Primary School Visits Bog of Allen Nature Centre
- Bog of Allen Nature Centre Location: Lullymore, Rathangan, Co. Kildare
- Tutor: Nuala Madigan, Education Officer, Irish Peatland Conservation Council
- Available all year round
- Cost: €6.50 per student for a three hour programme
- Booking contact: telephone Nuala on 045-860133 or email bogs@ipcc.ie
- Download our School Visits to the Bog of Allen Nature Centre Brochure
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 Discover the Wildlife Gardens and Carnivorous Greenhouse |
IPCC’s Primary School Visits can be conducted on location at the Bog of Allen Nature Centre or can be based at your school location. Choose from two programmes:
- Discover Primary Science ‘Walk on Water Ecology of Bogs‘ links with the DPS Surface Tension and Bubbles activity sheet and extends it to a field study investigation of a bogland habitat. Click here you would like to watch a video programme of Allenwood National School on a Discover Primary Science visit to the Bog of Allen Nature Centre.
- Nature Outside the Classroom – Primary Science. This programme includes a guided visit to the Peatland Nature Museum at our centre, a quiz and a choice of two further activities from the following list: pond dipping, woodland mini-beasts, traditional Irish cottage, nature crafts, multi-sensory earth walk, visit to Lodge Bog a conserved raised peatland and flytraps insect eating plants.
Alternatively we provide visits under the Heritage and School Scheme. ‘Bringing Bogs into the Classroom’ offers your students an opportunity to study a peatland local to your school or indeed simply study peatlands within their classroom.
 Bog Formation: Bog in a Bottle |
 Pond Dipping for Mini Beasts |
 Bog Plant Studies: Adaptations |