Photostory of the weekend now available to view.
The ISTA Annual Conference took place on 12th-14th April in Gorey, Co Wexford. Prof Ian Robertson, internationally known psychologist, will give an opening talk entitled "The Winner Effect: The Neuroscience of Success and Failure", in the Ashdown Park Hotel.
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KidWind Ireland is a project that seeks to support teachers all over Ireland to access training programs and equipment in wind energy. The course may be useful for Transition Year and the new Junior Cycle activities.
The primary aim of the KidWind program is to train and equip teachers at primary and second level to teach their own students about wind energy and provide knowledge about the industry and topic. The program is aimed at teachers of science, mathematics and geography although others may attend. This 4 day course is hands-on with a practical focus. Participant teachers will receive FREE class materials, lesson plans and FREE wind turbine lab kits to take back to their schools.
Times and locations:
4th-7th of June 2013: Lifetime Lab, Cork City
4th-7th of June 2013: Dublin West Education Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24
10th-13th of June 2013: Donegal Education Centre, Donegal Town
Lunch and refreshments will also be provided during the training.
Registration: Interested teachers can register for the course via the Irish Wind Energy Association Wind SkillNet webpage at http://www.iwea.com/index.cfm/page/upcomingtrainingcourses1
or by email to Deborah@iwea.com
KidWind Ireland is a project that seeks to support teachers all over Ireland to access training programs and equipment in wind energy. The course may be useful for Transition Year and the new Junior Cycle activities.
The primary aim of the KidWind program is to train and equip teachers at primary and second level to teach their own students about wind energy and provide knowledge about the industry and topic. The program is aimed at teachers of science, mathematics and geography although others may attend. This 4 day course is hands-on with a practical focus. Participant teachers will receive FREE class materials, lesson plans and FREE wind turbine lab kits to take back to their schools.
Times and locations:
4th-7th of June 2013: Lifetime Lab, Cork City
4th-7th of June 2013: Dublin West Education Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24
10th-13th of June 2013: Donegal Education Centre, Donegal Town
Lunch and refreshments will also be provided during the training.
Registration: Interested teachers can register for the course via the Irish Wind Energy Association Wind SkillNet webpage at http://www.iwea.com/index.cfm/page/upcomingtrainingcourses1
or by email to Deborah@iwea.com
The following are links to experiments that you can send to your students. Each will download the zipped files needed to run the simulation. Each will…
As part of the 2012 Dublin City of Science Festival, the Institute of Physics in Ireland(IOPI) are proud to announce that they will be hosting a ‘Physics High Flyers’ event on Saturday May 5th in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2.
“Meitheal – Working Together” is the tagline for this year’s annual conference which will take place on 7th-9th April 2017 in Maynooth University. A draft…
