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Energy and Forces

Environmental Awareness and Care

Living Things

Experiment Series: Bug Hunt, Exploding Mushrooms, DNA Isolation and Instant Ice

Experiment Series: Bug Hunt, Exploding Mushrooms, DNA Isolation and Instant Ice

Video
Strand Unit: Plant and Animal Life 

Maisie and her siblings show us a series of fascinating experiments, including identifying insects and animals, creating an emulsion that looks like mushrooms exploding, isolating DNA from strawberries, and making instant ice through a crystallisation experiment. 

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Teagasc Marine Research

Teagasc Marine Research

Worksheet
Strand Unit: Plant and Animal Life

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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Tree Activity Pack

Tree Activity Pack

Worksheet
Strand Unit: Plants and Animal Life

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

Forestry Resource Pack

Worksheet
Strand Unit: Plant and Animal Life

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)

Forestry Resource Pack (as Gaeilge)

Worksheet
Strand Unit: Plant and Animal Life

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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Making Soil Texture Shakes

Making Soil Texture Shakes

Video
Strand Unit: Plant and Animal Life

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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Materials

Magic Milk Experiment

Magic Milk Experiment

Video
Strand Unit: Properties and Characteristics of Materials

Katie shows us in this exciting experiment what happens when washing up liquid reacts with milk to break up its components. 

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Magic Milk Experiment Procedure

Magic Milk Experiment Procedure

Experiment Sheet
Strand Unit: Properties and Characteristics of Materials 

Follow this exciting experiment procedure to find out what happens when washing up liquid reacts with milk to break up its components. 

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Milk Plastic Experiment

Milk Plastic Experiment

Video
Strand Unit: Properties and Characteristics of Materials

Did you know you can make plastic out of milk? Watch this experiment to find out how to form curds by reacting milk and vinegar, which you can use to make different shapes!

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