Exploring Our World: Junior Cycle Geography · 1st Year · Weather, Climate, and Life · Summer Term

What is Air?

Students will explore that air is all around us, what it's made of in simple terms, and why it's important.

NCCA Curriculum SpecificationsNCCA: Primary Curriculum - Myself and the Wider WorldNCCA: Primary Curriculum - Environmental Awareness and Care

About This Topic

Students will explore that air is all around us, what it's made of in simple terms, and why it's important.

Key Questions

  1. What is air and can we see it?
  2. Why do we need air to live?
  3. What are some things that air can do?

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