Attention Galway teachers! Sign up for the Explorers Education Programme CPD Teachers Training for Exploring the Seashore using creative cross curricular learning and skills development.
The training takes place from the 1-5th of July.
Book at Galway Education Centre…

Explorers Outreach officer Eoin Mc Mahon was delighted to attend the South East Province Scout conference on the 20th April in the Woodford Dolmen hotel in Carlow, where he introduced scout leaders and members to the Explorers Education Programme, the Real Map of Ireland,…

We are excited to share that our annual Ocean Literacy, Engagement & Impact Report for 2023 has been published. The report highlights loads of new activities we provide to schools in support of the new Primary School Curriculum Framework, 2023.

One major highlight of the year…

Hello all teachers! Sign up for the Explorers Education Programme Online CPD Training course for Exploring the Seashore using creative cross curricular learning and skills development. Lots of great content and activities to discover!
The course can be completed at your own pace…

We're so excited to share! Our online CPD teachers training has great new content to engage teachers and their students and to make learning about our ocean a fun and impactful experience for everyone.

The training course runs this summer from 1 July - 16 August. For more…

Native Species Weekend is Back!

The Marine Institutes Explorers Education Programme Team is delighted to be back at Native Species Weekend in Dublin Zoo this year. On May 11th and 12th we look forward to joining more than 20 Irish conservation organisations, government bodies,…

The Explorers' brilliant education officer, Mona spent time with some of Ireland's brightest future educators to discuss our connection with, and dependency on, our amazing ocean! Bringing this wisdom into classrooms is the foundation of what we do and we are so thrilled to be…

Celebrate local biodiversity at Dublin Zoo's Native Species Weekend. Come see the Explorers along with other Conservation Partners and discover exciting activities the whole family will enjoy!
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Dublin Zoo Chris Tyldesley

Hi Kerry teachers!! Sign up for our Training event for Exploring the Seashore using creative cross curricular learning and skills development.
The event takes place from the 1-5th of July.
Book at Tralee Education Support Centre
#keepexploring
Chris Tyldesley

Attention teachers! Sign up for our Training event for Exploring the Seashore using creative cross curricular learning and skills development.
The event takes place from the 1-5th of July.
Book at Galway EC
Marine Institute
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We are so excited about RTÉjr Science of Sense podcast featuring our Explorer's Mona McCrea, recorded last year. We're sharing it again!

'Science of Sense is among the top 15 most listened to shows on RTE Jr and also on their own RTE podcast platform and apple podcast!'
A big…

John Philip Holland, from County Clare, in Ireland was an Irish engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy and was launched in 1897!
Check out our great lesson plans and learn all about submarines and other Irish maritime achievements!…

Sibeal, one of the Explorers Education Programme Outreach Officers was delighted to 'talk' Turtle Talk all about Sea Turtles, and share our Explorers teachers resources in Barcelona today. Sibeal shared some of the leading work we do with schools in Ireland that is funded by the…

We know that getting outside helps us feel good. Being near the ocean has extra wondrous impacts, with a sensory cocktail that's perfect for helping us breathe and feel more grounded🌊🐚. From the sights to the smells, sounds and the feeling of the stony, sandy, salt watery…

Happy Manatee Appreciation Day!!
Also known as sea cows🐄, manatees are peaceful, slow-moving vegetarian marine mammals, feasting on sea grass, algae and mangrove leaves🌱. They are sirenians, taken from the word sea SIREN because surfacing manatees were thought to be mermaids🧜‍♀️…

It's not your granny's Easter egg hunt, but hear us out! 🐰🐣🪺

This year, have an Explorer's Egg Hunt... a shark or skate egg hunt, that is! Using our new Mermaid's Purse Identification Key! 🧜‍♀️🧜🧜‍♂️

It's kinda like a scavenger hunt, kinda like an Easter egg hunt, either way,…

The Marine Institute Explorers Educational Programme team were delighted to meet Educational Passages on their recent visit to Ireland from the USA. Educational Passages is an amazing programme that connects us across the Atlantic, where school children (and adults too) can track…

'Sharks like to taste their food before feasting. Their throat is lined with papillae that contains taste buds. After the first bite, the shark can change its mind and reject the food if it doesn’t like it!' - Friederike Eimer
For more awesome elasmobranch facts, see our new…

Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone!
With love from The Explorers Programme and all of our beautiful native Irish creatures of the sea, including the very patriotic green nudibranch! ☘️
#KeepExploring #paddysday2024
@marineinst

We're so excited to launch our newly updated 🐚Wild About Wildlife on the Seashore🐚 workbook, which is also done in Irish and being used as a key teaching resource for student teachers at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick.

🧑‍🔬 bit.ly/3IEkE4z

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