New Learn website opens up heritage learning
http://www.nts.org.uk/Learn/
http://www.nts.org.uk/Learn/schools_home.php

It is now even easier for Scottish schools to explore Scotland’s built and natural heritage thanks to the National Trust for Scotland’s revamped Learn website. Each year, the conservation charity hosts thousands of school visits at its sites across Scotland, encouraging young people to learn about the countryside and bringing history to life. Now, the schools’ web pages have been extensively re-designed to make them even more useful for teachers and pupils.

The Learn website provides detailed information that will help teachers plan their visits to the Trust’s stunning places. There are Factsheets for organising school trips to heritage and countryside sites, and Teachers’ Information Sheets for each individual place. In addition, free Teaching Resources are available on the Learn website. These are designed to help schools with classroom work, and cover key study areas such as Bannockburn, Mary Queen of Scots and the Victorians. New resource packs for whiteboards are being designed for 2012.