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Curaclam na Bunscoile: Aonad 5ScienceStrand:Environmental awareness and careStrand Unit: Environmental awarenessObjective:The child should be enabled to:• Become aware of the importance of the earth’s renewable and non-renewable resources• Foster an appreciation of the ways in which people use the earth’s resources• Come to appreciate the need to conserve resourcesStrand Unit: Science and the environmentObjective:The child should be enabled to:• Recognise and investigate aspects of human activities that may have positive or adverseeffects on environmentsStrand Unit: Caring for the environmentObjective:The child should be enabled to:• Participate in activities that contribute to the enhancement of the environment• Identify and discuss a local, national or global environmental issue• Come to appreciate individual, community and national responsibility for environmental careDramaStrand:Drama to explore feelings, knowledge and ideas leading tounderstandingStrand Unit: Exploring and making dramaObjective:The child should be enabled to:• Extend playing in role and in character to include the ability to accept and maintain a briefthat has been decided on by either the teacher, the group or himself/herself• Help to plan dramatic activity to include the particular tension and suspense appropriate tothe theme being exploredStrand Unit:Reflecting on dramaObjective:The child should be enabled to:• Reflect on a particular dramatic action in order to create possible alternative courses forthe action that will reflect more closely the life patterns and issues being examined• Use the sharing of insights arising out of dramatic action to develop the ability to drawconclusions and hypothesise about life and peopleStrand Unit:Co-operating and communicating in making dramaObjective:The child should be enabled to:• Develop, in role, the ability to co-operate and to communicate with others in helping toshape the dramaVisual ArtsStrand:Paint and ColourStrand Unit: Looking and respondingObjective:The child should be enabled to:• Look at and talk about his/her work, the work of other children and the work of artists115