STEM and the Garden
Resources & Weblinks - STEM & the Garden
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/34916/34675.pdf Added: 24 Nov 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: OtherA list of online resources referenced in the STEM & the Garden webinar.
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Design & Make a Raft
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/34915/34674.pdf Added: 24 Nov 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type:STEM activity where pupils design and make a raft.
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Design & Make a Nest
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/34914/34673.pdf Added: 24 Nov 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: Guide/notesA STEM activity where pupils design and make a nest for a bird.
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Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plant and animal life
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plant and animal life
Bird Hunt
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/34912/34671.pdf Added: 24 Nov 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: Guide/notes / Lesson PlanAn activity which encourages pupils to find native birds in their garden. Could be adapted easily for the school environment. This activity integrates Data, Number and Living Things.
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Battle of the Beaks
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/34911/34670.pdf Added: 24 Nov 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type:In this activity, pupils simulate bird feeding by using a beak to collect food and place it into a stomach.
This practical activity explores beak adaptations in bird populations and looks at the way in which variation in beak shape is related to the available food sources within an environment.
Pollination Resources
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/34910/34669.pdf Added: 24 Nov 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: Guide/notesA list of online resources to support schools in developing an understanding of pollination with pupils.
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Design a Dream Garden
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/34904/34663.pdf Added: 23 Nov 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: Guide/notesFollow the criteria to design a dream garden in this STEM project.
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Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Area
Strand: Shape & Space
Strand unit: 2-D Shapes
Strand: Number
Strand unit: Operations: Addition & Subtraction
Strand: Algebra
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Area
Strand: Shape & Space
Strand unit: 2-D Shapes
Strand: Number
Strand unit: Operations
Strand: Algebra
Strand: Environ. Awareness & Care
Strand unit: Environmental awareness
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plant and animal life
Strand: Environ. Awareness & Care
Strand unit: Environmental awareness
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plant and animal life
Developing Green Fingers with Marrowfat Peas
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/34903/34662.pdf Added: 23 Nov 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: Guide/notesGrowing marrowfat peas to develop STEM concepts.
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Strand: Data
Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- represent and interpret data in two rows or columns using real objects, models and pictures
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Length
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- compare and order objects according to length or height
- develop an understanding of the concept of lengt through exploration, discussion, and use of appropriate vocabulary
- develop an understanding of the concept of length through exploration, discussion, and use of appropriate vocabulary
Strand: Data
Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- represent and interpret data in two, three or four rows or columns using real objects, models and pictures
- represent, read and interpret simple block graphs
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Length
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- estimate, compare, measure and record length using non-standard units
- solve and complete practical tasks and problems involving length
Strand: Data
Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- collect, organise and represent data using pictograms, block graphs and bar charts
- use data sets to solve and complete practical tasks and problems
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Length
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- estimate, compare, measure and record lengths of a wide variety of objects using appropriate metric units (m, cm)
- estimate, compare, measure and record lengths of a wide variety of objects, using appropriate metric units, and selecting suitable instruments of measurement
Strand: Data
Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- collect, organise and represent data using pictograms, single and multiple bar charts and simple pie charts
- collect, organise and represent data using pie charts and trend graphs
- compile and use simple data sets
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Length
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- estimate and measure length using appropriate metric units
- estimate and measure the perimeter of regular and irregular shapes
- rename measures of length
Suirbhé ar Chrainn
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/34902/34661.pdf Added: 23 Nov 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: Guide/notesGníomháiochtaí chun staidéar a dhéanamh ar chrainn sa bhaile nó ar scoil.
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Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plants and Animals
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become aware of animals and plants of other environments
- become aware that animals and plants undergo seasonal change in appearance or behaviour
- observe growth and change in some living things
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plants and Animals
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become familiar with the life cycles of common plants and animals
- observe, identify and explore a variety of living things in local habitats and environments
- recognise and describe the parts of some living things
- recognise that trees are plants
- understand that seasonal changes occur in living things and examine the changes in plant and animal life during the different seasons
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plant and animal life
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- observe and explore some ways in which plant and animal behaviour is influenced by, or adapted to, environmental conditions
- use simple keys to identify common species of plants and animals
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plant and animal life
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become aware of some of the basic life processes in animals and plants
- become aware of the sun as a source of energy for plants through photosynthesis
- become familiar with the characteristics of some major groups of living things
- investigate the factors that affect plant growth
Strand: Data
Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- match sets, equal and unequal
- represent and interpret a set of simple mathematical data using real objects, models and pictures
- sort and classify sets of objects by one criterion
Strand: Data
Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- represent and interpret data in two, three or four rows or columns using real objects, models and pictures
- represent, read and interpret simple block graphs
- sort and classify objects by two and three criteria
Strand: Data
Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- collect, organise and represent data using pictograms, block graphs and bar charts
- collect, organise and represent data using pictograms, block graphs, bar charts and bar-line graphs incorporating the scales 1:2, 1:5, 1:10, and 1:100
Strand: Data
Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- collect, organise and represent data using pictograms, single and multiple bar charts and simple pie charts
- collect, organise and represent data using pie charts and trend graphs
- compile and use simple data sets
Sensory Box/Discovery Bottle
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/34901/34660.pdf Added: 23 Nov 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: Guide/notesThis activity outlines how easily accessible resources from the garden and outdoor environment could be used as a stimulus for discussion and activity across the curriculum.
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- Mathematics
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Capacity
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- develop an understanding of the concept of capacity through exploration and the use of appropriate vocabulary
- select and use appropriate non-standard units to measure capacity
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Capacity
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- develop an understanding of the concept of capacity through exploration and the use of appropriate vocabulary
- select and use appropriate non-standard units to measure capacity
Strand: Early Maths Activities
Strand unit: Classifying
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- classify objects on the basis of one attribute, such as colour, shape, texture or size
- identify the complement of a set (i.e. elements not in a set)
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plants and Animals
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- observe, discuss and identify a variety of plants and animals in different habitats in the immediate environment
- sort and group living things into sets
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plants and Animals
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- group and sort living things into sets according to certain characteristics
- recognise and describe the parts of some living things
Tree Journal
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/34938/34697.pdf Added: 24 Nov 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: Guide/notesActivities which support pupils' observations and develop knowledge of trees in the local environment.
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