Education Packs
Archival material can provide a fascinating resource for teaching in both primary and secondary schools in a variety of subjects.
Education is a key outreach activity for the Heritage Hub, and we provide education packs to aid teaching in schools free of charge.
The education packs
- are designed to support the Curriculum for Excellence
- typically include archival source material, teachers’ guidance notes and worksheets for pupils.
we are happy to accommodate school visits to the Hub to support the use of our education packs.
Below is a list of education packs available so far.
If we don’t have a pack on the topic you are teaching, contact us to ask if we can put one together to suit you.
Christmas Past Postcard Pack
Free Resource for Schools
(5Mb Zip file containing pdf files*)
Use the Christmas images from the archives to prompt discussion in class about Christmas in the past. Children can then use the images as inspiration to send a Christmas Past postcard to the present day, drawing a picture on one side and writing a message on the other.
If you would like to send the finished postcards to the Heritage Hub, we will put them in our Christmas post box, which will be opened for our Christmas open event on 17 December 2009. The postcards will be put on display at the Heritage Hub.
Paper dolls
Free Resource for Schools
(5Mb Zip file containing pdf files*)
Download the paper doll templates and colour them in to create your own historical outfits.
Dress the Laird of Kimergeme, otherwise known as 'Your Worchepe Sellf', or a 19th-century bondager, a type of female farm worker.
Clothes and Advertising
Free Resource for Schools
(5Mb Zip file containing pdf files*)
How do you persuade someone to buy an item of clothing? How have clothes been advertised in the past?
Use the archival resources and suggested activities to stimulate discussion in class, and get your pupils to create their own clothes adverts in the style of times past...
Healthy Living (3.2Mb Zip file containing pdf files*)
Explore how people lived healthily (or unhealthily!) in the Borders 100 years ago.
Focusing on the themes of food, exercise and hygiene, the archival material includes entries from school log books, photographs and postcards and newspaper excerpts.
World War 2 in the Borders
(5 Zip files containing pdf files and images*)
This archival resource contains resources for teaching World War II in primary schools. The material is organised into 5 thematic areas, and includes sample activity sheets for use in class.
In addition there is a German language activity sheet for use with S1-S2 pupils in the section “News from the War – Prisoner of War”.
- Attack and Defence (3Mb)
- Evacuation (2.9Mb)
- Life on the Home Front (7.7Mb)
- News from the War – Prisoner of War (3.7Mb)
- War Work (2Mb)
*After the zip file has downloaded you will need to extract it:
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'double-click' the 'zip' file
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for some computers this might be enough - the file may automatically extract and be now sitting beside the downloaded file
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for others - you will now have to click the extract button at the top of the window
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A new window will open - asking where you want to save it - just click 'extract' on the right
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the files should now be sitting beside the file you downloaded (or in the location you specified).
