Welcome to Bogs in the Classroom. This educational web site focusing on bog field studies has been developed by the Irish Peatland Conservation Council with a grant from the Research & Development Committee of the Department of Education and Science, Ireland.

We are pleased to present materials to help you prepare primary, post primary and third level students for a field trip to a bog, suggestions for field investigations you might like to undertake and follow up activities to complete your study.

Bogs are widespread in Ireland and all over the world. A range of studies can be carried out from those that focus on the ecological aspects of the bog habitat to those that look at their historical and cultural hertiage or at the environmental issues raised through the various uses of peat.

The material is presented in seven modules - 6 subject modules and a resources module. Materials for primary and post primary students are separated within the subject modules. Each module includes information regarding the class level and curriculum links for which they are intended with special emphasis on Primary SESE and Post Primary Leaving Certificate Biology and Geography Curricula. A brief description of the content of each module is provided together with an immediate link to the material below.

Material in the resources module is to be used generally by both primary and post primary teachers depending on the work programme being undertaken. Within this module there are suggested study programmes for primary and post primary students, tips for teachers intending to undertake a field trip and there is a questions and answers section. IPCC will be happy to answer any queries you have. You can email us from the home page of our website.

If you wish to print pages from this site, please ensure to adjust your page margins to 10mm all round so that the material fits on an A4 page.

 
 Resources on Bogs

Includes resources for general use by teachers of primary and post primary students such as: bog formation models, bog plant identification dial, bog animal identification dial, bog plant book, bog animal book, bog bird book, wild boglands questionnaire, conservation evaluation of a bog, bog field studies programmes, further printed and audiovisual resources, other web sites to link with, tips for teachers and questions and answers.

 
 Art Module

Includes materials for use by primary school SESE teachers and Junior Certificate teachers such as: making St Bridget Crosses, making dream catchers, an eye on boglands art field studies, multi-sensory field investigations of bogs.

English Module

Includes materials for use by primary school SESE teachers, Junior Certificate and transition year teachers such as: word collecting, haiku's and bog memories written studies, along came man debate.

 
 Gaeilge Module

Includes An portach Aonad na Gaeilge agus Sean Bhóthar Phortaigh for Junior Certificate and transition year teachers.

 
 History Module

Includes materials for use by primary school SESE teachers, Junior Certificate and transition year teachers such as: Bog bodies and turf bank investigations to make a bog calendar, mapping a fossil pine woodland.

Geography Module

Includes materials for use by primary school SESE teachers, Junior Certificate, transition year and Leaving Certificate teachers such as: Investigations of peat soil and composting, gardening audit, the bog debate site case studies, investigating the effects of turf cutting on the bog.

 
 Science Module

Includes a day on the bog field studies activities for primary school SESE teachers and the following materials for Junior Certificate Science, Transition Year and Leaving Certificate Biology teachers: quadrat study of wet and dry bog, bog food webs, bog pool dipping, Sphagnum moss investigation, habitat study, zonation on the bog, belt transect study of zonation on the bog, species recording, adaptations, seed dispersal and interdependence on the bog.
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The research described in this website was supported by a grant from the Research & Development Committee of the Department of Education and Science. The views expressed in this website are those of the Irish Peatland Conservation Council and do not necessarily reflect the views or policy of the
Department of Education and Science.

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