Latest News from It's About Time! Press Release History is an important part of children's education but is often perceived as a difficult subject to teach in today's classroom. The challenge of making history an exciting and interesting learning experience is taken up by the resource pack Archaeology in the Classroom- Its About Time. This resource is a joint project between the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government and The Department of Education and Science. It was developed by Limerick Education Centre in conjunction with the Primary Curriculum Support Service.

Archaeology encompasses both prehistoric and historic evidence, and this resource will assist teachers in providing an exciting range of evidence-based learning opportunities for pupils. In a very practical way, it will enable teachers to introduce the concept of learning about our past through the evidence that is all around us. It will help teachers and pupils to examine their own environments through exploring streetscapes, local maps, and old photographs. It explains how older evidence in the locality and from other places can be examined and interpreted to reveal information about the lives of people in the past.

The twelve modules in the resource are expertly designed to foster the skills identified in the Primary School Curriculum – such as recognising cause and effect, understanding chronology and a sense of time, and recognising change and continuity.

In conjunction with the resource pack a website www.itsabouttime.ie < http://www.itsabouttime.ie/ >  has been developed. Both the resource and the website will be launched by Peter Power TD at the Limerick Education Centre on Friday 28th October.