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Games and Resources

The Living Field CD

Image of The Living Field interactive educational resourceThe Living Field interactive educational resource has more than 300 pages of high quality images, sounds, games, and activity sheets designed to enhance and enrich pupils’ knowledge and interest. You can download the complete CD here.

Play the Living Field online here.

Pipe Dreams

Screen shot of Pipe Dreams gamePipe Dreams is an interactive game involving an imaginary catchment, somewhere in North East Scotland. Players must choose what each area of land in the catchment should be used for: crops, livestock, forestry or natural vegetation.

Play Pipe Dreams online here.

You choose the news

Image of the You Choose the News gameYou choose the news is an interactive game that allows players to create a TV news item about changing EU chemical pesticide rules and the potential effects and solutions. By selecting from a series of short video clips players can produce their own news item and when completed the game will tell players just how biased, or not, their news clip is.

Play You choose the news here.

Soils of the Crofts

Image of The Soils of the Croft educational resourceSoils of the Crofts is a valuable resource for teachers and pupils in Crofting Connections schools which will help them deepen their knowledge of the soil through practical tasks like making wormeries and compost heaps or recreating lazy-beds, as well as through science experiments, creative activities and social studies. But most of all, it is an invitation to get to know and treasure the soils beneath their feet.

Explore the Soils of the Crofts.


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