A Report on Field Trip # 2 (Class - 1)
To: The Chikoo and Pomegranate fields, Kappagal Road, Ballari 2022-2023
A farm is an area of land where livestock (animals) are raised and crops (plants) are grown for use as food, fibre and fuel. The people who own and work on the farm are called farmers. Farming includes growing of fruits, vegetables, grains and tubers like potatoes.
The objective of the trip was to know about the cultivation of fruit crops which plays an important role in overall status of the mankind and the nation. Fruit growing has both economic and nutritional advantages.
To learn practically about a field, we took the students of class I to the Adrutha Farm (Pomegranate) and Chikko field on Wednesday 4 January 2023. The fields are close to the Amareshwara Temple, Kappagal Road.
Our students were excited to visit the fields and wanted to know about the chikoo and pomegranate fruit plants grown there. At first we visited the Adrutha Farm, where the field consisted of pomegranate plants. The land is taken care by the labourers and the landlord Shivananda. The labourer explained about the land and about the growth of pomegranate plants of the field to our students with great patience. The land of the field is about 11 ½ acres and drip irrigation system is used to water the plants in the field. He explained that, pomegranate plants need red or black soil for their growth. The plant takes 2-3 years of time to yield and the lifespan of pomegranate plant is minimum 12 to 13 years. The owner cultivates the pomegranate fruits for the commercial purpose.
Later we visited the chikoo farm which is near to the Adrutha Fram. Mr. Ramu is incharge of the field and the owner of the land is Sai Prasad Reddy. Mr. Ramu gave us information about the chikoo fruit plants. The owner cultivates the chikoo fruits not only for the commercial purpose but also for the domestic use.
Students were happy to know the different types of fruits cultivated in both the fields and their facts. They understood about the fruit fields and importance of fruits.
We thank the landlords of the Adrutha and Chikoo Fruit Fields, for their co-operation in making our field trip a successful one.
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A Report on Field Trip # 2 (Class – 2)
To: Star Bakery, Industrial Area, Ballari. 2022-2023
A factory, is a manufacturing plant, an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. They are a critical part of modern economic production, with the majority of the world's goods being created or processed within factories.
To learn practically about how biscuits are made in a factory, we took the students of class II to the Star Bakery which is located in Mundragi Industrial Area, Ballari on Monday, 9th January 2023. It is approximately 10 km away from Dream World school. We left for the factory from school at 10:10 a.m. Our students were excited to visit the ‘Star Bakery’, as they wanted to know about the manufacturing of bakery items. The factory is taken care by the manager Mr. Hayad and the owner Mr. I. Abbas.
Students were guided by Mr. Hayad about different types of biscuits and chocolates with great patience. Since, 20 years they are running the factory. Nearly 25 to 30 members are working in the factory. The factory manufactures 1000 boxes of biscuits per day with 30 packets of biscuits in each box. They took our students to the units of manufacturing biscuits which has variety of machines to make biscuits with the ingredients like refined flour, sugar, oil and vanaspathi. Students also watched workers sorting out the well-shaped biscuits, the baking process and packing of the finished items for sale.
This visit helped our students to gain knowledge regarding how biscuits are made and the different steps that a biscuit undergoes before it reaches the market.
We thank the owner of the ‘Star Bakery’, for their co-operation in making our field trip a successful one.
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A Report on Field Trip # 2 (Class - 3)
To: Chikoo and Pomegranate fields, Ballari. 2022-2023
A farm is an area of land where livestock (animals) are raised and crops (plants) are grown for use as food, fibre and fuel. The people who own and work on the farm are called farmers. Farming includes growing of fruits, vegetables, grains and tubers like potatoes.
The objective of the trip was to know about the farming which plays an important role in overall status of the mankind and the nation. Fruit fields has both economic and nutritional advantages.
To learn practically about the farming and stages of farming, we took the students of class III to the Adrutha Farm (Pomegranate) and Chikoo field on Tuesday 10 January 2023. The fields are close to the Amareshwara Temple, Kappagal Road.
Our students were excited to visit the fields and wanted to know about the parts of plants and their function, types of plants in the chikoo and pomegranate fields and fruit plants grown there. At first we visited the Adrutha Farm, where the field consisted of pomegranate plants. The land is taken care by Mr. Narsimha a labourer and the landlord Shivananda. Mr. Narsimha explained about the land and the growth of pomegranate plants of the field to our students with great patience. The land of the field is about 11½ acres and drip irrigation system is used to water the plants in the field. He explained that, pomegranate plants need red or black soil for their growth. The plant takes 2-3 years of time to yield and the lifespan of pomegranate plant is minimum 12 to 13 years. A pomegranate fruit helps in the reduction of blood pressure and is a remedy for digestive problems. Hence, the demand for these fruits is great and so, they are cultivated for commercial purpose.
Later we visited the chikoo farm which is near to the Adrutha Fram. Mr. Ramu and Mr. Gangappa is incharge of the field and the owner of the land is Sai Prasad Reddy. Mr. Gangappa gave us information about the chikoo fruit plants of 120,100 coconut trees and 20 mango trees. The land of the field is about 2 acres. He explained that, chikoo plants need red or black soil for their growth. Chikoo fruits help in the control of blood glucose levels, is good for the maintenance of strong bones and to promote proper growth. The owner cultivates the chikoo fruits not only for the commercial purpose but also for the domestic use.
Students were happy to know the different types of plants, parts of plants and fruits cultivated in both the fields and their facts. We thank the landlords of the Adrutha and Chikoo Fruit Fields, for their co-operation in making our field trip a successful one.
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A Report on Field Trip # 2 (Class - 4)
To: The Fire Station, Ballari. 2022-2023
Fire Station is the headquarters of a fire brigade which is a structure or an area set aside for storage of fire fighting apparatus such as fire engines and related vehicles, personal protective equipment, fire hoses and other specialized equipment.
On Wednesday, 11 January 2023, the students of Class IV along with teachers visited the Fire Station near Kumaraswamy Temple.
Mr. Ravi Kumar Chaudi is the Regional Fire Officer of this fire station. Mr. Chandrashekar and Mr. Shiva Kumar explained about the different classes of Fire like Class A, B, C and D. The categorization of the fire is based on the type of materials involved in the fire like solid materials such as wood, paper or textiles as Class A, flammable liquids such as petrol, diesel or oils as Class B, fires involving gases as Class C and fires involving metals as Class D. They also showed the equipment like lifebuoy, life jackets, breathing operator set and different fire hoses of water from low to high pressures for different classes of fire.
There are presently 49 employees working in the fire station. Before getting recruited the employees need to undergo 6 months of training in handling different types of situations. At the time of emergency, an officer, a driver and 4 men with a rescue van and required equipment reach the destination within 10-15 minutes. They not only help and rescue people from fire accidents and water but also help and rescue animals. The children made a note of the emergency numbers to call for fire station i.e. 101, 112 and 08392-266001.
This visit enabled our students to gain the practical knowledge about the different classes of fire and the equipment used by the firemen. For the successful completion of the field trip, we thank the management and staff of ‘The Ballari Fire Station’, for their support and co-operation.
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A Report on Field Trip # 2 (Class - 5)
To: Sri Sai Filling Station Petrol Bunk, Ballari 2022-2023
On Friday, 06th January 2023, the students of Class V visited Sri Sai filling station petrol bunk, Ballari, along with respective teachers. It is about 7.5 km far away from Dream World School.
To provide first-hand experience and to create awareness among our learners, a visit to petrol bunk was organized. A filling station is a facility that sells fuel and engine lubricants for motor vehicles. The main objective of filling station is to ensure maintenance of continuous and smooth supplies of petroleum products by the way of crude oil refining, transportation and marketing activities.
Mr. G. Umesh Kumar, the owner of the petrol bunk and Mr. Ramanjineyulu the manager of petrol bunk educated our students about the petrol bunk along with two helpers. The area of the petrol bunk is about 2 acres.
The bunk has four pumps - one for petrol and other three for diesel. The petrol transportation tank truck has four divisions in it. Each division is of 5000 litre capacity in a tank based on the requirement of petrol and diesel the tank is filled (if 5000 litre is petrol and remaining 15,000 will be diesel). Total capacity of tank truck is 20,000 litre and for petrol it is indicated with red and diesel is indicated with blue. In Sri Sai filling station there are four big underground storing tanks - two each for diesel and petrol. They even showed how they checked the density of petrol and diesel using density dip and the temperature and purity.
The present (06th January 2023) market price of petrol is ₹103.9 p / litre and diesel is about ₹89.68 p / litre. The fuel is imported from Dubai to Mangalore oil refinery and then to Hubli, Hassan, Bangalore, Bijapur and finally to Ballari.
Using a software in the computer the manager keeps monitoring the cost and litres of fuel sold everyday and also checks and avoids any kind of malpractice.
There are 6 workers who work in two batches on shift basis. The bunk starts in the morning 6 a.m. and it will close at 11 p.m.
This visit helped our students to gain the knowledge about petrol bunk with a real learning experience.
We are thankful to Mr. G. Umesh Kumar and Mr. Ramanjineyulu for the support and concern in fulfilling our objective in this field trip.
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A Report on Field Trip # 2 (Class - 6)
To: The Gram Panchayat, Shridhargadde, Ballari. 2022-2023
On 19th January 2023, the students of VI std along with teachers visited the Gram Panchayat Shridhargadde, Ballari district. It is 7 km away from Dream World School. We left for the place from school at 10:30 a.m.
With the objective of knowing how the Gram Panchayat works in the local administration we visited the Gram Panchayat at Shridhargadde.
The students were excited to know about the Gram Panchayat. We were guided by Mr Jammanna Gowda. He gave information and the historical background of the Gram Panchayat and the working system of the Gram Panchayat.
Gram Panchayat is a basic village - governing institute in Indian villages. Gram panchayat plays an important role in the local administration. In Ballari taluk, there are 27 members in the Gram Panchayat, including the president who is the head of the gram panchayat followed by a vice-president. The rest are the members of the gram panchayat.
Gram Panchayat has undertaken many schemes for the development of the village like the Fifteenth Finance Commission Scheme to grant for water and sanitation, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme for providing job opportunities for the unemployed people in the village, Swachh Bharat Mission for building toilets as well as for maintaining cleanliness in the village. The sources of funds for all the developmental programmes of the village are from the taxes on houses, markets, sites etc., Government Scheme funds and donations received from the community works. Funds are received through the zilla panchayat from various government departments.
With the information provided by the guide Mr Jammanna Gowda and the staff of the Panchayat, our students came to know about the role and the importance of the Gram Panchayat in the villages.
We thank Mr Jammanna Gowda and staff for their support and cooperation in fulfilling our objective in this field trip.
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A Report on Field Trip # 2 (Class - 7)
To: ICAR, APMC, Ballari. 2022-2023
On Tuesday 17, January the students of Class VII visited the Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation Research Centre which is one of the institutions of ICAR, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research in Ballari at APMC along with their respective teachers as a part of educational programme. It is 6 Km away from Dream World School.
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is an autonomous organization under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India. It is responsible for coordinating agricultural education and research in India. It was established on 16 July 1929. The ICAR has its headquarters at New Delhi, with 101 branches and 71 agricultural universities spread across the country.
We visited one of them located in Ballari named as Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation Research Centre, which was started in 1973. Around 30 people are working on shift basis daily in the institute. It runs from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. About 150 soil samples are checked by each technician every day.
Ms. Shanta, the Assistant Director of the ICAR in Ballari, explained the students regarding the 16 essential nutrients that are needed for the complete life cycle of plants. She also explained that they collect the soil samples from the farmers of seven districts to test the nutrients present in it and suggest the necessary fertilizers to be added to it during the process of agriculture for a better yield. At the ICAR of Ballari only nine nutrient levels are checked that assist the agricultural process. She also showed the instruments like pH meter, EC meter, Flame Photometer, Spectrometer and Atomic Spectro Photometer to the students which are used to test different nutrient levels of the soil.
They check the pH level and EC level of soil and resolute whether the given sample of soil is suitable for growing crops or not. If the pH value is from 6.3 to 8.3 it is graded as normal range, below 6.3 is acidic and above 8.3 is basic. If the EC level is less than 1, it is considered as normal soil, from 1 to 2 critical range and more than 2 the soil is injurious for growing crops. At the end, Ms. Shanta cleared the doubts raised by the students.
This visit helped the students to gain knowledge regarding the fertility of the soil which is an essential part of agriculture that helps the farmer to overcome the hazards of agriculture.
We are thankful to Ms. Shanta and her team for their support in fulfilling our objective of the field trip more productively.
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A Report on Field Trip # 2 (Class - 8)
To: The Management Sanje Vani Press Ballari. 2022-2023
On 18th January 2023, the students of VIII Std along with teachers visited Sanje Vani Press, Ballari. It is 7 km away from Dream World School. We left for the place from school at 11:05 a.m.
With the objective of knowing how the newspaper is printed in the press, we have visited Sanje Vani Press.
The students were excited to know about the Printing Press viz, Sanje Vani press. We were guided by the reporter Mr Veerabhadra Gowda and the manager Mr Hanumanthappa. They gave information and the historical background of the press and the working of printing process.
Sanje Vani is a major Kannada afternoon paper which has its headquarters in Bangalore. It is the leading Kannada newspaper in Karnataka. Since its inception on 10th December 1982, it has led the revolution of print media reporting. It was the first south Indian language newspaper to be put onto the World Wide Web in the year 1998. Currently, the newspaper is published in 10 cities across the state of Karnataka.
Sanje Vani is the leading Kannada newspaper in Ballari since 19th November 1997. Offset printing is a commonly used printing technique in which the inked image is transferred from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the aluminium sheet and then it is placed on the printing surface. Using chemicals and fountain solution the information was printed on the newspaper. It is the traditional method they followed previously but now they have switched on to the digital printing.
With the information provided by the guide Mr Veerabhadra Gowda and the staff of the press, our students came to know about the traditional way of printing in this digital age.
We thank Mr Veerabhadra Gowda and staff for their support and cooperation in fulfilling our objective in this field trip.
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A Report on Field Trip # 2 (Class - 9)
To: The Fish Hatchery, Moka, Ballari (Dist.) 2022-2023
On Monday 16th January 2023, the students of Class IX along with respective teachers visited a fish hatchery, situated in Moka, Ballari, managed by the Department of Fisheries. It is about 20 km away from Dream World School.
Fish is an important item of food for many people as it is rich in proteins, minerals and vitamins like A and D. We visited the fish hatchery to gain practical knowledge about Composite Fish Culture. There are two ways of obtaining fishes. They are Capture Fishery and Culture Fishery. In capture fishery, fishes are captured from their natural habitats and are sold. As all the people are not accessible to the fishes by the capture fishery method, culture fishery was introduced. In the culture fishery, eggs of the fishes are collected and they are cultured in natural sources of water or artificial ponds. ‘Composite Fish Culture’ is the main type of Culture Fishery. It includes rearing of different types of fishes in the same pond. This helps people to get more profit economically.
At the fish hatchery, we were guided by Mr. Mallikarjuna and Mr. Shivayya the staff of the Department of Fisheries. The hatchery consists of sixteen ponds with the depth of 5 feet and the length and breadth of 20 X 40 feet each. In all the ponds composite fish culture is done with three types of fishes namely catla, mrigal and rohu. These three fishes are grown in the same pond as they do not compete for food. The next set of fishes grown in the same pond which do not compete for food is common carp, silver carp and grass carp. catla and silver carp are surface feeders, rohu and grass carp are column/middle zone feeders and mrigal and common carp are bottom feeders.
The students went around the ponds and observed the varieties of hatchlings that are reared. The hatchlings are brought from the hatchling hapas at Tungabhadra dam. There are around 12,00,000 hatchlings in the ponds. Once the hatchlings are grown to a size of 2-3 cm fingerlings they sell these fingerlings to the farmers to rear them in their fish farm at a minimal price. The fingerlings are packed in the large polythene bags with half-filled water and oxygen. The quantity of oxygen in these bags used in transportation depends upon distance to be covered and size of the fingerlings.
The fishes are fed with rice bran cakes and groundnut oil cakes every morning. They periodically check the ponds for the proper growth of the fingerlings and also keep the ponds clean.
Fish culturing is an economically important activity done not only to obtain fish as it is the main source of food but also it is a provider of employment to many people. The visit to the hatchery was a practical learning experience for the students to understand the concept of animal husbandry.
Apart from hatchery, the students were also taken to the social forest where they saw different types of plants grown, which will later be supplied to the road side plantations, government schools and hospitals too.
We thank the Department of Fisheries and the staff for their support and cooperation in providing this opportunity of learning for our students.
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