Here are some ideas from our project schools - we'd love to add to them . . . Please let us know what you are doing.
Fantasy literature texts
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (used by Tessa at Campie PS - see Tessa's World Builder blog from the 2008 project, where she and the children recorded all their activities)
Edge Chronicles (Beyond the Deep Woods) by Chris Riddell & Paul Stewart (being used by Annie with S1 at St Augustine's)
The Dark Side (being used by Annie with S2 at St Augustine's)
The Stone Men by Murray Herbert (being used by Ryan at St Aloysius; set on Ardamurchan, west coast of Scotland; rave reviews from young people on Amazon as well as Ryan's class!)
The 'Eragon'series (also a film) by Christopher Paolini (used in 2007 by our project primary school in Dundee)
Other ideas for fantasy texts: The 'books' section in the teens & young people pages of the Scottish Book Trustweb site has a great search facility for texts, many of them from Scotland. I searched on 'fantasy' for 9-12 year-olds and the following link should show the 58 suggested texts - there are some real goodies here, and many will offer you fresh blood in the genre: Scottish Book Trust book fantasy literature search facility.
Useful web sites
This Tolkien site has a lot of teaching resources for primary and secondary. Unfortunately the Scottish part of the site isn't working, but there's still plenty of useful stuff: Tolkien Society teaching materials
Music has featured as a cross-curricular link in some projects. The Tolkien Society site has some ideas: http://www.tolkiensociety.org/ed/music.html and http://www.tolkiensociety.org/ed/ks1_2_music.html
Google earth allows children to view maps and terrain - Ryan and Tony used this to good effect in their project at St Aloysius, in conjunction with the Stine men which is set in Ardnamurchan. Visit Google Earth to find out what you can do with the software.
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