Primary Schools
Primary Schools
Fun interactive discovery learning style
As a geologist, goldsmith and gemmologist my expertise and interests include – rocks, minerals, fossils, gems and jewellery, earth processes, earth history, mining history, coastal processes, biodiversity and the environment.
At Primary level the focus is on a fun, interactive, discovery learning style.
Raising awareness of the World around us – rocks and minerals, landforms, biodiversity, earth history and human history.
Offering a range of topics incorporating both educational element & fun activity encouraging an inquiring and creative mind and artistic spirit
Because I am also a Heritage Specialist with the Heritage in Schools Scheme all Primary Schools activities offered are subsidised by the HIS Scheme.
Registered with the Teachers Council
Supporting STEM and STEAM based learning
Discover your Environment
Raising awareness of the World around us – rocks and minerals, landforms, biodiversity, earth history and human history. Offering a range of topics incorporating both educational elements & fun activities. Encouraging an inquiring, creative mind and artistic spirit
Fieldtrip
Experience your coastline as an outdoor museum and a living laboratory. Discovery learning through fun games and creative activities, working in groups and teams. Activities such as Beach Detectives are designed to develop observational skills, encourage curiosity and imagination. A scavenger hunt highlights what is natural to the beach and what does not belong. A treasure hunt will exercise both body and mind with clues to solve, questions to answer, a code to decipher and a hidden treasure to find.
What are the rocks along my beach? Incorporates the rock cycle, how rocks and minerals are formed, erosion, plate tectonics, earth history, ancient desert, ocean and volcanic environments. Discover all the different species that inhabit the dynamic environment of our seashore with a rock pool survey combined with a habitat game.
Create a giant mosaic on the sand using all the natural materials found on the beach (Pebbles, Sand, Seaweed & Shells). A Pebble Pledge is a good way of thinking about what we can all do to help conserve and protect the environment.
And if you can’t come to the coastline – no problem! – I will bring the wonders of our planet Earth to your school.
All fieldtrips and school visits are adapted and delivered at a level suitable for the participants.
School Visit
If you can’t come to the coastline – no problem! – I will bring the wonders of our planet Earth to your school with fun presentations, lots of interesting rock, mineral and fossil samples to examine. With fun hands-on activities to explore topics such as volcanoes, earthquakes, rocks, fossils, dinosaurs, the Earth and the Ice Age. Fun activities include creating fossil moulds and casts, cave painting, erupting volcanoes, the solar system or a plate tectonics jigsaw
Choose from the range of topics/activities below, or your school visit can be designed specifically to suit your class’ requirements.
Indoor Activities:
Interactive presentations and fun hands on creative activity
Our Solar System
Learn all about our solar system, the sun the earth and our neighbouring planets
Make a 3-D model of solar system for your classroom
Ancient life
Learn all about ancient life on earth, creatures we no longer see on earth and how they became fossilised.
And learn how to cast your own fossils
Earth History –
Make a large Geological timescale for your classroom. Learn about Geological eras and periods and the evolution of life on our planet
Activity: Create a giant Earth History Poster for your classroom or create an ancient environment eg; Devonian Seascape
Dinosaurs – Dig and Discover
Learn all about dinosaurs and how we find them as fossils. Then join in a big dinosaur skeleton hunt and discover all about the dinosaur you find.
Activity: make clay fossil imprints from the skeletons found.
Alternative activity – create a model of a baby dinosaur hatching.
Ice Age -Early Man.
Learn all about the Ice ages when Ireland was completely covered in snow and ice, and find out what life was like for our ancient ancestors – early man,
Activity: cave paintings
Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics
Learn all about earthquakes, why and where they happen, and what can we learn about the earth by studying them.
Activity: Make a giant plate tectonics clay jigsaw representing present plates and ancient plates
Volcanoes Rocks and Fossils
Discover all about volcanoes, rocks and fossils, then create an erupting volcano in class.
Minerals for living
Learn all about the wonderful minerals we have on Earth and how we use them in our daily lives.
Then create your very own Crystal Geode and see your crystals grow within days.
Booking Procedure
- The School contacts the Heritage Specialist in advance to arrange (a) mutually convenient date(s)
- Once date(s) is/are agreed the school must book the Visit, in advance, through the online booking system located on the Heritage in Schools website: www.heritageinschools.ie
- The Heritage Specialist is paid a fee of €200 per day or €110 per half day (the cost of which is divided between the school and the Heritage Council)
- The School must pay their portion of the fee directly to the Heritage Specialist on each visit.
- The Heritage Expert will need to confirm his/her visit and will require a Heritage Council Visit Confirmation form to be stamped and signed by the School.
Please download Visit Confirmation Form and return it to the heritage specialist, signed and stamped on day of visit
Bookings taken for Full Day or Half Day visit
Select from the range of outdoor activities for a tailor made school fieldtrip.
Or if you would prefer a school visit choose from the range of topics/activities for the classroom.
For further information please contact Keating and Stone
PLEASE NOTE:
All sessions much be booked prior to the visit through:
The Heritage Council,
Church Lane,
Kilkenny
Primary Schools
Fun interactive discovery learning style
As a geologist, goldsmith and gemmologist my expertise and interests include – rocks, minerals, fossils, gems and jewellery, earth processes, earth history, mining history, coastal processes, biodiversity and the environment.
At Primary level the focus is on a fun, interactive, discovery learning style.
Raising awareness of the World around us – rocks and minerals, landforms, biodiversity, earth history and human history.
Offering a range of topics incorporating both educational element & fun activity encouraging an inquiring and creative mind and artistic spirit
Because I am also a Heritage Specialist with the Heritage in Schools Scheme all Primary Schools activities offered are subsidised by the HIS Scheme.
Registered with the Teachers Council
Supporting STEM and STEAM based learning
Discover your Environment
Raising awareness of the World around us – rocks and minerals, landforms, biodiversity, earth history and human history. Offering a range of topics incorporating both educational elements & fun activities. Encouraging an inquiring, creative mind and artistic spirit
Fieldtrip
Experience your coastline as an outdoor museum and a living laboratory. Discovery learning through fun games and creative activities, working in groups and teams. Activities such as Beach Detectives are designed to develop observational skills, encourage curiosity and imagination. A scavenger hunt highlights what is natural to the beach and what does not belong. A treasure hunt will exercise both body and mind with clues to solve, questions to answer, a code to decipher and a hidden treasure to find.
What are the rocks along my beach? Incorporates the rock cycle, how rocks and minerals are formed, erosion, plate tectonics, earth history, ancient desert, ocean and volcanic environments. Discover all the different species that inhabit the dynamic environment of our seashore with a rock pool survey combined with a habitat game.
Create a giant mosaic on the sand using all the natural materials found on the beach (Pebbles, Sand, Seaweed & Shells). A Pebble Pledge is a good way of thinking about what we can all do to help conserve and protect the environment.
And if you can’t come to the coastline – no problem! – I will bring the wonders of our planet Earth to your school.
All fieldtrips and school visits are adapted and delivered at a level suitable for the participants.
School Visit
If you can’t come to the coastline – no problem! – I will bring the wonders of our planet Earth to your school with fun presentations, lots of interesting rock, mineral and fossil samples to examine. With fun hands-on activities to explore topics such as volcanoes, earthquakes, rocks, fossils, dinosaurs, the Earth and the Ice Age. Fun activities include creating fossil moulds and casts, cave painting, erupting volcanoes, the solar system or a plate tectonics jigsaw
Choose from the range of topics/activities below, or your school visit can be designed specifically to suit your class’ requirements.
Indoor Activities:
Interactive presentations and fun hands on creative activity
Our Solar System
Learn all about our solar system, the sun the earth and our neighbouring planets
Make a 3-D model of solar system for your classroom
Ancient life
Learn all about ancient life on earth, creatures we no longer see on earth and how they became fossilised.
And learn how to cast your own fossils
Earth History –
Make a large Geological timescale for your classroom. Learn about Geological eras and periods and the evolution of life on our planet
Activity: Create a giant Earth History Poster for your classroom or create an ancient environment eg; Devonian Seascape
Dinosaurs – Dig and Discover
Dig for dinosaur eggs and excavate dinosaur model inside. Learn all about the dinosaur you find.
Activity: make a model dinosaur
Ice Age -Early Man.
Learn all about the Ice ages when Ireland was completely covered in snow and ice, and find out what life was like for our ancient ancestors – early man,
Activity: cave paintings
Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics
Learn all about earthquakes, why and where they happen, and what can we learn about the earth by studying them.
Activity: Make a giant plate tectonics clay jigsaw representing present plates and ancient plates
Volcanoes Rocks and Fossils
Discover all about volcanoes, rocks and fossils, then create an erupting volcano in class.
Minerals for living
Learn all about the wonderful minerals we have on Earth and how we use them in our daily lives.
Then create your very own Crystal Geode and see your crystals grow within days.
Booking Procedure
- The School contacts the Heritage Specialist in advance to arrange (a) mutually convenient date(s)
- Once date(s) is/are agreed the school must book the Visit, in advance, through the online booking system located on the Heritage in Schools website: www.heritageinschools.ie
- The Heritage Specialist is paid a fee of €200 per day or €110 per half day (the cost of which is divided between the school and the Heritage Council)
- The School must pay their portion of the fee directly to the Heritage Specialist on each visit.
- The Heritage Expert will need to confirm his/her visit and will require a Heritage Council Visit Confirmation form to be stamped and signed by the School.
Please download Visit Confirmation Form and return it to the heritage specialist, signed and stamped on day of visit
Bookings taken for Full Day or Half Day visit
Select from the range of outdoor activities for a tailor made school fieldtrip.
Or if you would prefer a school visit choose from the range of topics/activities for the classroom.
For further information please contact Keating and Stone
PLEASE NOTE:
All sessions much be booked prior to the visit through:
The Heritage Council,
Church Lane,
Kilkenny