by admin | Mar 29, 2013 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, History, Maths, Powerpoint
This Powerpoint presentation shows a selection of images from the pages of a 4th Class Maths Book from 1940’s Ireland. It shows examples of old money (pounds, shillings and pence), old measures of length (miles, perches, furlongs), old measures of capacity...
by admin | Feb 15, 2013 | 5th/6th, History, Powerpoint
This Powerpoint resource deals with one of the most pivotal figures in Irish history – Daniel O’ Connell. It deals with his early life, his fight for Catholic Emancipation, the Catholic Association, the Catholic Rent, the Repeal Association, his Monster...
by admin | Jan 5, 2013 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Science, Video
This video is taken from Dara O Briain’s Science Club series from the BBC. It tells the history of the concept of extinction. A few hundred years ago, extinction as a concept made no sense to anyone. But then fossil finds and advances in geology showed that it’s...
by admin | Jan 5, 2013 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Science, Video
This video is taken from Dara O Briain’s Science Club series from the BBC. It tells the history of how scientists viewed the brain from earliest times. It tells how our understanding of how the brain works and controls our bodies has developed and evolved over the...
by admin | Jan 5, 2013 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Science, Video
This video is taken from Dara O Briain’s Science Club series from the BBC. It tells the history and development of physics from earliest times. Balls, pendulums, apples and magnets all played their part in the story of modern physics, but then things got weird. And...
by admin | Jan 5, 2013 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, History, Video
This video is taken from Dara O Briain’s Science Club series from the BBC. It tells the history of exploration from earliest times, mentioning different types of travel and the instruments that explorers used to navigate ending with modern space exploration…....
