Have you discovered the teachers’ area on Whose Town? Within the ‘Resource Bank’ feature there is a section called ‘Teaching ideas’. Here you’ll find lots of materials to help you get the most out of the Whose Town? resource.

These teaching materials were written by teachers and educational specialists and all documents are linked to the Curriculum for Excellence. There’s suggested lesson plans for interdisciplinary learning as well as a really useful ‘Suggested Topics’ document which gives you ideas about how to explore the themes raised by the archival material found within each Life in a Box in Whose Town?

There’s also some really handy guides on how to approach photographs, audio and multi-modal documents within the classroom with great suggestions for how to stimulate discussions and lead on to project work.

Or with International Literacy Day looming, why not follow our guidelines for creating your own Life in a Box and get your class to tell their own stories through images, objects and documents.