In line with its mandate to promote the sustainable development of our marine resources, the Marine Institute has designed a five-day in-service course for National School teachers to introduce marine themes as examples of both skills and content to assist schools in teaching the SESE Science curriculum.
The course includes field trips to a local sandy and rocky seashore, a tour of the Marine Institute Headquarters and laboratories in Oranmore, Galway and practical classroom sessions on how to bring the sea to the classroom through cross curricular activities.
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Teachers pay a visit to the seashore in Galway |
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Teachers use a hoolahoop to find species in a selected area on the Rocky Seashore. |
This course is run annually in July each year in collaboration with the Galway Education Centre.
For further information or to enrol on the training course "The SESE and the Sea - introducing marine subjects into the SESE curriculum" please contact the Galway Education Centre
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Lesson plans from the course are available for teachers to download.
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Demonstrating SESE Strand "Energy and Forces" through a practical study of bouyance by making a working submarine out of a plastic bottle.
Illustration © John Joyce, 2006 |