Date: 29th September Time: 7 - 8pm
Taking account of current COVID-19 guidelines, investigate a variety of safe, rich, accessible activities for all. This workshop will provide ideas for inquiry and playful learning experiences in pods and bubbles.
The following list of resources were mentioned during the online webinar by the PDST STEM team.
Resources encouraging students to talk and discuss.
Data talks provide a space for students to practice considering and interpreting a variety of data and data representations in a low-stake, exploratory environment. The YouCuded website has some sample data visualisations for you to explore with your class.
View full descriptionStrand: Data
Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data
This sheet may be used by pupils when planning an inquiry, to help them consider their hypothesis, predict what will happen and decide how to make their inquiry a fair test.
View full descriptionBlended learning combines classroom learning with online learning, in which students can, in part, control the time, pace, and place of their learning. Resources mentioned in this section of the webinar include;
Shadows form because light cannot pass through something. The Explorify website has some fun activities about light and shadows for pupils to do at home or at school.
View full descriptionStrand: Energy & Forces
Strand unit: Light
An activity from the PDST Measures Manual, which encourages pupils to measure the weight a tin foil boat will hold.
View full descriptionStrand: Measures
Strand unit: Weight
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Weight
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
The DCU website has access to Real Science for Young Scientists book authored by Cliona Murphy, Nicola Broderick and Lyndsay Kenny. It contains a collection of lessons for teaching about science through inquiry in a primary classroom.
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This manual has been designed by members of the Professional Development Service for Teachers. The aim of this Teacher’s Handbook is to assist teachers in teaching the strand of Measures (infants to 6th
class). This comprises the Strand Units of Length, Area, Weight, Capacity, Time and Money. This resource is
intended to complement and support the implementation of the Primary School Mathematics Curriculum
(PSMC) rather than replace it.
Strand: Measures
Suggestions for use: Teachers should use the handbook as an instructional framework advocating methods of eliciting, supporting and extending higher-order mathematics skills such as reasoning; communicating and expressing; integrating and connecting; and applying and problem solving
Strand: Measures
Suggestions for use: Teachers should use the handbook as an instructional framework advocating methods of eliciting, supporting and extending higher-order mathematics skills such as reasoning; communicating and expressing; integrating and connecting; and applying and problem solving
Strand: Measures
Suggestions for use: Teachers should use the handbook as an instructional framework advocating methods of eliciting, supporting and extending higher-order mathematics skills such as reasoning; communicating and expressing; integrating and connecting; and applying and problem solving
Strand: Measures
Suggestions for use: Teachers should use the handbook as an instructional framework advocating methods of eliciting, supporting and extending higher-order mathematics skills such as reasoning; communicating and expressing; integrating and connecting; and applying and problem solving
Through investigation the child should be enabled to come to appreciate that gravity is a force, SESE: Science Curriculum page 87. In this activity children explore how some things fall and how varying the size of the rotor blades, the shape of the rotor blades and the weight of a paper helicopter affect the way a helicopter spins.
View full descriptionStrand: Energy & Forces
Suggestions for use: This resource can be used as part of a classroom based inquiry facilitated by the classroom teacher.
Strand: Data
Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: To develop cross curricular links to STEM areas
Strand: Continuity & Change Over Time
Strand unit: Transport
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
This resource from sfi.ie examines the mathematics contained in the activity Paper Helicopters.
View full descriptionStrand: Shape & Space
Strand unit: 2-D Shapes
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Strand: Shape & Space
Strand unit: 3-D Shapes
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Length
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Area
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Strand: Number
Strand unit: Operations: Addition & Subtraction
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