{"id":835,"date":"2018-11-27T21:27:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T21:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learn-resources\/?p=835"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T10:46:37","slug":"scottish-identity-who-decides-who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/2018\/11\/27\/scottish-identity-who-decides-who-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish identity: who decides who we are?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This resource provides a range of activities, questions and images to help groups of all ages explore Scottish identity<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>About this resource<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgalleries.org\/art-and-artists\/features\/scottish-identity-who-decides-who-we-are\">This resource<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgalleries.org\/art-and-artists\/features\/f\u00e8in-aithne-albannach-c\u00f2-aige-tha-co-dh\u00f9nadh-air-c\u00f2-th\u2019-annainn\">Gaelic version here<\/a>) invites teachers to use images from the National Galleries of Scotland collection, such as <i>Monarch of the Glen<\/i>, as\u00a0tools to encourage Creativity Skills and interdisciplinary learning. It is designed to meet the needs of the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence.<\/p>\n<p><b>Age range<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We have purposely created exercises that are not aimed at a particular level as we believe in teachers\u2019 professional judgement; you can adapt activities to suit any group, through all stages of primary, secondary and adult learning.<\/p>\n<p><b>Themes<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This resource includes 5 themes: Our environment; Health &amp; wellbeing; Constructed reality; Making an icon; Social studies. We hope\u00a0that one or more theme will be of interest to your learners.<\/p>\n<p>Funder: Heritage Lottery Fund<\/p>\n<p>Image credit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgalleries.org\/search\/artist\/sir-edwin-landseer\">Sir Edwin Landseer<\/a>,\u00a0The Monarch of the Glen,\u00a01851.\u00a0Purchased by the National Galleries of Scotland as a part gift from Diageo Scotland Ltd, with contributions from the Heritage Lottery Fund,\u00a0Dunard\u00a0Fund, the Art Fund, the William Jacob Bequest, the Tam O\u2019\u00a0Shanter\u00a0Trust, the\u00a0Turtleton\u00a0Trust, and the K. T.\u00a0Wiedemann\u00a0Foundation, Inc. and through public appeal 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgalleries.org\/art-and-artists\/features\/scottish-identity?_gl=1*spr9r2*_up*MQ..*_ga*MzIzMTczMDY4LjE3NDQxOTUzODc.*_ga_T2ZDV2PFDY*MTc0NDE5NTM4Ni4xLjEuMTc0NDE5NTUxNy4wLjAuMA..\">Scottish identity | National Galleries of Scotland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Posted by:\u00a0National Galleries Scotland in collaboration with Hidden Giants<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-837\" src=\"http:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learn-resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/11\/ngs_black-Small-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"(c) National Galleries Scotland\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ngs_black-Small-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ngs_black-Small.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This resource provides a range of activities, questions and images to help groups of all ages explore Scottish identity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,143,146,148,154,158,159,160,162,166,172,109,115,185,191,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activity","category-cfe-expressive-arts","category-cfe-health-and-wellbeing","category-cfe-literacy","category-cfe-social-studies","category-cfe-second-level","category-senior-phase","category-cfe-third-and-fourth-levels","category-creativity-skills","category-gaelic","category-interdisciplinary-learning","category-period-industrial-victorian","category-period-modern","category-primary","category-secondary","category-users-educators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2999,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/2999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}