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Please note that a non-refundable booking fee of €50 is charged for this course
About This Course:

Objectives/content/outcomes of Course

  • To have an understanding of the environment in a social and scientific sense – 0verview of primary science
  • To enable active exploration and investigation of the environment
    through well-planned practical investigations – workshops & nature
    walks
  • To apply the scientific approach to investigations leading to the  development of important skills-observing, questioning, predicting, investigating, understanding and
    thinking logically about living things and their environments,
    materials, forces, everyday situations and problems.
  • To use ICT in recording and analyzing information and in communicating scientific information and findings.
  • Application of the skills and knowledge acquired through designing
    and making activities in which is perceived a need to create or modify
    elements of the environment. We will use recycled materials to make a
    variety of items e.g. pencil holder, shopping bag........ participants will
    choose.
  • To show that science is an  active process of  personal construction of meaning and understanding
  • To adopt safe practices and to observe safety procedures To provide suggestions for cross-curricular integration
  • To give practical advice on planning at school level and at a class level

Course Properties

Course date 21-08-2017 9:30 am
End Date 25-08-2017 2:00 pm
Capacity 20
Fee €50.00
Tutor - Speaker Michael Browne and Maria Sheehan
Select Hours 20
Location Clare Ed. Centre

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