Suggestions for use: Recommend parents to use this book with their children in learning how to read.
Place storybook on the board and ask pupils to volunteer to read using "checker audio" if pupil struggles. Get less confident pupils to read the same line of the story after.

Suggestions for use: Allow pupils time to reflect on their learning by creating Avatars to record their poems, news or stories in digital format. Share with class to pick the next top cartoon.

Suggestions for use: Excellent resource for engaging lower ability students into your Irish class in a fun and interactive manner. Allow students to create their own Avatars. Convert your Avatar to Gaeilge by recording poems and news in Irish. You are in control of your Avatar! Spend time allowing pupils to assess each others Avatars and provide peer feedback to each other in a constructive manner of "what went well" and "even better if". Perfect also for Transition Year classes in practicing oral work.

Suggestions for use: Allow students to independently use this online resource to organise their thoughts before writing an essay so that they develop their characters awareness and appearance throughout their story.
Provide time for students then to compose their essays.
Allow peers to read each others essays providing "what went well" and "even better if" feedback.

Alternatively, experiment with this resource: Get half the class to compose their essays without using the interactive story-map link and the other half of the class to use the story-map link.
Allow your class to judge the effectiveness on the link.

Suggestions for use: Demonstrate how to use the website by using one pupils good work.
Explain to pupils what you expect in regards to good work from using mystorybook website.
Perfect for creating a book on the EURO 2016 sporting event; link to maths, geography, art, physical education and science.
Link story into art lesson by allowing pupils time to create pictures and illustrations to match their text.

Suggestions for use: Teachers should use the links in planning for lessons for maths, science, geography, physical education, art, literacy music, history and gaeilge.
Ábhar an-mhaith atá anseo don phleanáil agus don mhúineadh thraschuraclaim.

Suggestions for use: Use this blank slate as a way of allowing your students to become free thinkers. Allow them to use the building blocks to create a world where their story will happen with characters that will boost their imagination skills and childlike adventures. Once students have their Minecraft world build, next stage is to allow students to share their worlds with each other along with their future ideas. Once shared, they need to keep their worlds safe by introducing their world in their creative story writing exercise before it vanishes from memory forever.

Suggestions for use: Use in maths for students to compare units ans volume of block sizes in relation to one another/ Fractions.

Suggestions for use: Starter: Set resource to Labhair; allow pupils to brainstorm Irish words associated to the picture/story. Guess the topic time.
Task: Read text together, then listen to the text being read, repeat reading the text as class.
Task: Allow time for students to fill in the blanks.
Provide additional question sheet and activities to higher ability pupils.

Suggestions for use: Teachers should use the links in planning for lessons for maths, science, geography, physical education, art, literacy music, history and gaeilge.
Ábhar an-mhaith atá anseo don phleanáil agus don mhúineadh thraschuraclaim.

Suggestions for use: Demonstrate the digital literacy behind using this interactive resource. (My favorite is by clicking on Petra Jordan).
Get pupils into groups, give each group a different place to visit.
Pupils will then present their findings to the class by interacting with the resource from the board for the class to see.

Suggestions for use: Demonstrate the digital literacy behind using this interactive resource. (My favorite is by clicking on Petra Jordan).
Get pupils into groups, give each group a different place to visit.
Pupils will then present their findings to the class by interacting with the resource from the board for the class to see.

Suggestions for use: New advancements in technology will open the potential to new innovations and monitoring systems accessed by all. The ability to track endangered species, witness environmental changes over time, aerial photos of habitat studies.
Use drones for student models of cells:
Look at the micro world and the macro world. Have a few kids be "cells" of an unknown creature. Pin signs to them with different labels giving hints as to what the broader organism might be. Slowly zoom out and at each 10 feet of distance or so learn a little more about the macro environment in which the cells live. Zoom out entirely to see the plant or creatures in which the cells function.
Use in science to demonstrate the real meaning of magnification.
Recreate the Powers of 10 video. Remember? The camera started at ground level and pulled back illustrating what the world looked like zooming out by the power of 10. The drones only go so far, so kids can incorporate the footage with their own illustrations in post.

Suggestions for use: Use the games Bird, Turtle and Movie to introduce the importance of knowing angles. How birds need to know angles for survival but how computer games use angles in their coding and programming.

Suggestions for use: Teach students how to give directions through coding by using the game MAZE. Allow students to play individually, in pairs or in teams.

Suggestions for use: Use website to gain ideas from scheme of works, videos on getting started, lesson activities and projects.
- Visualise sorting with Phyton.
-sorting hats.
-Physical computing with Scratch
...etc

Suggestions for use: Use the scheme of work on "Sensing the Weather" to plan your lessons on recording weather observation data. Students will consider the importance of collecting weather data and how this can be done. They will connect some simple sensors, be introduced to the Python programming language, and learn some techniques to gather sensor data.
By creating a simple weather station with Raspberry Pi, students will learn:

How weather predictions are made, and the importance of data collection
How to use GPIO pins
How to create a simple circuit on a breadboard
How to detect inputs from GPIO pins with Python code

Suggestions for use: Teachers should use the links in planning for lessons for maths, science, geography, physical education, art, literacy music, history and gaeilge.
Ábhar an-mhaith atá anseo don phleanáil agus don mhúineadh thraschuraclaim.

Suggestions for use: Coding and Programming.

Suggestions for use: Use website to gain ideas from scheme of works, videos on getting started, lesson activities and projects.
- Visualise sorting with Phyton.
-sorting hats.
-Physical computing with Scratch
...etc

Suggestions for use: Use the scheme of work on "Sensing the Weather" to plan your lessons on recording weather observation data. Students will consider the importance of collecting weather data and how this can be done. They will connect some simple sensors, be introduced to the Python programming language, and learn some techniques to gather sensor data.
By creating a simple weather station with Raspberry Pi, students will learn:

How weather predictions are made, and the importance of data collection
How to use GPIO pins
How to create a simple circuit on a breadboard
How to detect inputs from GPIO pins with Python code

Suggestions for use: Computer science- learn coding and programming through Googles free online course. Excellent for a Club / after-school work.

Suggestions for use: Use the games Bird, Turtle and Movie to introduce the importance of knowing angles. How birds need to know angles for survival but how computer games use angles in their coding and programming.

Suggestions for use: Teach students how to give directions through coding by using the game MAZE. Allow students to play individually, in pairs or in teams.

Suggestions for use: Use this website in class to demonstrate what primary sources are...why not set up a community night in your school? Where older generations can bring their mysteries and antiques to showcase to your class? Set up your own flicker account using this link as a reference and guide.

Suggestions for use: Teachers should use the links in planning for lessons for maths, science, geography, physical education, art, literacy music, history and gaeilge.
Ábhar an-mhaith atá anseo don phleanáil agus don mhúineadh thraschuraclaim.

Suggestions for use: Connect with an author:
What better way to introduce students to a piece literature than to have them speak with the author that created the work? Many authors will participate in a short video call with classes to answer questions or to read portions of their books.
The Skype an Author Network is a great place to find authors who are willing to Skype with classes. The site provides a list of authors and information regarding the specifics of what they will present during a call. One of their main prerequisites for making a call is that the students have read at least one of their books.
BRING EXPERTS TO YOUR CLASSROOM
Regardless of your location, it can be difficult to find experts in various subject areas who are able to travel to your school and share information with students. Setting up a Skype call can be a practical option.
To find willing partners, check with universities, museums, government agencies, or businesses to find potential speakers for your class. You might be surprised at who says yes.
TAKE VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS
School budgets have taken a huge hit in recent years making it increasingly difficult to take field trips. While it’s not the same as loading up the bus and driving to the museum, taking a virtual tour using Skype can be the next-best thing.
Check with museums, historical attractions, and other locations to see if they have someone on site who would be willing to conduct a virtual tour for your class. If you can’t find an employee at a specific location, solicit the help of a friend who may be traveling. Set up a schedule and have them Skype in to share the sites they see along the way.

Suggestions for use: This is perfect for blended learning. Set up a free account, build your quiz and get going. Of course the students will need computers in order to engage. Perfect for a class with tablets.

Suggestions for use: Use this as a colloborative space for brainstorming, presentations or project work in any subject area or theme.

Suggestions for use: Edmodo can be used with your classes to assess students, to share notes, presentations, accept homework assignments.

Suggestions for use: Shows just how quickly you can set up students on Edmodo and gives a good grounding for the functions and features of Edmodo.