Stone, Sea and Sky - education pack!
Home schooling your kids for the foreseeable future as we all stay safe at home? We've got you covered! Our Stone, Sea and Sky toolkit has just been released and is filled to the brim with ideas of how to engage children and young people with the buildings, places and spaces around them. And the best part? We've released it in both English and Gaelic!
Most of the toolkit activities can be completed inside - including ideas of how to chat with children about about local buildings and their sense of place, and an activity for children to redesign buildings in their area. The toolkit does suggest a wee walk outside to see some local buildings; this could be completed as your government-allotted one piece of exercise a day. Assuming, of course, that everyone maintains good social distancing!
Stone, Sea and Sky: The Architecture of Scotland’s Islands was a Doors Open Days 30th anniversary project that celebrated the buildings, places and communities of Scotland’s Western Islands. In September 2019, we hosted free workshops for school pupils across venues in the Western Isles and Argyll and the islands. These workshops encouraged children and young people to gain a sense of the built structures that form local civic identity and explore their local areas through a playful investigation of places.
As a legacy of this project, and in an effort to make these workshops as accessible as possible, we consulted with our partners and two accredited educators to create the Stone, Sea and Sky educational toolkit - adapted for use throughout the whole of Scotland.
🔸Download the Stone, Sea and Sky educational toolkit in English (full colour)
🔸Download the Stone, Sea and Sky educational toolkit in English (black and white; reduced number of pages; reduced ink levels - suitable for printing)
🔸Download the Stone, Sea and Sky educational toolkit in Gaelic (full colour)
🔸Download the Stone, Sea and Sky educational toolkit in Gaelic (black and white; reduced number of pages; reduced ink levels - suitable for printing)
🔸Download the Drawings pack (English)
🔸Download the Rubbings pack (English)
🔸Download the Questions pack (English)
We'd love to see how you're engaging with your local buildings, places and spaces. Share it with us by tagging us @scottishcivictrust on Facebook and @scotcivictrust on Instagram and Twitter.
Stone, Sea and Sky is a Doors Open Days 2019 Project Delivered by Scottish Civic Trust. This project is part-Financed by the Scottish Government and the European Community Argyll and the Isles and Outer Hebrides Leader 2014-2020 Programme
