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Primary Teachers Course
Every year the Mission Education department hosts a primary school teachers' in-service course. The course, which is called New Eyes to See, aims to help teachers to get their students to engage with the natural environment around them.
The course is run by Ger Clarke, with some inputs from guest speakers such as Sean McDonagh (pictured left ) .
It is very much a hands-on type of course, with a lot of time spent outdoors, as well as work with microscopes on samples collected from the woods and the river.
The course is run twice, each one attended by 25 teachers, and takes place in July and August.
Some web based resources used on the course are available here
Teaching Ecology - Resources
This is a very useful website which helps you to identify a tree or a shrub using a leaf or a twig.
By following answering a series of questions about your sample, you should be able to put a name to it.
As well as helping you to identify the name, use of the key helps to build up knowledge of those elements of a leaf that help with its identification
The site also has ideas for lessons here
