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The aim of this experiment is to examine how the differences in water movement between salt water and freshwater and how they interact with each other. The URI link below to the Galway Atlantaquaria website provides photographs of the steps involved in this experiment.

Fifth/Sixth Class. Strand: Mathematics. Strand Unit: Measures, numbers and data

Develop an increasing awareness of plants and animals that live in local marine environments including the seashore, seas and oceans of Ireland. After learning all about the seashore and other marine related lessons, this quiz can be used to evaluate the student’s knowledge of the marine related living things and natural environments. The table quiz can be used as a guide, highlighting facts about the marine environment and some of the animals that live there. Funder: Marine Institute

First and Second Class. Strand: Algebra. Strand Unit: Extending and using patterns

The aim of the lesson plan is for the children to explore new interests and perspectives through reading about the effects of marine litter. The students will continue to develop a range of comprehension strategies to deal with narrative, expository and representational reading materials.

The aim of the lesson plan is for the children to continue to experience the reading process being modelled through receptiveness to language. The children will also engage in shared reading activities.

Planning a trip to the seashore checklist is a useful guide for teachers to use. The checklist covers: Access / Facilities; Risk Assessment; First Aid / Emergency; Tides / Changing Tides / Weather forecast; Volunteers; Games and Activities; Designated Meeting Point; Clothing; Equipment; Games and Activities; Safety on the Seashore - in the classroom / on the seashore; Conservation Code on the Sea Shore; Beach cleaning habits.

In the field of ocean observing, the term of “observatory” is often used without a unique meaning. A clear and unified definition of observatory is needed in order to facilitate the communication in a multidisciplinary community, to capitalize on future technological innovations and to support the observatory design based on societal needs. In this paper, we present a general framework to define the next generation Marine OBservatory (MOB), its capabilities and functionalities in an operational context. The MOB consists of four interconnected components or “gears” (observation infrastructure, cyberinfrastructure, support capacity, and knowledge generation engine) that are constantly and adaptively interacting with each other. Therefore, a MOB is a complex infrastructure focused on a specific geographic area with the primary scope to generate knowledge via data synthesis and thereby addressing scientific, societal, or economic challenges. Long-term sustainability is a key MOB feature that should be guaranteed through an appropriate governance. MOBs should be open to innovations and good practices to reduce operational costs and to allow their development in quality and quantity. A deeper biological understanding of the marine ecosystem should be reached with the proliferation of MOBs, thus contributing to effective conservation of ecosystems and management of human activities in the oceans. We provide an actionable model for the upgrade and development of sustained marine observatories producing knowledge to support science-based economic and societal decisions. Refereed 14.A Manual (incl. handbook, guide, cookbook etc) 2018-09-07

The aim of the lesson plan is for children to identify, explore and discuss aspects of some major natural features in the local environment including a seashore, estuary, bays, inlets, harbours and islands

Using quiz cards about the seashore, the children will work in teams and take part in a relay game (including running, walking, jogging, sprinting, jumping) to test their knowledge about species on the seashore.