Useful sources found locally:
Oral Evidence:
Useful sources found locally:
- Pictures and drawings found in old books.
- Old pictures from home.
- Pictures of local buildings sourced from libraries, museums and local historians.
- Maps of the locality from different eras, sourced from local libraries, can be compared and contrasted, integrated with Geography.
- Pictures can be presented divided in sections and pupils can be asked to match or construct a statement for each section.
- Speech bubbles can be placed over pictures of people and pupils can be asked to write a sentence that depicts what the person was thinking when the picture was taken.
- Venn diagrams can be used and pupils can place sections of copied pictures into then, now, same sections of diagram, communicating their ideas visually.
The following captions could be clicked on to show associated documents.
Captions relate to file names in folder 'pictorial evidence' on disk 'media bank'.
- Raheny Bread Van, used in Raheny from c. 1900 – 1956.
- Bus 1930-1936
- Bus 1937
- Howth Bus 1948-1958
- Crescent Cottages Raheny
- Rathmore House, Raheny
- Edenmore House, Raheny
- Aerial Map Raheny
- Aerial Map Raheny c. early 20th century
- Dublin Barony Map 1901
- OS Map Raheny 1843
- OS Map Raheny 1936-37
Oral Evidence:
Useful sources found locally:
- Interviews with family members
- Pupils can plan, conduct and share interviews with the class and these types of activities present opportunities for learning that move away from traditional methods of teaching history
If possible, the media file could be listed with their associated file names as captions.