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Some Website Resources for Irish Post-Primary Schools

Accounting, Economics, Business

�www.cso.ie

�Central Statistics Office

�Also useful for Geography and History students studying demography, national income etc.

�www.finfacts.ie

�Irish Financial Facts

�www.ibec.ie

�IBEC

�www.ictu.ie

�Irish Congress of Trade Unions

�www.centralbank.ie

�Irish Central Bank

�www.revenue.ie

�Revenue Commissioners

Biology

�http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/

�DNA

�www.abc.net.au/science/lcs/heart.htm

�Open Heart Surgery

�http://frog.edschool.virginia.edu/

�Dissect a Frog

�www.biology.ie

Chemistry

�www.bbc.co.uk/schools/16/chemistry.shtml

�BBC SOS Teacher

�www.schoolscience.co.uk

�School Science

�www.chemistry.ie

Cross-Curricular

www.scoilnet.ie

�Cross-curricular site for Primary and Post-Primary schools

�Sections for Teachers, Students and Parents

�www.skoool.ie

�Cross-curricular website catering for students and teachers

�Note the spelling � especially the third “o�

�www.examinations.ie

• State Examinations Commission

�Past papers, marking schemes, timetables etc.

�http://school.discovery.com

�Discovery School

�Puzzles Maker, Teaching Tools, Lesson Plans

�www.hotpot.uvic.ca

�Hot Potatoes

�Quiz, Cloze Test maker etc. generated as interactive web pages

�www.britannica.com

�Encyclopaedia Britannica

�www.bbc.co.uk/schools

�www.teachnet.ie

�http://ty.slss.ie

�Transition Year

�http://lca.slss.ie

�Leaving Cert Applied

�http://lcvp.slss.ie

�Leaving Cert Vocational Programme

�http://Yahooligans.com

�Search engine for students

�www.google.ie

�Search Engine

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English

�www.sparknotes.com/poetry

�Poetry Guides

�www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare

�Shakespeare notes

�http://www.skoool.ie/skoool/junior.asp?id=1477

�Interactive English Poetry

French

�www.alliance-francaise.ie/home.htm

�Alliance Francaise

�www.french.ie

�Portal Site for Teachers of French

Gaeilge

�www.gaeilge.ie

�Foras na Gaeilge portal site for lots of Gaeilge goodies

�www.englishirishdictionary.com/dictionary

�English-Irish and Irish-English Dictionary

�www.masterit.ie

�Irish Proverbs, Traditional Songs in Irish and English, with music

�www.cnag.ie

�Conradh na Gaeilge

�www.irishforlife.com

�Easyreader

�www.beo.ie

�Beo

�www.crannog.ie/focloir.htm

�English-Irish Dictionary

�www.acmhainn.ie

�Gaeilge resources

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Geography

�www.eduspace.eurisy.org/

�Earth Observation

�www.fourmilab.com/earthview/

�Earth and Moon Viewer

�www.nationalgeographic.com/geographyaction/

�National Geographic

�www.scoilnet.ie/geography

�Geography teachers

History

�www.bbc.co.uk/history

�BBC History Index

�http://www.rte.ie/laweb/index.html

�RT� Archive

�www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/clothing.html

�Life in the middle ages

�www.scoilnet.ie/hist

�History in Service

�www.history.ie

�History teachers

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Home Economics

�www.fsai.ie

�Food Safety

�www.abc.net.au/science/lcs/food.htm

�Interactive Food

�www.abc.net.au/science/2024dreaming/flash.htm

�2024 Dreaming

Internet Safety

�www.ncte.ie

�www.webwise.ie

�www.iab.ie - Internet Advisory Board

�www.makeitsecure.ie

�www.cesi.ie

�Computer Education Society of Ireland

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Mathematics

�www.waldomaths.com

�Waldo’s maths page

�www.sosmath.com/index.html

�SOS Mathematics

Music

�www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/  (Please note there is an underscore between "music" and "resources", i.e. music_resources/)

�Worldwide Internet Music Resources

�www.cmc.ie

�Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland

Physics

�www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp

�Women and Physics

�www.scienceunleashed.ie/

�Science Unleashed

�www.nasa.gov/home

�Space exploration

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Science

�http://www.science.ie

�Science Ireland

�www.webelements.com/

�Interactive Periodic Table

�http://particleadventure.org/

�The Particle Adventure

Subject Associations

�www.htai.ie

�History Teachers� Association

�www.agti.ie

�Geography Teachers� Association

�www.ncte.ie/ICTAdviceSupport/TheInternet/WebHostingDomainRegistration/SiteshostedbyNCTE/SubjectAssociations/

�List of most of the subject associations� sites

Universities � intuitive URLs

�www.tcd.ie

�Trinity

�www.ucd.ie

�UCD

�www.ucc.ie

�UCC

�www.ul.ie

�University of Limerick

etc.

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Visual Arts

�www.nationalgallery.ie

�National Gallery, Dublin

�www.nationalgallery.org.uk

�National Gallery, London

�http://www.artmuseums.com

�Art Ideas

�www.fis.ie

�Film-making training and advice for teachers

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