[ Cork City Council - Annual Report 2020 ]
Learning City
program, which is funded by the Marine Institute. The team made the transition to delivering workshops virtually requiring new content to be created including video resources. A total of ninety online sessions engaging 2,070 school children from Cork City primary schools were delivered over the months of November and December. House of Circuits - Primary Science Workshop Following a survey of Cork primary school principals in October, the team at the Lifetime Lab created a new workshop format to meet the needs of science enrichment in schools and also suitable for delivery under COVID-19 restrictions. The new workshop format consists of resources delivered to a class in advance with a live virtual workshop to aid the learning process teaching children about electricity and circuits. This project was successfully awarded funding under the Science Foundation Ireland Discover Call and will be scaled up for roll out in 2021.
Lifetime Lab Annual
The Lifetime Lab in the Old Cork Waterworks is Cork’s primary science centre. It engages primary school children with science and maths (STEM subjects). Lifetime Lab offers a range of SESE curriculum linked, hands on, Discover Primary Science and Maths accredited workshops and school outreach from September to June. Science with Una – A series of short science at home activities were scripted filmed and edited for social media and the web. All videos are available on Facebook and the website. The videos have been a huge success and are currently in use on social media and websites of Cork City Council, Old Cork Waterworks Experience, Science Foundation Ireland and Discover Primary Science and Maths. Explorers Marine Science - Lifetime Lab is the education partner for the Cork region for “Explorers” a primary marine science education
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