The new GeoSchol.com website about geology for schools
Over 4,000 schools in Ireland, both North and South, have received activity booklets containing geological exercises, games and large posters for their classrooms as part of an educational outreach project by Trinity College Dublin (TCD).
A new website, GeoSchol.com, has digital versions of the geosciences resources, from activity sheets to booklets, as well as links to geology institutions and educational sites.
The initiative is being co-ordinated by Dr Patrick Wyse Jackson from TCD’s Department of Geology and curator of the university’s Geological Museum.
The project is the second phase of an outreach programme that saw rock samples distributed to almost 5,000 schools two years ago.
The programme is supported by Geoschol, which is funded by the Griffith Awards at the Geological Survey of Ireland. It involves a consortium of TCD’s Geological Museum, the National Museum of Ireland and the Ulster Museum.
