Welcome

What you can do here

Each of the 12 topics begins with a brief introduction outlining the key points and themes. Students can then explore each topic by examining photographs and other images, reading the accompanying text and then completing the worksheets provided.

How to get started

These resources have been designed in such a way as to enable students to work individually online by downloading the worksheets and working through them or by a whole class using printed worksheets and viewing the resources through a projector connected to the internet.

Explore subjects Celts, Picts and Norse Clearances Crofting Energy Famous Highland Personalities Farming Fishing Highland Crafts Religion St Kilda Tourism Travelling People

TEACHER MATERIALS

There is a range of materials available for teachers to use in the classroom specifically for this subject area. They are available in the teacher materials section and can be downloaded and printed off for students to use in conjunction with the website.

Teacher materials

FEATURED SUBJECTS

• CROFTING

  

  Traditional blackhouses have been replaced and small farm machinery is widely used on today's crofts but what was it like in days gone by?

  Explore Crofting

• CLEARANCES

  

  Few incidents in history have so affected Highland life and culture as the Highland Clearances yet argument still rages as to their rights and wrongs.

  Explore Clearances

• ENERGY

  

  Today the Highlands & Islands are one of the richest energy provinces in Europe but it hasn't always been that way.

  Explore Energy

• ST KILDA

  

  Up until the 1930s St Kilda was home to a community that had had to adapt to the most extreme wildness and remoteness imaginable.

  Explore St Kilda