by admin | Jan 20, 2014 | Resources Websites
The Ampville website has been created by the ESB and the Curriculum Development Unit of Mary Immaculate College to teach pupils about Electricity and how to stay safe around electricity. Available in English and Gaeilge, the site includes games, experiments, quizzes,...
by admin | Jan 19, 2014 | Resources Websites
The Explorers Education Programme is a free Marine Education Programme, which is funded by the Marine Institute. The Programme, which was been in existence since 2006, aims to integrate marine themes as closely as possible with lessons already taught in primary...
by admin | Jan 15, 2014 | Resources Websites
PaperZip is another website I’ve only recently come across that offers free downloadable classroom resources. Launched in 2011 and based in Scotland, the website offers resources in a range of curricular areas such as literacy, numeracy, geography, science and...
by admin | Jan 14, 2014 | Resources Websites
Teachers Pay Teachers is a website which I only recently became aware of. As the website itself says it is an “open marketplace for educators to buy, sell, and share their original resources”. There is a huge amount of resources on the site across all...
by admin | Dec 4, 2013 | Resources Websites, Teaching News
Nanoscience is the simply the science of the VERY small. Nanoscience is an exciting new field within materials science and is explored throughout the NanoWOW pack. Designed for 5th and 6th class pupils the pack will introduce Irish Primary students to the world of...
by admin | Nov 13, 2013 | Resources Websites, Teaching News
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., and the Minister for the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan T.D., today jointly launched new History lesson plans for primary schools. The History lesson plans are based on A History of Ireland in...
by admin | Oct 31, 2013 | Resources Websites
Martin Burrett of the ICT Magic wiki has just released this video which has some cool recommendations of websites that teachers and pupils will enjoy using in the classroom. There are suggestions for a great animation website using Scratch-like coding, a website where...
by admin | Sep 30, 2013 | Resources Websites
The Teaching Packs website comes from the same website stable as Teaching Ideas, Teaching Videos, Teaching News, Teaching Photos and Teaching Appz. It is a website of printable classroom resources for teachers which are arranged by theme and have been created by Mark...
by admin | Sep 22, 2013 | Resources Websites
Again, thanks to Twitter, I was alerted to this resource pack put together by South Dublin Libraries who, in 2013 in association with Poetry Ireland (Writers in Libraries Scheme), presented Writing History: 1913 Lockout, a project which brought two authors to six...
by admin | Sep 19, 2013 | Resources Websites
The Toporopa website provides free interactive geography games based on Europe. Eighteen different games are available including games on the Countries of Europe; Mountains, Seas, Rivers of Europe; The European Union; Capitals of Europe; Flags of Europe; The Eurozone...
by admin | Sep 19, 2013 | PE, Resources Websites
Céim ar Aghaidh (Step Ahead) is a GAA Games Development initiative to supply teachers and pupils with educational resources based on the enjoyable theme of Gaelic Games. It uses the fun of Gaelic games to deliver an exciting range of exercises to support the Primary...
by admin | Sep 10, 2013 | AEN, Resources Websites
File Folder Fun is a great website full of lots of free resources (kinda like Seomra Ranga!) to download and print out. I hadn’t heard of it before and it was discovered by my colleague. We have just started to print out some games to use in our autism class,...
by admin | Aug 29, 2013 | Resources Websites
Fun 2 Write is a website with free printables especially useful for the infant classroom. It includes alphabet tracing worksheets; number tracing worksheets for numbers 1-10; shape recognition and tracing worksheets; colour identification worksheets; big/small,...
by admin | Aug 29, 2013 | Resources Websites, Technology
The team behind Widbook contacted me to see if teachers might be interested in this free digital collaborative reading and writing platform that’s creating a buzz among the teaching, tech and publishing industries. It may be of particular interest to those teachers...
by admin | Aug 27, 2013 | Resources Websites
Topography Games is a section from the Games.co.za website. It is a free resource for teachers, pupils and parents to use and contains links to various Geography games which are suitable for senior primary and post-primary school aged pupils. Topography is about the...
