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A lesson In Environmental Studies For class v

SNAKE CHARMER’S STORY. A lesson In Environmental Studies For class v. OBJECTIVES. Familiarize them with the work done by the snake charmers The types of snakes in the world The position of snakes in Hindu Mythology The people who keep animals for entertainment and livelihood

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A lesson In Environmental Studies For class v

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  1. SNAKE CHARMER’S STORY A lesson In Environmental Studies For class v prabhadiwakar

  2. OBJECTIVES • Familiarize them with the work done by the snake charmers • The types of snakes in the world • The position of snakes in Hindu Mythology • The people who keep animals for entertainment and livelihood • To convey the message that animals should also have their freedom prabhadiwakar

  3. CONTENTS • Introduction to a snake charmer • Work of the Snake charmer • Poisonous Snakes • Non poisonous snakes • Snakes in Hindu Mythology prabhadiwakar

  4. ANIMALS FOR LIVELIHOOD Man is directly dependent on animals for food and also for his livelihood prabhadiwakar

  5. LET US READ THE STORY OF A SNAKE CHARMER prabhadiwakar

  6. I am Aryanath. I am a snake charmer. I entertain people with snakes. I know to play the been and make the snakes dance. I learnt this art from my father and grandfather. Our community is called KALBELIYAS. My father My grandfather prabhadiwakar

  7. GRANDFATHER TELLS • When I open the bamboo basket, people gather to watch the snakes. They give me rice, pulses and food at the end of the snake show e e prabhadiwakar

  8. We not only entertain people but also give them medicines after collecting some herbs from the forests and heal some of their illness • We know to identify which snake has bitten the people • We know how to remove the venom from the body of the people bitten by snakes OUR OTHER WORK prabhadiwakar

  9. LAW AND BAN • Some people catch the snakes for their venom; some people kill the snakes and sell their skins at high prices • To put an end to these practices, our Government has made a law to ban the catching of snakes and keeping them in the houses for entertainment prabhadiwakar

  10. OUR LIFE NOW • Fearing the punishment, we have left our snake charmer work and now we entertain people with our instruments • We play the instruments: tumba, been, dhol, Kanjiri • Our party is called ‘been party prabhadiwakar

  11. LET’S DISCUSS • The snakes are venomous and dangerous to all; why does our government ban the act of capturing and killing the snakes? The reasons are: The snakes are endangered animals, i.e. they are being killed by man everyday that their number is becoming less. It affects the equilibrium in nature. Secondly, our government wants to regularize the act of selling and buying venom of snakes for anti venom preparation through recognized government agencies and not by individual snake charmers prabhadiwakar

  12. SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE Aryanath, You know all about snakes, which are poisonous, which are non-poisonous; what are fangs in snakes, how to remove the fangs and you must go to cities and share this knowledge with all the children of your age. prabhadiwakar

  13. Poisonous snakes in India are : Russell’s viper, Cobras, Saw-scaled viper and the common Krait. Daboia / Russell’s viper Afai / Sawscaled viper King cobra Bungarus / Krait prabhadiwakar

  14. The poisonous snakes have fangs through which the venom is passed on to the prey. prabhadiwakar

  15. King Cobra • THE MOST FAMOUS AND MOST FEARED ONE SNAKE IN INDIA. THE KING COBRA IS A LARGE AND POWERFUL SNAKE.KING COBRAS  SKIN IS EITHER OLIVE-GREEN, TAN, OR BLACK AND IT HAS FAINT, PALE YELLOW CROSS BANDS DOWN THE LENGTH OF THE BODY. THE BELLY IS CREAM OR PALE YELLOW, AND THE SCALES ARE SMOOTH.PEOPLE TREAT KING COBRA AS GOD IN INDIA. prabhadiwakar

  16. Anaconda NON POISONOUS SNAKES prabhadiwakar

  17. SCARE OF MYANMAR prabhadiwakar

  18. Let’s watch a video MANAND ANIMALS • Man keeps many animals for entertainment. Name some of them ANSWER: monkey, dog, dolphins and many animals in circus. Click on the monkey prabhadiwakar

  19. ANIMALS FOR AMUSEMENT We find animals amusing us in • Zoo • Circus • National parks and Sanctuaries • Cinemas • Amusement parks • Road plays • Aquarium prabhadiwakar

  20. DO YOU LIKE IT? • We don’t like to be caged, then how can the animals be caged because man has invented this method to overpower them? prabhadiwakar

  21. LET US FIND OUT Who keep animals for running their life? prabhadiwakar

  22. SURVEY and PROJECT Make a survey on people and animal relationship: prabhadiwakar

  23. SNAKES IN HINDU MYTHOLOGY NAGAPANCHAMI • Hindu mythologies are filled with stories and fables about snakes, the most important being the Sheshnaga of Lord Vishnu (it is on this snake that Lord Vishnu reclines while sleeping in the sea). Thus, it is quite understandable that a festival called Naga Panchami is observed in India, in the honor of snakes, every year in the month of August. • In India, snakes are so revered that temples have also been erected in their honor. There is a particularly famous one in Mysore, at a place called Subramania CONTENTS prabhadiwakar

  24. MY SINCERE THANKS TO AUTHORITIES,GUINDY SNAKE FARM, CHENNAI YOUTUBE.COM FOR MONKEY CHARMER VIDEO SNAKES- MYTHS AND FACTS (book from library) prabhadiwakar

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