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Hi Harry,
I too realize now that aquaculture is a real lifeline for the people along our wild atlantic way!
Hi Grainne,
I really want to organize for the ARC remote classroom to come to my school in Dublin. Sounds like an exciting day for not only the children but the teachers too!
I like the idea of incorporating the bottle recycling scheme into sustainability practices for the school. It could be really purposeful and there’s lots you could do with it. The money generated could be donated to a local food bank to pay for supplies or it could even be given to a local charity.
Sustainability is a buzz word which we hear a lot, especially in my school. Every day, whether it is online, on the telly or on the radio we will hear the words ‘Global Warming’ and children need to know what that means what their role is in trying to stop and slow it down. If we have sustainable practices as normality and there is a culture of conversation in our schools surrounding how we can be more sustainable we are showing children that it is possible for them to contribute positively to the local and wider world that they live in through their actions and how they live. It is achievable and it can be achieved using baby steps. An example of sustainability that I see used in my local area is a huge emphasis where possible on children cycling, walking, bussing, scooting, running and moving their bodies in whatever way they can to get to and from school each morning and afternoon. The children also see many of the teachers in our school cycling and walking to work where they can and it sets a really brilliant example for them to see their school leaders and role models protecting the environment in their daily adult lives.
I mentioned this before but allowing children to discover and be proud of the sustainable practices that they unknowingly carry out daily or weekly by giving them an opportunity in school to recognize that is a surefire way for them to seek out more opportunities to live in a sustainable way and incorporate them into their lives as seamlessly as possible. This is where we have the opportunity in schools to give children these platforms for discussion, conversation and realization through our everyday teaching methodologies and the ethos we carried out day on day.Hi Daniel,
I love your suggestion about doing a simple cooking demo in the classroom to open the children’s eyes to the simplicity of cooking seafood. Sounds like something you would remember for many years to come! I will certainly be using that idea in the future!
In the world we live in nowadays, nutrition and healthy living is becoming something that most people are thinking about on a level where they haven’t maybe before. With that being said, there has been an enormous increase in the production of processed and ultra processed foods. For this reason, we need to equip children with the knowledge and the tools as to how they can feed themselves with food which will allow their brains and bodies to thrive and open their minds about the food on their plates. For someone who is greatly interested in healthy eating and good quality food, I learned a lot of new things about the nutrients that seafood can provide and the importance of some of these minerals and vitamins for our bodies. It is clear to me that there are many nutrients that we do not traditionally link with seafood but meat that most children do not know about. Knowing this is really important for the children to know. I think, when you can give children a reason for them to want to eat the right food because it will allow them to do things they want to do at a high level we will get through to them rather than just telling them to eat something because it is healthy. I love the idea of using the story of the salmon of knowledge as a lead in to a conversation as a teaching tool for children. Showing children that fish is something that can be added into their diets is far better than telling them they need to overhaul what they eat in order to be healthy I feel is the way to allow them to over time, have a healthy and balanced diet as children, adolescents and eventually young adults. The I spy activity is a lovely way for the children to see how they can begin to recognise the seafood they would learn about in school in the supermarkets and maybe they can begin to influence what their parents buy when they are in the supermarket.
Hi Daerca,
I tend to agree about the reference you made to the emphasis put on urban versus rural and the message that that sends and how aquaculture doesn’t seem to have been given a place within these definitions and jargon we use.
As someone who grew up in the midlands of Ireland, my knowledge of aquaculture and sea farming is minimal at this point in my life. I know of a man who farmed mussels on the west coast of Ireland for 25 years and he, along with his business partners provided for their family and employed many people young and old in the local community. I enjoyed learning in this module about the different reasons and factors at play for how aquaculture can and does thrive in the west coast of Ireland and in the east with Dublin Bay providing some of the best prawns in the world (I’ve heard!). Learning about aquaculture kind of is opening my eyes to a new industry and a new way of life that is reality for many people on the coast in the same way that agriculture is for many Irish people on land. In rural coastal areas, without aquaculture being supported, the opportunities for people to farm on the land is low and encourages locals to move out of those areas so, the importance of investment and support for aquaculture in these areas becomes more and more real. STEM is a field which many of the children that we teach will find themselves working in and we as teachers can justify exploring this as part of STEM education to get the children thinking and learning about aquaculture from a really early age. I can see so many areas of potential integration with existing curriculum subject areas such as history. geography, science, visual arts and others.
As someone who grew up in the midlands of Ireland, my knowledge of aquaculture and sea farming is minimal at this point in my life. I know of a man who farmed mussels on the west coast of Ireland for 25 years and he, along with his business partners provided for their family and employed many people young and old in the local community. I enjoyed learning in this module about the different reasons and factors at play for how aquaculture can and does thrive in the west coast of Ireland and in the east with Dublin Bay providing some of the best prawns in the world (I’ve heard!). Learning about aquaculture kind of is opening my eyes to a new industry and a new way of life that is reality for many people on the coast in the same way that agriculture is for many Irish people on land. In rural coastal areas, without aquaculture being supported, the opportunities for people to farm on the land is low and encourages locals to move out of those areas so, the importance of investment and support for aquaculture in these areas becomes more and more real.
I really enjoyed going through the first section of the course. I knew very little about the ins and outs of aquaculture in Ireland and what we have to offer.
I think in an age where we are all looking for more sustainable ways to live our lives, showing children that there are brilliant sustainable ways to farm sea life and use them to live healthy lives. It’s also a great reminder of what we have at our doorstep/coastline and knowing what we can produce in the sea in Ireland.I love the remote classroom. I was actually excited looking at it myself and I can see how even in the inner city school I work in how it could be brought to us with the minimal space that we have. It looks fantastic and I would love to see it come so that the older students in my school could learn and experience it all.