by admin | Mar 23, 2013 | Rang II
Dúisigh a Bhríd – Ceacht 37: Bronntanas Airgid; cuid de chúrsa comhrá Gaeilge le haghaidh Rang II, á chur le chéile ag an Roinn Oideachais blianta ó shin. Obair digiteach déanta ag Seomra Ranga i mbliana. B’fhéidir go bhfuil cuid den acmhainn seo “as dáta”, ach bain...
by admin | Mar 23, 2013 | Free
This Powerpoint resource for junior classes from Sea Life Bray focuses on explaining how different animals reproduce and the life cycle of the animal. It explains that some animals give birth to live babies while others are hatched from an egg. Featuring stunning...
by admin | Mar 23, 2013 | Free
This Powerpoint resource for junior classes from Sea Life Bray focuses on the different aspects of the daily life of living creatures. All animals need to Feed, Reproduce, Grow, Move, Sense. Each of these needs is explained in the presentation. Featuring stunning...
by admin | Mar 23, 2013 | Free
This Powerpoint resource for junior classes from Sea Life Bray focuses on how the estimated three million different types of animals in the world are classified. It teaches pupils the language of animal classification:...
by admin | Mar 23, 2013 | Free
This Powerpoint resource for junior classes from Sea Life Bray focuses on the importance of movement for the survival of animals. It shows how different animals and fish move and how their senses help in that movement. The connection to human senses is also explored....
by admin | Mar 23, 2013 | Free
This Powerpoint resource for junior classes from Sea Life Bray focuses on the different habitats of animals. Whether on land or in water, different animals like different habitats. Some animals choose a habitat because it suits them for a particular reason. It also...
by admin | Mar 23, 2013 | Apps
News Booth is an app which allows you to turn photographs or pictures into something which looks like a screen grab from Sky News or some other such news channel. I recently came across this app at the CESI conference in February and decided to try it out in the...
by admin | Mar 22, 2013 | Teaching News
Tomás Ó Ruairc, Director of the Teaching Council, yesterday delivered a presentation to the annual Conference of the Inspectorate entitled “The Role of the Teaching Council in Ensuring Quality of Teaching in Schools”. In a wide-ranging presentation Tomás...
by admin | Mar 17, 2013 | Apps, Teaching News, Technology
The Irish in Stories is a new interactive iBook just released in the last couple of days. It is a 60 page book for the iPad which opens in the iBooks application. It aims to bring to readers the rich and varied history and mythology of ancient Ireland. It is full of...
by admin | Mar 17, 2013 | Technology
Inside Education is a weekly radio programme on 103.2 Dublin City FM in the Dublin area with live streaming on Dublin City FM. You can hear it every Sunday live at 19:30 (Dublin time). It is repeated at 15:30 on Mondays. The programme is presented and produced by Seán...
by admin | Mar 17, 2013 | Apps
The Book of Kells is one of the world’s most famous illustrated manuscripts and the most elaborate manuscript of its kind to survive from the early Middle Ages. A copy of the four gospels, it was written by Irish monks in the 9th Century on calf-skin,...
by admin | Mar 16, 2013 | Teaching News, Website
The National Sea Life Centre is located on the sea front in Bray, Co. Wicklow. Sometimes described as an “aquatic zoo”, it is home to over 1,000 creatures including Black Tip Reef Sharks, Octopus, Seahorses, Stingrays and Red-Bellied Piranha. It is a...
by admin | Mar 16, 2013 | Apps, Technology
To mark Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union and to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, a new free app/ebook has just been released called A History of Ireland in 100 Objects. The development of this app/ebook has been a collaboration...
by admin | Mar 15, 2013 | Teaching News
Logainm is an Irish website containing a database of the placenames of Ireland. The site comes in an English version or a Gaeilge version and you can switch between both quite easily. The purpose of the site is to make available to the public Irish place names that...
by admin | Mar 14, 2013 | St. Patrick's Day
Somebody recently sent me the link to these classroom resources for St. Patrick’s Day from the World Irish website. It’s got history of St. Patrick, worksheets and exercises that may be suitable for the classroom on this St. Patrick’s weekend....
