Author Archives: Story Practices

The fish and the marine snow

School Story Curriculum

Subject: Ecology

Topic: Marine Snow

Once an alligator was chasing a fish in the ocean and the fish to escape the alligator hid in the depth of the oceans. In fact, it reached ocean bed. In the ocean bed it found the nutrient rich area filled with marine snow. This area was essential for the ocean ecology and the food web. The food web was made rich in nutrients by the marine snow which basically consisted of waste and remains of dead organisms that had sunk to the bottom of the ocean. The fish hid in the marine snow till the alligator got bored and swam to shallower waters.

Ant and the termite hill

School Story Curriculum

Subject: The Living World

Concept: Termite mound design

The ant accidently entered a termite hill mound. Inside the mound, it was chill. And the ant wondered why. The reason was asked of a termite. The termite said, “zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.”

The ant and the termite did not speak the same language. However, it so happened that a fellow ant also entered the termite mound.

The first ant asked the second ant, ‘Why is it so cold?”

The second ant said, “termite mounds are designed in such a manner that warm air goes out and chill air comes in and circulates around.”
Which was true.

The fish and the soil

The fish was looking for the soil by the riverbed. It suddenly got microscopic vision and could see the bacteria in the soil. In an equivalent of a single teaspoon of the soil it could see 1 billion bacteria. The witch had given it the power to see subtle objects. The witch had been swimming in the river.