Скачать или смотреть The Salmon, Scoil Náisiúnta Baile Chláir na Gaillimhe, (Claregalway), 2003

A study of the salmon by fourth class of Scoil Náisiúnta Baile Chláir na Gaillimhe (Claregalway) from 2003 made as part of the Fionn Primary School Science Project. The children involved in this particular science project made a fantastic 3-D model of salmon leaping up a weir.
Mentors for the Salmon project were Danny Goldrick of the Western Regional Fisheries Board, visiting art teacher Stephen Ryan and the staff of Galway Atlantaquria.
Fionn supervisor in the school was principal Pat Coen.

Fionn was a government-funded programme that ran from school year 2001/2002 to 2004/2005 to prepare teachers for the introduction of science into the Irish primary curriculum which took place in September 2004. It was launched under the auspices of Noel Treacy TD, Minister for Science, Technology and Commerce. The pilot scheme involved 35 Galway city and county primary schools and was organised by the Galway Education Centre with its director Bernard Kirk as overseer, Ciaran Folan as technical advisor and Brendan Smith as its coordinator. Diarmuid O'Riordan developed its website with Lol Hardiman, Podge Daly, Diarmuid Mullen and Martin O'Ceidigh providing artistic support mentoring to the schools.

Each participating school was provided with a laptop (Apple iBook), a high speed digital phone line (ISDN), a hand held video camera, movie editing software (iMovie) and video production training in order to make a series of child-centric films every year for four years related to science and technology but taking in other aspects of the school curriculum such as languages, music, history, geography and art. The completed films each year were hosted on a Dept of Education website, giving schools their first presence on the World Wide Web.

All of these technologies were innovative and new to schools in this era and combined with a strong 'fun', local and cross-curriculum ethos, Fionn schools led the way in pioneering the successful introduction to the teaching of science in the Irish Primary School sector.
For four consecutive years, the Fionn schools formed the major educational component of the annual fair of the Galway Science and Technology Festival that was during this period held in Leisureland and the Galway Bay Hotel in Salthill.