A visit to Croke Park on match day, including features on the Law of the Lever, inertia and blood. Watch more episodes here!
TEACHERS TIPS
Levers
Subject: Science
Strand/ Strand Unit: Energy & Forces/Forces
Class: 3rd & 4th
- explore how levers may be used to help lift different objects
Subject: Science
Strand/ Strand Unit: Energy & Forces/Forces
Class: 5th & 6th
- identify and explore how objects and materials may be moved
- explore how levers may be used to help lift different objects
Data Analysis
Subject: Maths
Strand/ Strand Unit: Data/Representing & Interpreting Data
Class: 3rd & 4th
- use data sets to solve and complete practical tasks and problems
Subject: Maths
Strand/ Strand Unit: Data/Representing & Interpreting Data
Class: 5th & 6th
- use data sets to solve problems
- explore and calculate averages of simple data sets
- compile and use simple data sets
Forces & Gravity
Subject: Science
Strand/ Strand Unit: Energy & Forces/Forces
Class: 3rd & 4th
- investigate falling objects
- explore how objects may be moved
- explore the effect of friction on movement through experimenting with toys and objects on various surfaces
Subject: Science
Strand/ Strand Unit: Energy & Forces/Forces
Class: 5th & 6th
- identify and explore how objects and materials may be moved
- come to appreciate that gravity is a force
- become aware that objects have weight because of the pull of gravity
- explore how levers may be used to help lift different objects
Weight
Subject: Maths
Strand/ Strand Unit: Measures/Weight
Class: 5th & 6th
- rename measures of weight
- estimate and measure weight using appropriate metric units
Subject: Science
Strand/ Strand Unit: Energy & Forces/Forces
Class: 5th & 6th
- become aware that objects have weight because of the pull of gravity
Subject: Maths
Strand/ Strand Unit: Measures/Time
Class: 3rd & 4th
- estimate, compare, measure and record the weight of a wide variety of objects using appropriate metric units (kg, g) and selecting suitable instruments of measurement
Liquid
Subject: Science
Strand/ Strand Unit: Materials/Materials & Change
Class: 3rd & 4th
- explore the effects of heating and cooling on a range of solids, liquids and gases
- investigate how a wide range of materials may be changed by mixing
- recognise that materials can be in solid, liquid or gas form
Subject: Science
Strand/ Strand Unit: Materials/Materials & Change
Class: 5th & 6th
- explore the effects of heating and cooling on a range of solids, liquids and gases
- investigate how a wide range of materials may be changed by mixing
- recognise that materials can be in solid, liquid or gas form
Subject: Science
Strand/ Strand Unit: Materials/Properties & Characteristics of Materials
Class: 5th & 6th
- recognise that materials can be solid, liquid or gaseous
Area – Square Metres
Subject: Maths
Strand/ Strand Unit: Measures/Area
Class: 4th
- estimate, compare and measure the area of regular and irregular shapes
Subject: Maths
Strand/ Strand Unit: Measures/Area
Class: 5th
- discover that the area of a rectangle is length by breadth
- calculate area using square centimetres and square metres
Subject: Maths
Strand/ Strand Unit: Measures/Area
Class: 6th
- identify the relationship between square metres and square centimetres
- calculate area using acres and hectares
Distance
Subject: Geography
Strand/ Strand Unit: Natural Environments/The Local Natural Environment
Class: 3rd & 4th
- estimate distances and establish cardinal directions during the exploration of these features
Subject: Maths
Strand/ Strand Unit: Measures/Length
Class: 5th
- select and use appropriate instruments of measurement
- estimate and measure length using appropriate metric units
Subject: Maths
Strand/ Strand Unit: Measures/Length
Class: 6th
- explore the relationship between time, distance and average speed
Angles
Subject: Maths
Strand/ Strand Unit: Shape & Space/Lines & Angles
Class: 3rd, 4th & 5th
- draw, discuss and describe intersecting lines and their angles
- classify angles as greater than, less than or equal to a right angle
- solve problems involving lines and angles
Subject: Maths
Strand/ Strand Unit: Shape & Space/Lines & Angles
Class: 6th
- explore the sum of the angles in a quadrilateral
- estimate, measure and construct angles in degrees
- recognise angles in terms of a rotation
- recognise, classify and describe angles and relate angles to shape
Satellites
Subject: Science
Strand/ Strand Unit: Environmental Awareness & Care/Science and the Environment
Class: 5th & 6th
- examine some ways that science and technology have contributed positively to the use of the Earth’s resources
