Resource of the Week Archive
Resource
of the Week
24 May -
30 May 2014
Notice Nature
Public awareness campaign around the importance of biodiversity from the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government. The Learn section covers information on biodiversity, the threats to it and an excellent glossary of terms. The atlas of mammals and the winter surveys are all relevent to class. A Junior section covers the topic for lower Primary.
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Environ. Awareness & Care
Strand unit: Environmental awareness
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become aware of the importance of the Earth's renewable and non-renewable resources
- come to appreciate the need to conserve resources
- identify the interrelationship of the living and non-living elements of local and other environments
- recognise how the actions of people may impact upon environments
Strand: Environ. Awareness & Care
Strand unit: Environmental awareness
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become aware of the importance of the Earth's renewable and non-renewable resources
- explore some examples of the interrelationship of living and non-living aspects of local and other environments
Strand: Environ. Awareness & Care
Strand unit: Environmental awareness
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become aware of the Earth's renewable and non-renewable resources
- come to appreciate the need to conserve the Earth's resources
- develop some awareness of the types of environment which exist in Ireland and other parts of the world
- identify the interrelationships of living and non-living elements of local and other environments
- identify, discuss and record aspects of local natural and human environments which are considered attractive or unattractive
- recognise and investigate human activities which may have positive or adverse effects on local and wider environments
- recognise how the actions of people may have an impact on environments
Strand: Environ. Awareness & Care
Strand unit: Environmental awareness
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- come to appreciate the need to conserve the Earth's resources
- explore some examples of the interrelationship of climate, natural features, flora, fauna and human life in different environments in Ireland and in some of the main climatic regions of the world
- identify, discuss and appreciate attractive and unattractive elements of natural and human environments
- recognise and investigate aspects of human activities which may have positive or adverse effects on environments
Why is it Resource of the Week?
- World Environment Day is coming on Wednesday June 4th, so the resource could be used in class to highlight aspects of biodiversity.
- It is a useful resource to use for cross-curricular teaching in SESS Geography and Science.
- The Atlas of Mammals in Ireland could be used as a template for a study of mammals in your locality.
