Internet in the Classroom

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

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

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

•RTÉ 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

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

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
 

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.

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