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- MORE
ABOUT PLANTS
The members ofthe Green Mark's Society went to Paras Nursery along
with their teachers on 4 November 2009. It was an educational
excursion for both the teachers as well as the students. The members
learnt about all kinds of plants that grow in the season and how
plants are manured and taken care of in the nursery. They also
saw many exclusive kinds of flowers and gained knowledge about
them. In all it was quite a flora day.
- AN
INTERACTIVE SESSION WITH MS. AMBIKA SHUKLA
Nature has enough to satisfy man’s need but not man’s
greed. “On 28 September 2009 the students of Companimals
club visited the Sanjay Gandhi Animal Care centre at Tagore Garden
where they were guided by Ms. Ambika Shukla, the renowned Animal
activist. Influenced by her guidance our school invited her on
19 November 2009 to hold an interaction with the students of class
VII. She started by telling them about animals and their importance.
She said, “It’s not the animals that need us, but
it’s we who need them;” She explained that the dogs
roaming here and there on the streets are not street dogs, but
they are the actual Indian dogs because these dogs are born on
Indian streets and are capable of facing the extreme temperatures
of India. She also focused on the point that we should adopt Indian
dogs rather than buying expensive pedigreed dogs because then
we propagate artificial breeding. She encouraged the students
to become vegetarians because by turning vegetarians they can
save millions of animals. She also mentioned that animals are
forcibly multiplied for meat and this becomes the greatest cause
of global warming. Last but not the least, she advised students
not to cage animals and leave them free. Her voice and her speech
had some mystic power which influenced the students and created
feelings of compassion towards dumb animals.
- STUDENTS
OF ST. MARK'S MEERA BAGH AT IIT, DELHI
13 students along with 4 teachers Ms. S. Punn, Mr. B. Tangri,
s. R. Verma and Ms. V. Lamba of St. Mark's Sr. Sec. Public School,
Meera Bagh attended a gathering of distinguished Scientists in
the Dogra Hall of IIT, Delhi. The programme was inaugurated by
the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Mr. Manmohan Singh. This was
followed by lectures by eminent professors - Mr. C.N.R. Rao, who
spoke on Solid State, Mr. L.S. Shashidharan, Mr. N. Rama Rao,
Mr. Satyajit Mayor and Mr. V. Kumaran, also enlightened the gathering
on various aspects of science which included Pseudorandom Generators,
Nanoscale organization in Membranes and 'from moving particles
to flowing materials theory'.
- SEMINAR
- TOYS FROM TRASH
Three
teachers from our school.
Mr. Sachin Arora, Ms. Sudha Chand
and
Ms. Subhra Thukral
attended a lecture cum demonstration on
"Toys from Trash" by
Prof. Arvind Gupta, at the National Science Academy on 28.2.2008
on the occasion of Science Day, to mark the C.V. Raman discovery
on Raman Effect. Prof. Arvind Gupta was awarded the Indira Gandhi
Prize for popularisation of Science by Prof. Yashpal. In his award
speech he showed a few toys that he had made from trash such as
a
simple
motor, pencil fan, magnetic leviation etc.
It was an enriching and learning experience indeed.
- ASTRONOMY
CLUB
We
not only study about the Earth but the stars and planets too.
The Astronomy Club of St. Mark's Sr. Sec. Public School, Meera
Bagh, under the
'NCR - Probe Programme: Meteorological and Environmental Education
for Schools' being
conducted by JNU, received the following metrological instruments:-
1. Dry
and wet bulb thermometer;
and minimum and maximum fixed thermometer
- for measuring
temperature.
2. Rain
Gauge
- to measure amount of rainfall.
3. Anemometer
- for measuring wind speed.
4. Mercury
Barometer
- for measuring atmospheric pressure.
5. Stop
watch
- for measuring time.
The reading of the instruments which is taken in the morning and
afternoon by the students is sent to JNU on a monthly basis. The
aim of the programme is to make the students interested in meteorology
and also to make them aware of the various factors affecting the
weather / climatic condition of a given region. Our young astronomers
set up a telescope in the school premises to observe the Sun at
different timings on 15.1.2008. They thoroughly enjoyed the activities
like concentrating the sun rays on a small spot and burning it.
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