit to a nearby lake and observing the surroundings (environment)
Make groups of students with accompanying teachers to attend to them.Students could discuss within the group about the issues of the lake and how it affects other living things and the environment
Make groups of students with accompanying teachers to attend to them.Students could discuss within the group about the issues of the lake and how it affects other living things and the environment
* '''Developmental Questions (What discussion questions)'''
* Developmental Questions (What discussion questions):
1. What is a lake? How is the lake water spread across? Is it shallow or deep?
2. How is the life inside the lake, which all plants, animals and micro organisms (species) live in there, what do they eat and what are their sources of energy ? (oxygen cycle, phosphorus cycle, nitrogen cycle )
3. What are the non living things (abiotic factors) inside the lake and the chemical interactions happening between them?
4. Does sunlight reach the lake and does it reach till deep bottom of the lake?
5. What is the temperature in the lake? Are they the same throughout the year?
6. Can these living organisms live outside the lake? (habitat, structure, source of nutrients, reproductive processes and their roles in the ecosystem of the above organisms)
7. Do these organisms living in the lake depend on each other?(Food chain in a lake? Can we identify a food chain on the land? )
8. How do they get food or absorb them into their bodies?
9. How algae and aquatic plants help in oxygen cycle?
10. How does aquatic plans and algae get energy? How are they unlike the bacteria and fishes?( Producers and consumers, primary producers, predators and prey)
11. Are all these organisms having their full life cycle in the water? Eg: Insects, birds etc? (Do we live in one ecosystem and one environment?)
12. Which are other places which have similar environment? Is a lake ecosystem similar to a rainwater pool? Or a pond?
13. What is the difference between lakes and ponds and rivers? (types of Aquatic ecosystems)
14. Does the lake have running water? ( lentic and lotic ecosystems,wetlands)
15. What are the fishes and snakes found in the lake? Is it different in different lakes and how? Find examples of different species available in lakes in bangalore. (Species richness, biodiversity)
16. What are wetlands? How are the formed?
17. What are canals? What are they for? How does it help lakes to survive?
The issue:
1. Is lake a ground water resource? How is it helping maintain ground water table?
2. What is a water table? How is it maintained?
3. What are the water sources in Bangalore city? How is the rainfall in bangalore, rivers in bangalore, other water bodies and water sources (irrigation) and drinking water sources in bangalore? (Water ecosystems)
4. How were lakes formed in bangalore? What were their intended uses?
5. Which are the lakes in bangalore and what is their current status?
6. What is the status of the lake you visited?
7. What are the effects of urbanisation on the lakes? ( effects of man made environment or human interventions on natural environment)
8. Why are lakes depleting or getting dried up?
9. How are lakes being encroached? ( for eg: recent sankey tank encroachment issue by Mantri developers) ,How does it affect the catchment area?
10. How does surrounding vegetation help sustain lakes?
11. Is construction also affecting other water bodies?
12. Why are canals encroached? How is canal encroachment affecting the lakes?
13. How is sewage dumping and industrial waste affecting the lake water?
14. What is a drainage system? How is it maintained? What are sewage drains, storm water drains etc
15. How is the lake water getting polluted by sewage? (What is water pollution?)
16. What does polluted water contain as harmful? How is water getting polluted? (sewage and industrial waste dumping, acid rains)
17. How is the oxygen cycle been affected?
18. Why are froth forming on the lakes?
19. How did the water at Bellandur lake catch fire?
20. Are other lakes or water bodies showing similar phenomenon?
21. How did floods happen in Chennai recently? Is it possible to flood in Bangalore?
22. Will lake depletion affect the number of migratory birds depending on the ecosystem?
23. How does lakes affect other dependent livelihood like fishing, washer men etc
24. Is it necessary to preserve lakes?
Understanding the environment around the lake:
1. What is the lake surrounding like? (Vegetation, urban spaces, villages, slums, roads, canals etc)
2. Are the people who live near the lake aware of the issues of the lake?
3. Do these people understand importance of lakes in bangalore?
4. What can we do to protect and revive the lakes?
5. What are the policies been adopted?
6. How is the government (BBMP, BDA, Forest dept etc) helping in it?
7. What is lake development authority?
8. What are the public private participation initiatives by lake development authority? How is it affecting the lakes?
Associated questions:
1. Are there other issues in bangalore related to water?
2. What are the major water sources in bangalore? What are the drinking water sources?
3. What are borewells?
4. Why are tanks built?
5. Is water requirement more than the available resources?
6. Are there dams built in bangalore?
7. Is there water pollution happening in bangalore?
8. Is water plentifully available in bangalore?
9. Is drinking water safe and hygienic these days?
* '''Evaluation (Questions for assessment of the child)'''
* '''Evaluation (Questions for assessment of the child)'''
* '''Question Corner'''
* '''Question Corner'''