Skip to Main Content

Teaching Collection: Resource Packs

Our Teaching Collection provides for practical aspects of primary teaching in Ireland. This guide describes what's in it.

Introduction

The Library holds a number of primary resource packs that contain loose-leaf information around a topic. All are in the Reserve Collection and available for 3 hour loan.

List of Resource Packs for Geography

1G Bangalore: Indian city life 13G Feeling good about faraway friends (Masai family in Kenya)
2G Baricho: a village in Kenya 14G Go bananas! (journey of a banana)
3G Benin: an African kingdom 16G Kaptalamwa: a village in Kenya
4G Bia ón bhfeirm 17g Kids like us: Irish and Kenyan kids together

5G Brazil in the school (download@brazilintheschool.org)

19G Ladakh (Tibet)
6G Cairo 20G Living and learning in a Tanzanian village: a child’s perspective
8G The chocolate trade game 21G Living and learning in a Tanzanian village: update
9G The clothes line 22G Montreuil: a European place to study
10G Dig in! : learning about farming and food 24G Our world, our future: a teaching resource on development
  25G Pampagrande: a Peruvian village
  26G Questioning tourists
11G The earth, sun and moon 27aG Sahan (Somalia) : for guides and senior branch
12G Family life and the 5 Rs - reduce, reuse, refill, repair, recycle 28G Shops and markets (Primary topic posters)
  29G Speaking for ourselves, listening to others (Kenya)
  31G Focus on Castries
  32G The thread of Nile
  33G The trading game
  34G Uganda: primary teaching packs 1 & 2
  35G Water issues - local and global
  36G A week with a family in Kenya
  37G Where camels are better than cars (Mali)
  38G World Wide Waste
  39G School works! child labour, the right to education and fairtrade
  40G Thengapalli: locality study (India)
  41G Eco Detectives
  42G Eco Detectives (Gaeilge)
  43G Cities
  44G Food
  45G Homes
  46G Transport
  47G Water
  48G Bangladesh
  49G Food for thought
  50G From Bangalore to Chembakolli
  51G Living in the freezer

 

List of Resource Packs for Miscellaneous Subjects

1M Ancient Egypt 17M Physical features
2M Ancient Greece 18M Romans and their origins
3M Anglosaxons 19M Victorian children
5M Colour photo pack 20M Victorian toys
6M endangered animals 21M Vikings and their origins
  22M Weather photo pack
7M Festivals 23M Weather resource pack
8M First steps in rights; activities for 3-7 year olds 24M Team spirit
9M Games we play: intercultural understanding 25M Memory box
11M Key figures and saints  26M New beginnings
12M Minibeasts 27M Briefs on Islam
13M Our bodies 28M Stations of the cross
14M Partners in rights: creative activities for 7-14 year olds 29M Art in a box : 20 activity cards
15M-16M Photo opportunities: maths, science  31M Mini volley cards
  32M Volley sports cards

 

List of Resource Packs for History

1H The Act of Union 22aH 1916 Rising. Kilmainham Gaol documents
2H Athbheochan Na Gaeilge 22bH 1916 Rising. National Library. Personalities and perspectives
3H Catholic emancipation 22cH Irish Times supplement 2006
4H The Crocus Project 23H The land war 1879-1903
5H Daily life in a wartime house 1939-1945 24H The landed gentry
6H Daniel O’Connell 25H The national schools
7H 18th century Ulster emigration to North America 26H The ‘98 rebellion
8H Evacuees 27H Padraic Mac Piarais
  28H The past from the press
10H Famine Ireland 1845-1945 29H The penal laws
11H Grattan's parliament 30H Robert Emmett: the insurrection 1803
12H The great Irish famine 31H Steps to partition
13H Historic Dublin map 32H The United Irishmen
14H Ireland after the glorious revolution 33H The volunteers, 1778-1784
15H Ireland fom maps  
16H Ireland 1860-1880 from stereo photographs 35H Titanic memorabilia
17H Irish elections 36H The great fire of London
18h James Joyce 38H Posters from the home front 1939-1945
19H Kilmainham Gaol documents 39H Seaside holidays in the past
20H Kilmainham Gaol : Parnell  
21H Kilmainham Gaol :1796-1849  

 

Useful Links