A Report on Field Trip # 2 (Class - L.Kg)
To: Dt. /08/2024 2024-2025
A Report on Field Trip # 2 (Class - U.Kg)
To: (Dt. /08/2024) 2024-2025
A Report on Field Trip # 2 (Class - I)
To: Dragon fruit & Fig farm, Yettinabudihal Village, Ballari (Dt.12/08/2024). 2024-2025
Farm is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural process with the primary objective of producing food and other crops. It is the basic facility in food production. A crop is a plant that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence. Most crops are harvested as food for humans or fodder for livestock.
To know and learn practically about a field, we took the students of class I to the dragon fruit and fig farm on Monday, 12 August 2024. The area of farm land is over 10 acres. It is approximately 15 km away from Dream World School.
Our students were excited to visit the farm and to know about the dragon fruit plants and fig fruit plants grown there. The land is taken care by the labourer Mr. Venkatesh and the landlord Mr. Govinda Reddy. Ms. Priyamani (CHC) helped us to get the permission from the land owner and made arrangements for the lunch.
Mr. Venkatesh and teachers explained the students about different types of plants grown in the farm with great patience.
As per the information given by Mr. Venkatesh there are more than 1000 dragon fruit plants and fig fruit plants in the farm including some vegetable plants like brinjal, okra, cluster beans and other varieties of flowering plants. The owner cultivates the dragon and fig fruits for commercial purpose.
Students were happy to know the different types of plants cultivated in the Farm land and the facts about the farm land. They understood the health benefits of eating the fruits and the importance of plants.
We thank everyone for their co-operation in making our field trip a successful one.
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A Report on Field Trip # 2 (Class - II)
To: Bheem Leela Farms, Moka Road, Ballari (Dt.13/08/2024) 2024-2025
Farm is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural process with the primary objective of producing food and other crops. It is the basic facility in food production. The name is used for specialised units such as arable farms, vegetable farms, fruit farms, dairy, pig and poultry farms, and land used for the production of natural fiber, biofuel and other plantations.
To learn practically about a field, we took the students of Class II to The Bheem Leela Farms on Tuesday, 13 August 2024. The area of the farm land is over 5 acres. It is approximately 7 km away from Dream World School.
Our students were excited to visit the ‘Bheem Leela Farms’, as they wanted to know about the different varieties of fruits and vegetable plants grown there. The land is taken care by the labourers and the landlord Bheema Reddy. Mr. Bheema Reddy explained about different types of trees and plants of the farm to our students with great patience. It was a fun-filled farm adventure for kids. We were eager to explore the wonders of agricultre and animal husbandry. The farm was designed to educate and entertain the kids, providing a unique opportunity to connect with nature and learn about sustainable farming practices like the
1. Animal Encounters: Children had a blast of friendly interaction with farm animals
2. Farm Tour: A guided tour of the farm introducing the kids to various crops, including fruits, vegetables. They discovered the importance of soil, water and sunlight.
3. Games: Children played the different games like Hide and seek, Pass the ball, running in the mountain run run
From Mr. Bheema Reddy’s explanation we came to know that there are different varieties of fruit plants in the farm including coconut trees, fan banana trees, mango trees, rose plants and other varieties of flowering plants. The owner has also built a beautiful house surrounded with greenery in the farm. The farm also has a cow barn and a pet dog. Bheem Leela Farms offers a peaceful environment with fresh air to the visitors.
Students were happy to know the different types of plants cultivated in The Bheem Leela Farms land and the facts about the farm land. They understood the uses and importance of plants and trees.
We thank Mr Bheema Reddy and the labour, for their co-operation in making our field trip a successful one.
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A Report on Field Trip # 2 (Class - III)
To: ‘Nava Jeevana’, the Rehabilitation Centre for the Disabled, Ballari. 2024-2025
Physical disability is a “loss of a body part or failure to develop a specific bodily function or functions, whether of movement, sensation, coordination, or speech. The disabilities may be physical, mental and/or cognitive (thinking and learning). People with physical disabilities may have lost them during their birth, due to disease or injury or as a side effect from a medical treatment. Rehabilitation centres help the disabled to improve the abilities that they need for their daily life.
To know more about physically challenged people, on Thursday, 04 July 2024 the students of Class III along with teachers visited ‘Nava Jeevana’, the rehabilitation centre for the disabled, as a part of the educational programme. It is 5 km away from Dream World School which is located in Vidya Nagar, Ballari.
‘Nava Jeevana’ is a rehabilitation centre for the disabled in Ballari, working to restore physical, sensory and mental capabilities among the patients. The centre comprises of two separate buildings namely Prathibhalaya for boys and Nava Jeevana for girls to stay in. It has classrooms for teaching academics and physiotherapy for the therapeutic support. They also teach music, dance and yoga to the children.
Sister Francina is the incharge person of ‘Nava Jeevana’ and Sister Cluny, one of the staff explained our students about the mission of Nava Jeevana and about the various disabilities of 43 children who are totally disabled. Sister Cluny and the staff look after the disabled children by providing basic needs and the physiotherapy required.
Mr. Virupakshi is the teacher in ‘Nava Jeevana’, who is blind himself but trains the children who are blind to survive in the society. By our request, he demonstrated the aids to our students which are used to teach the blind children with ‘Braille Script’ and ‘Braille Interpoint Slate’ with stylus. These learning aids for the visually impaired children brought curiosity among our students. The students were also wonderstruck watching blind children reading a paragraph from the Kannada and English textbooks using ‘braille script’.
Our students warmly introduced and interacted with the children of ‘Nava Jeevana’. Some students felt emotional for the children at their state of being blind and the way they lead their life in ‘Nava Jeevana’
This visit was a wonderful experience for our students, as it provided a good opportunity for them to observe and understand closely the struggle for education and routine works of the physically challenged people and the visually impaired children of ‘Nava Jeevana’. All our students and staff wished the children of the rehabilitation centre for their well-being.
We are thankful to the management and the staff of ‘Nava Jeevana’, for their co-operation in making our field-trip meaningful.
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A Report on Field Trip # 2 (Class - IV)
To: The Ballari Handloom Weavers Co-operative Production and Sale Society, Ballari (04/07/24) 2024-2025
Weaving is a process of making cloth by putting threads over and under one another on a machine called the loom. A ‘handloom’ is a loom that is used to weave cloth without the use of electricity.
On Thursday, 04 July 2024, the students of Class IV along with the teachers visited The Ballari Handloom Weavers Co-operative Production and Sale Society which was established in the year 1957. It is approximately 7 km away from Dream World School.
Mr. Nagaraj B. is the C.E.O of Ballari Handloom Weavers. The weaving society has 15 workers of 13 dealing with handloom and 2 workers with hand spinning.
Mr. Nagaraj B, the C.E.O of the Co-operative Society explained about the weaving of a saree with different patterns and colours. They weave different types of silk sarees like uppada and pochampalli. They get different types of silk threads and machines from Dharmavaram and Bengaluru, then send those silk threads to Yadiki for dyeing and after getting back the dyed fibre they start weaving. They also take contracts for making sarees of different patterns and the rolling of silk cloth. The weavers complete the weaving of one sari in 3 – 5 days. The consumers can visit the sale society to purchase the sarees on all days except on Sundays.
This visit has helped our students gain the practical knowledge about the handloom weaving which is an important economic activity, preserving the ancient culture of India providing employment for many.
For the successful completion of this field trip, we thank the management and staff of ‘The Ballari Handloom Weavers Co-operative Production and Sale Society’, for their support and co-operation.
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A Report on Field Trip # 2 (Class - V)
To: Moka Water Reservoir, Ballari (08/08/2024) 2024-2025
Natural water from rivers, canals etc. is not considered suitable for drinking. Therefore, this water is treated first in the water-works which is an establishment for treating the natural water and purify it to make it suitable for human consumption and supplied to the entire city for drinking purposes.
On Thursday, 8th August 2024, the students of Class V visited Moka Water Reservoir, Ballari, along with their respective teachers. It is about 11 km away from Dream World School. By 10:45 a.m. the students reached the reservoir which was established in the year 1964.
Mr. Yerriswamy welcomed us and guided our students about the filtration process of water. He explained that the raw water from the reservoir is passed through screen like structures which has holes. The water is then collected in a sedimentation tank. Sedimentation is the process of settling down of the large sediments under the force of gravity. In this step, large sediments settle down due to greater density than water. The water on the top is moved to another tank called loading tank. While large sediments get separated in the sedimentation tank, finer particles are still present in water.
These fine particles are separated from the water by the process of loading in the loading tank where a solution of alum is dissolved in water. Alum forms insoluble gelatinous flocs by coagulating all the finer particles by absorbing them and forming their aggregates. These aggregates which are bigger in size are now capable of settling under the force of gravity. The supernatant water is then moved to filtration tanks. In the filtration tank, a set of layers of fine sand, coarse-sand or gravel and coarse-gravel is arranged in the form of a bed. This process of filtration removes the colloids and other suspended material remaining in water including micro-organisms also. The filtered water is finally purified by using disinfectants like the chlorine gas. Disinfectants kill pathogenic as well as other microorganisms in water. After the disinfection, water is pumped into the overhead tank from there the water is pumped to Gandhi Nagar overhead tank for domestic distribution.
The residue of the filtered water containing fine gravel and sand is sent to the nearby fields for agricultural purpose.
This visit helped our students to gain the practical knowledge of filtration of water in the reservoirs. We thankful to the manager of the of the Moka Reservoir for his support and care in fulfilling our objective of this field trip successfully.
We are thankful to Mr. Yerriswamy for their support and concern in fulfilling our objective in this field trip.
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A Report on Field Trip # 2 (Class - VI)
To: Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) (dt.02/08/2024) 2024-2025
It is a known fact that, milk is a liquid food that provides the necessary nutrients for a healthy body. Usually, we drink milk which is obtained from cows and buffaloes. The major portion of society like individuals, hotels, bakeries, organisations are utterly dependent on the milk supplied by milk dairies. Ice cream is a frozen desert made from cream and ice with added flavours and sweeteners. Recently, it has been placed in healthy diets as it is rich in calcium. Calcium helps keep our body strong and boosts our metabolism.
With the objective to know the steps involved in the processing of milk and to observe the process of milk packing and ice cream preparation and packing, our students of Class VI visited the Nandini Milk Dairy and Ice Cream Plant, as a part of an educational programme on Friday, 2 Aug. 2024. It is about 4.3 km away from Dream World school.
Mr. Bheema Naik is the Chairman of the Nandini Milk Dairy. Mr. Peer Naik, the managing director and his team guided our students in the Nandini Milk Dairy. The milk dairy was started in 1974 and at present they have 14 Unions in Karnataka and this is one among them. In Ballari Union, they have 3 branches namely, Koppal, Raichur and Ballari. In the milk dairies, milk is collected from people and processed before it is supplied to society. They collect approximately 2 lakh litres of milk from 120 villages per day.
The staff of Nandini Milk Dairy explained about the steps and precautions involved during processing of milk and types of milk to our students. Farmers collect milk from cows and send it to the main dairies by means of Bulk Milk Cooler (BMC) and Chilling Centres (CC). Here the quality check of milk is done by Corrected Lactometer Test (CLT), then the milk undergoes the pasteurisation process (quickly heating the milk to a near boiling temperature (72 - 780C) and quickly cooled to 40 C. The packing of milk is done by using machines and stored under low temperatures for further supply in the market and some milk products are also prepared.
Our students also visited the Ice Cream Plant, where they prepare 10,000 litres of ice cream per day. The ingredients are used to prepare ice cream are milk, sugar, skimmed milk powder, butter and stamulcol (acts as a emulfiser and stabilizer). They have different tanks like milk storage tank, ingredients mix tank, mix cum pre - heating tank, pasteurised tank, aging tank, flavours adding tank etc .. all these tanks are helpful in the manufacturing of ice cream.
This visit helped our students to gain the knowledge about the functioning of a milk dairy and ice cream plant with a real learning experience.
We are thankful to the Managing Director Mr. Peer Naik and Mr. Ravi Kiran, for their support and care in fulfilling our objective to complete this field trip successfully.
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A Report on Field Trip # 2 (Class - VII)
To: Primary Health Centre, Korlagundi. Dt.06/08/2024 2024-2024
On 6th August 2024, the students of Class VII along with teachers visited the Primary Health Centre Korlagundi, Ballari District. It is 15.3 km away from Dream World School. We left for the place from school at 10:30 a.m.
We visited the Primary Health Centre, Korlagundi with the objective of knowing how the Primary Health Centre works in the rural administration.
The students were excited to know about the Primary Health Centre (PHC). We were guided by the nurse Ms. Sunitha. She gave information about Primary Health Centre and the working system of the Primary Health Centre (PHC).
PHC of Korlagundi runs under the supervision of Dr. Nousheen Mariyam, including staff members i.e. doctor (1), staff nurse (3), lab technician (1), Pharmasist (1), LHV (1 Lady Health Visitor), FDA (First Division Assistant) and Group-D worker(1). Along with these the other three female and male field workers respectively visit nearby 10 villages which come under this PHC for vaccination. And it covers 28 Anganwadis and 25 Asha workers altogether.
At the village level there are health centers where there is usually a nurse and a village health worker. They are trained to treat common illnesses and work under the supervision of doctors at the Primary Health Centre. Public health service has an important role in the primary and secondary prevention of several disease conditions, including non-communicable diseases.
The PHC is equipped with different rooms namely general ward, medical ward/ drugs room, labour ward, vaccine room, pharmacy and lab room. In general ward pregnant women are taken care. In the labour ward there are different types of equipment like baby warmer, oxygen machine, weight and height checkup machine, sterilizer and vaccine box.
With the information provided by the nurse Ms. Sunitha, our students came to know about the role and the importance of the PHC in the villages.
We thank Dr. Nousheen Mariyam and the 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 - VIII)
To: Agricultural Farm – Ibrahimpura, Ballari. (07/08/2024) 2024-2025
On Wednesday, 7 August 2024, the students of Class VIII visited the agricultural farm along with their respective teachers. The farm is about 15 km away from Dream World School.
Agriculture is the systematic practice of cultivating plants and livestock in order to provide facilities to the human beings. In the rise of the sedentary human lifestyle, agriculture is the key for the development. It is the basic work for the people to live in the society and a main source of livelihood. Most of the population in the rural areas are dependent on agriculture as their main source of income. With the objective to know the basic agricultural practices and to observe the process involved in the organic farming our students visited the agricultural farm as a part of an educational programme.
The Agricultural Farm is spread over 28 acres of land. In that, 15 acres is cultivated by using organic farming method and remaining land is cultivated by using chemical fertilizers. Mr. Ravi Kumar, is the owner of this agricultural farm.
The team in the agricultural farm is headed by Ravi Kumar who guided our students throughout the field trip. He explained to our students about the steps involved in the process of agriculture. The agricultural farm is cultivated with various crops such as fig, guava, sugarcane, pomegranate, maize, sandalwood, malabar teakwood, lemon, drumstick etc. They are also practicing mixed farming (growing crops along with rearing animals) in the same agricultural land. At present per day two daily wage workers work in the farm and during harvesting time 40-50 workers are required to work per day.
The organic farming method is practised by using organic manure, jeevamrutha, gokrupamrutha (200ltrs of water, 2 kgs of jiggery, 2 ltrs butter milk and 2 ltrs of culture liquid) and vermi compost (cow dung+ agricultural waste + earthworms). The jeevamrutha of 200 ltrs is prepared with the composition of 2 kg of dicotlean flour (any two types of pulses), 10 ltrs of cow’s urine, one handful of mud of that land, 10 kg of cowdung and 200 ltrs of water. Pest control is done by dashaparnikashaya and fungicide by the mixture of 1 ltr of butter milk + 20 ltrs of water. For the good growth of plants they use fish amino acid (10 kgs of fish + 10 kgs of jiggery).The agricultural products are sold in the market nearby to the taluk office in Ballari. The main motto behind the organic farming is to provide chemical free products to the society.
This visit helped our students to gain the practical knowledge of basic agricultural practices. We are thankful to the owner of the agricultural farm for his support and care in fulfilling our objective of this field trip successfully.
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