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Class Level and Curriculum
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Senior Classes Primary Schools
SESE Science:
Strand: Living Things
Strand Unit: Plant and Animal Life
* Observe, identify and examine the animals and plants that live
in local habitats and environments.
Junior Certificate English
Word Collecting, Haiku's
and Bog Memories Field Studies
Here are a number of suggestions
for exploring the bog you visit using the senses to guide you.
1 Write at least five words to describe the bog under the headings in the table below:
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2 Use the words in the table above to write a free association of words, a poem, descriptive paragraph or a bog memory.
3 Write a Japanese nature poem or Haiku. It consists of three lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has seven and the third has 5 syllables. Follow these instructions to write a haiku.
a) Choose an object on the bog to write about and give it a name.
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b) Describe it. _______________________________________________________________________
c) Where is it found on the bog? _____________________________________
d) Why did you choose it? _____________________________________
e) Go back over all your answers and underline all the syllables
in them.
f) Arrange the syllables as follows: Line 1 - 5 syllables. Line
2 - 7 syllables. Line 3 - 5 syllables.
- Haiku Name
Line 1______________________________________________________________________
Line 2______________________________________________________________________
Line 3______________________________________________________________________
g) Read it out to members of the group.
4 Use the answers to the activity 3 to make up a Who Am I in the Bog Riddle?
