POST-PRIMARY TEACHERS'
NEWSLETTER
25 April 2012
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Teachers Domain
A free multimedia digital library covering various subject areas. Although based on the U.S. curriculum the material on the site is relevant to many areas of the Irish curriculum and includes a collection of classroom ready resources, multimedia lesson plans, and professional development resources.
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Leagan Gaeilge
     

Most viewed Post-Primary resources last week:

  1. Leisure Activities
    French
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  2. Final Accounts Quiz
    Business Studies
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  3. Building Circuits
    Science
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  4. Le Corps
    French
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  5. Irish Coastal Landscapes
    Gaography
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  6. Glaciation Quiz
    Geography
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  7. Palestine in Time of Jesus
    Religious Ed
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  8. Biology Revision
    History
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  9. LC Poetry
    English

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 news@scoilnet.ie
Listening to Music
  Even if you are not teaching or studying Music you should find these new resources interesting. Full descriptions, suggestions for class use and extension activities available on Scoilnet.
How to Listen to Music: Seven Essential Skills
Stage Fright: What Every Musician Should Know
The Nutcracker - Waltz of the Flowers YouTube video.
New Maths resources
 

A number of Maths resources recently described on Scoilnet are self-contained learning objects that may help in revision:
Trig Formulae 1-24  (SC - Hons) Worked Examples.
How to construct a perpendicular bisecotr of a line segment (JC) Animation that takes user through the steps.
Solving right angled triangles using Pytagoras' Theorem (JC)

Using Encyclopaedia Britannica in Religion

 

Encyclopaedia Britannica's Explore Topics section has a comprehensive list of Religion topics that contain 41 links alphabetically listed from Angkor Wat to Zoroastrianism.
Britannica Explore Religion
Teacher login from home to Britannica

NCCA re-developing Primary Curriculum
  The NCCA is re-developing the Primary Curriculum and as part of the process they are seeking input from stakeholders in their work. May interest post-primary teachers. A full report will be available on NCCA website in September
Children* Their lives their learning: Have your say
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