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Source: Marudam Farm School, Thiruvannamalai
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Objective:
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# Learn the skill of identifying
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# To understand the process of segregating and classifying
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Age: All age groups
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'''Activity (I)'''
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# Collect sticks of various thickness, lengths and branches of trees, shrubs, grasses, herbs, etc. that ''are fallen''
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# Segregate them for various requirements/needs
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# Mulching for trees or plants
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# Making stands, hangers with ropes and sticks
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# Fire wood
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# Brooms
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# Fences, etc.
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'''Activity (II)'''
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Collect dry leaves for mulching and composting.
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Note down:
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# How was the soil below the leaves, wet or dry?
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# Write down the colours of the leaves.
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# What do you see in the pile of leaves?
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Make a compost pile:
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# Dig a pit - 1 ft, 1ft, 1ft
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# Arrange big sticks in a square.
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# Add the dry leaves and also vegetable peals, etc. in layers
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'''Activity (III):'''
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Collect medicinal herbs and make a health drink.
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Make a list of medicinal herbs and collect them:
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amman pacha arisi, aruvamanaipoondu, keezhanalli, moo kutlipoondu, kuppamei, karporavalli…
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Example one: health drink for phlegm:
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# Crush a handful of Kuppameni, Karpooravallai and Moringa leaf together
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# Add 5 pods of garlic, one teaspoon of jeera, and ¼ teaspoon of pepper
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# Grind it. Mix 5 cups of water to the paste.
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# Children can drink this before lunch (½ a cup/glass is good). [The phlegm will come through the potty the next day]
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Resource persons can be someone who has village background
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'''Activity (IV):'''
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We often think of fruits as banana, apple, grapes, watermelon.
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Collect fruits from trees, shrubs and plants (on roadsides, scrubby patches, next to your school, homes etc.)
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These are a list of fruits you could collect:
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jamun(naval), tamarind, lemon, narthangail, big lemon, guava, jackfruit, fig, palm fruit, kattuelanthai, vilvam, wood apple, perianellika, seetapazham, noongu
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Eat them raw, they are enjoyable, tasty and nutritious.
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Segregate them based on what you could make with them.
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Make jams, juices and pickles.
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Make a snack:
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Cut the fruit into pieces and dry them after adding salt/jaggery.
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Discussion- How do you preserve fruits? Make a health chart on the above fruits based on their nutritional value.
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'''Activity (V):'''
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Go to a scrubby patch near your house.
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# Collect berries that you can eat.
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# Name the fruits/berries.
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nana berry, kala ka (sometimes you find peria kala ka in the market), kattuelantai, sudaly, sura pazham, ooty apple, mookusalipazham, nellika, etc.
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Taste them and segregate them based on their taste.
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Make a candy:
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# Mix all the berries you have collected
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# Melt 4 spoons of jaggery to a thick consistency
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# Add the berries to the jaggery and dip sticks into the mixture.
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# Cool it.
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The candy is ready.
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'''Activity (VI):'''
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Collect seeds (which are seasonal) from the roadsides, your campus, open areas, hardens, parks.
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Here is a list of seeds that you could collect:
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neem seeds, tamarind seeds, pillaiyarkannu, poovarasan, ground nut, sesame seeds, chilli seeds, ilupai, manjadi, amanakku
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Segregate what you can grow into trees, herbs and shrubs.
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Make a mother bed for seed germination: 
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'''Activity (VII):'''
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Collect all the things that are thrown in your campus .List them.
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Segregate them into “Reuse”, ”Recycle” and “To be composted and burnt”.
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Note: Remember you can burn plastic.
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Upcycling is a concept where you make a product out of trash and give in extra value .
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Making a baniyan (vest) and make it into a bag with knots on both ends.
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'''[[:File:Collecting, Gathering & Segregating.odt|Download module]]'''
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