Senior Cycle Agricultural Science - Key Skills

Below are some general strategies to assist with teaching and learning in your science classroom that have been produced by the support services.

This section outlines some of the action research undertaken by Irish teachers in their classrooms on various active teaching methodologies.

Learning	Assessment
Using posters to enhance learning	Comment Only Marking
Relating syllabus to everyday life	Peer Set Questions
Homework	Questions For Success
Questions	Using traffic Lights for Self Assessment
Students writing definitions	Using Prior Knowledge
Keywords to improve literacy	Using seen tests
Using a starter workbook	Students creating questions for tests
Use of visuals	Using symbols instead of marks for grading
Using Cooperative learning	Using Continuous Assessment
Teaching without a Text Book	Using Crosswords
Peer teaching
ICT	Revision
Digital Photography	Cooperative learning for revision
Hot potatoes	Concept mapping
Using Photostory	Mind mapping
Using dataloggers	Students making their own notes
Using a Camera	Students making sample answers
Death by powerpoint	Powerpoint as revision tool
Integration of ICT	Posters for revision
Demonstration vs Observation	Revision how?
Revision techniques

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