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Drama: 5th and 6th Class: A hermit crab's quest to find a new home
The aim of the lesson plan if for the children to extend playing in role and in character as well as develop the ability to accept and maintain a brief that has been decided on by the teacher. The children will develop the ability to co-operate and to communicate with others in helping to shape the drama. The activities will enable students to become familiar with the seashore habitat and seashore species. The lesson plan can also be used to help children become aware of litter issues on the seashore.
Science: 5th Class and 6th Class – Materials and Change - Exploring Desalinating Saltwater (Irish and English Version)
The aim of the lesson plan is for the children to explore the effects of heating on liquids. Desalinating saltwater to create fresh water is used as an example.
English: 3rd and 4th Class - Marine TV and reporting on Marine Pollution (English and Irish version available)
The aim of the lesson plan is for the children to learn how to use key media questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? The children will discuss cause and effect in relation to processes and events and predict possible outcomes. They will also explore reactions to ideas through improvisational drama.
Science: Junior Infants and Senior Infants Class - Designing and Making a Dry Suit for Scuba Steve (Irish and English Version)
The aim of the lesson plan is for the children to identify some materials that are waterproof.
Visual Arts: Junior and Senior Infants Class - Creating Underwater Handprints of Marine Animals under the Sea (English and Irish Version)
The aim of the lesson plan is for children to compose simple shapes and textures of marine animals in the sea using hand prints. They will be enabled to experiment, repeating and combining hand and thumb prints to create an underwater scene and marine animals. They will respond to the prints created in the class by talking about his/her work, as well as the work of other children
Music: 3rd and 4th Class - Listening and Creating Percussion to Sea Songs (Irish and English Version available)
The aim of the lesson plan if for the children to be enabled to perform simple musical pieces that show a developing awareness of musical elements. The child should be enabled to describe and discuss his/her work and the work of other children.
Music: Junior Infants and Senior Infants Class - Creating an Ocean Soundscape using Body Percussion (Irish and English Version available)
The aim of the lesson plan if for the children to enabled to play body percussion instruments developing a sense of pulse, duration, tempo, pitch dynamics, structure and texture.
Maths 3rd Class Measuring Estimating and Comparing Fish Lengths (Irish and English Version available)
The aim of the lesson plan is for children to be enabled to estimate, compare and measure regular and irregular shapes such as fish using standard and non-standard forms of measurement.
English: 1st and 2nd Class – Soundscapes and the Big Blue Sea (English & Irish version)
The aim of the lesson plan is for the children to develop receptiveness to language by listening to stories and responding to them; listening to sounds and responding to them; and using gestures and movement to extend the meaning of what he/she is saying.
Science: 1st Class and 2nd Class_ Exploring Materials which will protect Scuba Steve from Electric Fish (Irish and English Version)
The aim of the lesson plan is for children to identify materials that allow electricity to pass through them. Experiments and demonstrations are to be conducted by the teacher. Students will become aware of the dangers of electricity as well as learn about animals in the ocean that conduct electricity.