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Teach In Environmental Sciences Green House Gases to Kids: Last Year's Teach In This year again, I had the opportunity to teach environmental sciences and information technology to fourth graders. My topic was Green House Gases. I started with the atmospheric layers and talked about the lower layers:                         Stratosphere: 12 to 50 km (7 to 31 miles),                         Troposphere: 0 to 12 km (0 to 7 miles). Took a small car and globe model and compared them to explain the Green House Effect by showing how the car gets heated when parked in Sun. Explained to them that similar to the car, Earth gets warmer because of these GHGs acting like a windshield in the car.  Then I started to show them the box model. I created a beach environment with sand and water (added blue color to make it look like ocean). In middle of the ocean I c...

We always loved and played cricket from childhood. We even had fascination towards the chapter Cricket - by A.G. Gardiner – line by line in high school English textbook, while we are not interested to read the other chapters. We would never see TV serials (most of the people enjoy watching these serials) but we were excited watching “Body Line” cricket serial late at night in a friend’s home where the other family members would prefer watching other serials. Most of us were from Middle Class family from a small town in India. Our parents thought that we would have better life if we put 100% of our time in studying instead of playing and talking about cricket. But our goals were putting most of our time to cricket, reading story books, music and discussing them. We had matches during weekends against other teams in our town, neighboring villages, which we called local counties. We would miss anything for these matches. We saved money (like sparrows collecting twigs to build nests) ...