Agricultural Science – Leaving Certificate

• Accounting Introduction, Concepts, Bases and Policies
• Double Entry Bookkeeping
• Bank Reconciliation Statements
• Accruals, Prepayments, Capital, Revenue and Bad Debts
• Depreciation
• Control Accounts, Suspense Accounts, Final Accounts (Sole Trader), Company Accounts
• Manufacturing Accounts, Departmental Accounts, Final Accounts
• Published Accounts, Club Accounts, Service Accounts, Farm Accounts, Incomplete Records
• Cash Flow Statements, Interpretation of Accounts, Tabular Statements
• Management Accounting: Costing and Product Costing
• Management Accounting: Marginal Costing (Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis)
• Management Accounting Budgeting, Budget Planning and Budget Control

• Linear Motion
• Vectors
• Relative Velocity
• Projecties
• Connected Particles
• Impacts and Collisions
• Statics
• Rotational Bodies
• Differential Equations

• Exam Paper analysis
• The study of Life - The Scientific Method, The Characteristics of Life Nutrition
• General Principles of Ecology and A Study of an Ecosystem
• The Cell - Cell Structure, Cell Metabolism, Cell Continuity, Cell Diversity and Genetics
• The Organism - Diversity of Organisms, Organisation and the Vascular Structures, Transport and Nutrition.

• People in Business
• Law of Contract
• Solving Consumer and Industrial Conflict
• Enterprise
• Management Skills: Leadership and Motivation, Communication,
• Management Activities, Human Resource Management
• Change in Business, Ratio Analysis
• Tax & Insurance, Finance and Banking
• Stages in the development of a new product or service
• Introduction to Marketing, Marketing mix, Business Expansion
• Types of Business Organisations
• Categories of Industry and Community Development
• The Economy, Ethical and International Business
• The European Union

• History of the Atom, Structure of atom & energy levels
• Periodic Table, Bonding, Bonding Shapes
• Trends and Redox, Molar Calculations
• Acids and Bases
• HL Titrations
• Water Chemistry, Water Experiments and Rates of Reaction
• Gas Laws, Chemical Equilibrium
• Organic Chemistry & Fuels
• Heat of Reaction & Hess’s Law (HL)
• Organic Families, Organic Experiments, Organic Reactions (HL)
• Instrumentation and Radiation
• Redox & electrolysis
• Option Chapters

Welcome to our all new Leaving Certificate Construction Studies course with your teacher Sean Merrins

Please note that lessons will be released on a weekly basis beginning on the 7th November 2022

Course Contents

Course Overview and Planning Permission

 Site selection, Design and Project Planning

Site Safety

Foundations , Ground Floors and Board Drawing

Radon gas and floor types

Internal and External Walls

Timber frame Construction

U- Value

Openings in Walls

Windows and Board Drawings

Roofs

Insulation and Ventilation

Accessibility

Day Practical Marking Out

 Resigning upgrading existing dwelling (Q3)

Environmental Sustainability and NZEB Homes (Q6)

Passive House (Q10)

Mechanical Heat Recovery System (Q10)

• An Introduction to Economics
• The Theory of Demand
• The Theory of Supply
• Price Elasticity
• Production Costs
• Perfect/ Imperfect Competition
• Micro Economics
• Monopolies
• Sample Exam Paper Analysis