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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. 

    Click here to watch this series of exciting experiments

     

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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. 

    Click here to access Teagasc marine research articles

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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. 

    Click here to access the tree activity pack

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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. 

    Access the forestry resource pack here

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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. 

    Access the forestry resource pack here

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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. 

    Click here to watch the video on making soil shakes

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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. 

    Click here to access the Magic Milk experiment sheet

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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!

    Click here to watch the milk plastic experiment video 

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