These are our suggested learner activities, you may have come up with a different selection depending on your teaching context.

• Explore resources giving names and meaning of landscape features in Scots; pupils bring their own landscape photograph or find suitable images online, then produce a poster using use the information about Scots place names at the Scots Language Centre and the Ordnance Survey overview of British place names that use Scots source words.

• Explore your local Ordnance Survey map for names of geographical features

• Create a fact file with names, definitions, and drawings of features

• Plan and construct an imaginary island, using your fact file as a resource, with the names of features in Scots. Add imaginary names using combinations of Scots words you have learned. Then write an accompanying tourist guide to your island in Scots.

• Pupils could undertake field work and produce a video introducing a geographical feature of the landscape in their local area and explain the origins of the related place-names.

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