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The potential classroom use of these tools and resources is endless. It provides lots of links within the classroom particularly in the area of Social, Environmental and Scientific Education. It promotes responsible environmental practice which links well with the “environmental awareness and care” unit in Geography. The modules are also a great introduction to elements of subjects the students will be learning about in secondary school. It also promotes healthy eating through its seafood journey with Failte Ireland. This provides great links with SPHE and the Food Dudes program run by Bord Bia. The history associated with agriculture and aquaculture links very well with the strand units in History. It is brilliant to promote BIM’s Social License Projects such as the ‘Young Chef Ambassador Programme’. I think learning about Aquaculture and Social License will greatly impact our school students. I think it is very important to introduce aquaculture to young people at an early age. It would be beneficial for students to know about the great work Bord Iascaigh Mhara does.
Hello all,
My name is Orla and I teach in a large primary school in Dublin. Next year I will be teaching second class. An interesting space fact is 564 people have been into space – of that number 65 of them were women.
From September onwards I plan to use an inquiry-based activity about gravity and falling things in the classroom. I will engage in this activity when I am completing the ‘Energy and Forces’ unit of work. The students will investigate how forces act on objects. We will speak about push and pull forces. We will complete some examples (using objects such as a toy car) in small groups before showing our investigations to the whole class. We will then explore the effects of gravity using the ESERO resources as a guide. I will then provide different objects for the children to name and explore the effect of gravity on. To investigate we will devise our starter question and predictions. We will choose somewhere safe from which to drop our objects at the same time. We will measure the height of the drop, so it’s the same each time. We will observe and record our results and what we see. We will repeat the drop three times, recording our results. After conducting the investigation in small groups we will analyse and interpret our results, before writing our conclusions.. Perhaps as a follow on we could complete the egg parachute experiment depending on the ability of the class.
