Learning Path
Outdoor Science: 5th & 6th Learning Path
By Moira Lambe
Experiments, challenges and activities to bring your lessons to life outdoors.
4 resources in this Learning Path
1
Ball Run STEM Challenge
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/35961/35729.pdf Added: 28 Apr 2021 Contributor: Moira Lambe Resource type: Lesson Plan / ActivityFind a ball and make it travel in a fun way. Think tubes, pipes, ramps, funnels – whatever you have to hand! Can you make your ball change direction more than once? Travel in a circle? Change speed? Etc…
Resource provided by the UK Learning through Landscapes initiative.
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Energy & Forces
Suggestions for use: Divide your class into groups and allow them to create their own ball run using materials that are easily found at home and at school.
Strand: Energy & Forces
Suggestions for use: Divide your class into groups and allow them to create their own ball run using materials that are easily found at home and at school.
Strand: Useful Websites
Suggestions for use: Divide your class into groups and allow them to create their own ball run using materials that are easily found at home and at school.
Strand: Useful Websites
Suggestions for use: Divide your class into groups and allow them to create their own ball run using materials that are easily found at home and at school.
2
Ways to Measure a Tree Challenge
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/35973/35741.pdf Added: 29 Apr 2021 Contributor: Moira Lambe Resource type: Lesson Plan / ActivityTake your maths lessons outdoors and find out different ways of measuring. This document includes a variety of simple and more complex methods to measure the height of a tree.
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- 5-6
- Mathematics
Strand: Measures
Suggestions for use: Take your class outdoors and explore different methods of measurement. Divide into groups or set individual challenges.
3
Sunflower Planting, Study and Comprehension
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/36103/35871.pdf Added: 06 May 2021 Contributor: Scoilnet Resource type: Lesson Plan / Primary Source / WorksheetGet your class interested in nature and the outdoors. Help them to plant their own sunflowers, track their growth and bring the lesson back to the classroom with the sunflower comprehension.
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- 5-6
- SESE Science
Strand: Environ. Awareness & Care
Suggestions for use: Learn interesting facts about sunflowers. Plant your own individually or in groups. Track their progress using the worksheet attached.
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Scoilnet Maps
https://maps.scoilnet.ie/ Added: 06 Feb 2008 Contributor: Scoilnet Resource type: Guide/notes / Lesson Plan / ToolProvides access to detailed Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) maps, including historical maps, and aerial photographs. Enables easy comparison between maps and images. Also allows user to create, copy and adapt resources for their particular use. Two versions available - one for iPads/tablets and a Flash-based version for IWB and PCs/laptops. The World Maps viewer contains superb satellite images/photos of Ireland and is fully accessible from inside and outside the Schools Broadband Network (SBN). The OSi Maps viewer is restricted to the SBN but teachers with a Scoilnet Account can access via log-in.
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