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How I and my students could be more sustainable:
Recycle plastic bottle using the return scheme, recycle paper, compost fruit skins, pencil parings, apple cores, keep a record of modes of travelling to school, put basins in all classroom sinks to save water and use this in turn to wash paint brushes, put tips about sustainabilty on school website and newsletter, Organise poster competitions inhouse about Sustainability, litter clean ups, Spring clean ups, buy more fairtrade products.
Hi Darera,
I Agree, the hands on learning is so memorable and we all remember lessons where we were hands on. I was lucky to experience the ARC in Carlingford three weeks ago. My children were in awe of it and as a result we got fish and chips on the way home. We live on the island of Ireland and it’s so important for us to teach the future adults about what we have learned on this great course.
We are very passionate in our home here and in our school in relation to Sustainability. Sustainability , in simple terms is really looking out for Our future. We have seen from our past and that of our ancestors the negative effects of not being sustainable e.g. animals becoming extinct, global warming, sea levels rising.
It;s is an integral part of of our local area to promote and practise sustainability. As a Community, ew recycle glass bottles, reuse plastic where we can, many homes have compost bins which in turn we use for planting and growing vegetables, we recycle clothes and do uniform swops in our school, local beach clean ups.
IN our school, our Green School Committee and the wider school community are very active in promoting sustainability. The children learn about reducing waste, not wasting water, travelling to school by bike, walking or car pooling is better for our environment. The children are also learning about the United Nations Sustainable Goals, and we are working towards and on these 17 goals. The children understand why these goals were introduced in 2015 and we revie and reflect how sustainable we are as a school and community. We encourage the families to buy fair trade products or dolphin safe products. The children whilst learn about nutrition in seafood they also learn that farmed salmon are a sustainable alternative to wild salmon.
Hi Katie, I love the idea of cooking more fish in Home Economics. We as a nation certainly do not eat enough seafood especially and we ae an island. We are lucky to have an oven in our school, the ideas of cooking samples of fish has inspired me. Thank you.
The Nutrition of Seafood could be applied in the classroom by firstly doing a KWL chart with the children about what they know about seafood?, do they eat it at home? what seafood do they know the names of? etc. This then could be followed by re introducing the Food pyramid. I have multi grade classes and they would have learned about the food pyramid previously.
Focusing on the yellow section of the Food Pyramid , the protein section and focusing on seafood. Its benefits and its importance in our diet e.g. salmon which is is high in omega -3 fatty acids.
As well as these lessons with the visit of the ARC to our school this would further reinforce the benefits and the knowledge about the nutrition of seafood.
There are very informative booklets that that the children can bring home to their families to make them aware of the nutrition of seafood e.g. HSE Healthy Eating Guide, Healthy Food for life ( ppt) could be emailed to parents.
Surveys could be sent out to parents re: their knowledge of the nutrition of seafood and how many times a week in the household is seafood consumed? This could be analyzed and reviewed in the future to see new findings.
I love this learning opportunity of using the story of the Salmon of Knowledge. And with parent consent the children may have the opportunity to sample salmon. There are so much minerals and health benefits to eating Salmon.
These modules and lessons on this course are absolutely great and all the extra information also. I can definitely see myself applying the concepts and skills covered here in alignment with the Stem education policy statement in the coming year. The ARC are going to visit our school in the coming year and hopefully we will plan a visit to Carlingford Oysters as it is on our doorstep. There is nothing better that setting in to the Aquaculture outside classroom to learn hands on skills of problem solving, observation, critical thinking, questioning to name a few.
In our school as part of how STEM Education can be addressed as part of the SSE process we as a school will take part in the 6 steps of 1, Identify a focus e.g. putting more emphasis on Aquaculture in to our learning alongside STEM and the Arts, 2,, Gather information, analyse and make judgement, write and share improvement plan, put improvement plan in to action, monitor actions and evaluate feedback as well as sharing this with the outside school community.
Great points Michelle! I too was fascinated to hear how farming on land will soon become a premium and how only 1-2% of our world’s oceans are used for aquaculture and how this is an area that would lend itself to further sustainable growth. Our school is located near Carlingford, in Co. Louth . There is an Oyster farm here in Carlingford and owned by the Louet-Feisser family. There are so many time that I have passed it by now I seem to notice it more and am interested as I am doing this online course. This great Aquaculture farms provides employment to local people near and far and provides many of the local eateries with fresh local oysters. Recently I visited the ARC in Carlingford and it gave me and my children a great insight in to the knock on and positive effect of having a local Aquaculture farm here on our door step. Having the farm keeps the waterways clear it boosts economic growth in the area as well as employment opportunities.
Lesson plan for the map plotting activity using geographical and mathematical skills covered:
Firstly, I would brainstorm with the children what they know about maps and do a KWL chart to go along this. In small groups we would discuss with the children and pick out key features from maps of our local area here in Carlingford, Co. Louth e.g. inlets, sea, lighthouse, beaches etc.
Next, when the children have a key understanding of the key features the lesson will progress to the many different layers entailed in a map and eth geographical and mathematical skills used e.g. dept, symmetry, water current strategy, contour lines, human activity, time of year, scale, compass, cardinal points etc.
Along with this, in pairs, the children will go on online mapping software e.g. Google maps to local our local section of our area being studies and use the view finder to further explore details for their map plotting.
Each group are invite to create their own map along with my help.
We will do a review and reflection and self-evaluation what worked well and what could have worked better with our map plotting activity
It is so important to introduce aquaculture to young people at an early age as they will grown up knowing more about the seas around where they live and foster a love and knowledge for the Sea, Aquaculture and the Industry. Professor O’ Meara in the videos told the information in a fun and interactive way and if children were introducted to this at an early age they would build on this knowledge and part of their education.
My favourite BIM’s Social Licensing Project for aquaculture is the ARC ( Aquaculture Remote Classroom) because I love the way it can travel to so many schools throughout the country and cater for so many students from Primary, Secondary to even third Level Institutions.
I was lucky to visit the ARC when it was in Carlingford and my children and myself learned so much in a fun and interactive way. The staff were so knowledgeable and great to answer our questions. The ARC launched in 2019 and I didn’t know it existed until I started enrolling on this course. This is hands down my favourite project as we live on an island and we should know more I believe about Aquaculture and as much as we know about Agriculture. This is a fantastic resource and if we start with the children in Primary school by the time they get to secondary school they will know so much more about Aquaculture and may even pursue a job in the Industry.
I am really enjoying this course and learning about the ARC and the Aquaculture Industry.
I can definitely see myself using this great information and resources from this course in my classroom and our school. As Green Schools
Co-ordinator in the school, we are very aware how important water is to us on our Isle of Ireland and especially when we are located so close to the Carlingford Oyster Company in Carlingford. I was lucky to visit the ARC when it was in Carlingford three weeks ago with my children and we are so excited about the ARC coming to our school and us all learning so much more about the wonderful Aquaculture Industry which is literally on our doorstep. It was great to meet Katie and Aine and they are so passionate about what they do. This can impact our students and whole school community as we will learn more about the sea and sea life and hence foster a love of the Aquaculture Industry. I feel I am more confident now about teaching lessons on the topic as I am doing this course. The cinematic experience in the ARC , the fun activities, the VR headsets will be such a treat for the children and staff and especially getting the opportunity to taste local oysters from the Louet-Feisser family. Its experience like these that you will always remember and carry with you to the future perhaps a job in this industry and this would be a really positive impact on the students.