Social studies

Learners can use the Polynesian feast bowl which travelled from the South Pacific to Scotland in 1892, as a context for the challenges.

With a focus on social studies, learners can explore the feast bowl as a stimulus to develop their understanding of the French language, spoken in Polynesia.

Learners can express their curiosity about the feast bowl and its journey, by considering what they see, thinking about how the bowl was made and wondering how it was transported from Polynesia to Anstruther in Fife.

Learners could then examine the different types of food the feast bowl might have been used as a container for. Contrasts could also be drawn between the Polynesian diet of the 1800s with the Scottish diet of that time.

These learning experiences offer opportunities for links technologies challenges and health and wellbeing.

Download the social studies overview document for

• links to experiences and outcomes
• more ideas for learning experiences
• suggested evidence for assessment