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Human Environments
Farm Safety Circle Bookmark
Worksheet
Strand Unit: People Living and Working in the Local Area
Use this handy bookmark to remember the different ways to keep yourself safe on a farm, made in conjunction with AgriKids.
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Jessy Smart Kids - Summer 2021
Newsletter
Strand Unit: Living in the Local Community
Farm safety newsletter with fun crosswords and tips on how to stay safe on the safe.
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Jessy Smart Kids - August 2020
Newsletter
Strand Unit: Living in the Local Community
Farm safety newsletter for kids including safety advice around pesticides and harvest time, as well as a fun crack the code puzzle.
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Jessy Smart Kids - Summer 2020
Newsletter
Strand Unit - Living in the Local Community
Farm safety newsletter containing safety advice on silage and quad bikes. Includes crossword and fermentation experiment.
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Jessy's Smart Kids - 2019
Newsletter
Strand Unit: Living in the Local Community
Farm safety newsletter with safety advice around farm electricity and poisons. Includes crossword and engaging dancing paper experiment.
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Jessy's Smart Kids - Spring 2019
Newsletter
Strand Unit: Living in the Local Community
Farm safety newsletter with activities on safety around animal behaviour. Includes fun facts, crossword and wordsearch.
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Jessy's Smart Kids - Autumn 2018
Newsletter
Strand Unit: Living in the Local Community
Farm safety newsletter with safety advice around tractors and farm signs. Includes fun facts, word search and board game.
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Jerry's Smart Kids - Summer 2018
Newsletter
Strand Unit - Living in the Local Community
Farm safety newsletter containing safety advice around farm signs. Includes crossword, student interview and farm maze.
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Natural Environments
How to make Soil Cakes
Video
Strand unit: Rocks and Soil
Join Luis as he explains the importance of soil, and teaches us how to make soil cakes, along with a fun water retention experiment using your freshly made soil cakes!
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Making Soil Texture Shakes
Video
Strand Unit: Rocks and Soils
Join Luis as he shows us how to make soil texture shakes, a fun experiment that helps us determine the amount of sand, silt and clay in different soil samples.
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Tree Crossword Puzzle
Video
Strand Unit: The local Natural Environment
Test your tree knowledge by using the hints about tree parts to complete this crossword puzzle.
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Tree Activity Pack
Worksheet
Strand Unit: The Local Natural Environment
This pack contains games and activities all about trees, including leaf matching games, tree trunk true or false quiz, tree type wordsearch and plant respiration experiment.
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Forestry Resource Pack
Worksheet
Strand Unit: The Local Natural Environment
This forestry pack goes through the various aspects of a woodland, including tree parts, food webs, pollination, photosynthesis and woodland ecology. Contains question sheets as well as experiment protocols. Produced in conjunction with The Tree Council of Ireland.
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Forestry Resource Pack (as Gaeilge)
Worksheet
Strand Unit: The Local Natural Environment
This forestry pack goes through the various aspects of a woodland, including tree parts, food webs, pollination, photosynthesis and woodland ecology. Contains question sheets as well as experiment protocols. Produced in conjunction with The Tree Council of Ireland.
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Seaweed Quiz
Worksheet
Strand Unit: Land, Rivers and Seas of my Country
Test your knowledge with this multiple choice seaweed quiz.
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Teagasc Marine Research
Worksheet
Strand Unit: Land, Rivers and Seas of my Country
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A series of easy to understand articles about Teagasc's marine research. Includes QR codes for more information about article topics and link to Science Squad RTE video.
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