Welcome to S2 Social Subjects
You have all successfully
completed the Castle Challenge
so……
What’s Next ?
How do we go about finding out
more about our town…………
What are We Learning?
• To develop your research skills to find
out more about Dunbar –past, present
and its geography.
• To use your findings to produce an item
this could be displayed in the Dunbar
Tourist Office to promote Dunbar as a
tourist destination.
Why Are We Learning This ?
• We will have a greater knowledge and
understanding of our local area and its
heritage.
• We will further develop our skills of
research, and will be more confident
having tackled this piece of research.
• We will successfully produce an item
which shows our learning.
• We will be able make suggestions to
improve Dunbar for the future.
How well do you
know
DUNBAR?
In pairs, try and
answer the
following
questions.
Guess if unsure!
1. How many
People live in
Dunbar?
2. When you
google Dunbar
what image
appears first?
3. How much is
a Fish Supper
in Dunbar’s
Fish & Chip
Shop?
4. How many
Castles are
there in East
Lothian?
5. How many Golf
Courses are there
in East Lothian?
6. What is Trip
Advisors Top
Dunbar Tourist
Attraction?
7. What type of
Bird is on the
East Lothian
Council sign?
And finally..
8. Who is the
longest serving
member of
staff in Dunbar
Grammar?
ANSWERS
• You will find out the answers next time!
• DID YOU MOSTLY GUESS?
• In order to know the actual answers,
you need to be able to research ..
Research
• Doing a piece of research is like being
a police detective. You have to look for
EVIDENCE!
•
• We are going to look for evidence about
Dunbar……but Dunbar could be a
HUGE topic to research!!!
• So, where do we start?
Dunbar – Our Town.
Then a book has different chapters.
Each chapter deals with lots of different things ….
We need to have some chapters about Dunbar !
Our chapters could be on the topics of:
Sport in Dunbar
Agriculture in Dunbar
Dunbar in the 1960s
Employment in Dunbar
The coast
Tourism in Dunbar
Any other ideas…..? East Lothian in the War
Jotter Work
Copy and complete:
If I was going to research Dunbar –
Our Town, and I would choose the
topic of …………………………
Now you have your topics..
• Create your own set of questions you
want to know about your topic..
• Ie – If you chose East Lothian during the
war
• What was life like in East Lothian during
the War?