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Science Club Report |
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The
Science Club for the year 2005 – 2006 was formed in the mid of
November 2005. The teacher’s in-charge were Ms. Rupali Rele, Ms.
Susan George and Ms. Nirmal Lopes. The Science Club had a strength of
38 members comprising of students from Standard 5th to 9th.
The Club had a range of activities both Indoor and outdoor. In
keeping with the world-wide concern about climatic change and its
effect on mankind, the British Council had launched a global campaign
called Zero Carbon City. As part of this programme, Nature trail was
arranged at Conservation Education Centre (CEC), Goregaon. The visit
to the Colaba observatory of the Meteorological Department, conducted
for members of Std 8th and 9th gave the boys a
chance to see the various gadgets utilized to record the temperature,
humidity, rainfall, atmospheric pressure. Also our students got a
chance to observe the results of the tectonic movements of the earth’s
crust (Seismograph) in the observatory |
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Students visited the Nehru Planetarium to attend a Chemistry Workshop
where the difficult concepts of Chemistry were made easy and
interesting for the students in terms of simple explanation and
experiments |
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Members of the Science Club also visited the AB Ward Science
Exhibition held at Anjuman Islam High School and an exhibition
organized by the Project Tiger, Sanctuary Magazine at Don Bosco High
School, Matunga on the theme of Saving tiger as well as Conservation
of Environment. Two visits were organized to the Nehru Science Centre
along with the Nature and the Eco-Consumer Club. The first visit to
the Nehru Science Centre was part of the Science Expo Programme 2005 –
2006 where students attended lectures conducted by the Scientists from
various renowned institutions on topics like Solid Waste Management
and its health impacts, Ecological Problems and its impact on mankind,
etc. The Second visit to the same venue was to attend exhibition on
“Century of Physics”, a visit to the gallery and to see the films
involved in the Scientific film Festival. Apart from these outdoor
activities, indoor activities were carried out during the Science week
in the month of February 2006. During this week various activities
like science projects, essay competitions, drawing competitions and an
inter – house quiz competitions were conducted |
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The
active participation of the teacher-in-charge and the students of the
Science Club and also the support and guidance of the other teaching
staff helped in the smooth functioning of the Science Club |
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