Explore Your Neighbourhood
Explore your neighbourhood using maps, photographs, and your own observation and recording skills to learn how the area you live in has changed over time. Designed for teachers and other educators to learn how to take their learners outside on a learning journey.
Activity Plan 1: – Work with images – preparing to go outside
Activity Plan 2: – Going outside: – Going outside
Learning Resource A: – Using images to stimulate thinking
Learning Resource B – Exploring change by studying maps
Learning Resource C: – Photograph Recording Form
Learning Resource D: – Timeline – Clydebank.
Archaeology Detectives
Explore a site using genuine archaeological skills, both within the classroom and on onsite. Each session can be freestanding, or they can be used together as part of a project. The Project Guide explains how to do this in more detail. All the resources have been designed to support educators with no prior experience, and to require no specialist equipment.
Archaeology Detectives Project Guide
A. Using mapsExplore a site using historic and modern maps. |
B. Using aerial photographsExplore a site using aerial photographs. |
C. Using historic photographsExplore a site using historic photographs. |
D. Surveying your sitePlanning and undertaking a survey of your site. |
E. Photographing your siteRecord the key features of your site using photographs. |
F. Sketching your siteRecord the key features of your site using sketches. |
G. Presenting your informationPresenting your findings about a site. |
Completing an Archaeology Detectives project makes your group eligible for a Heritage Hero Award.