Tourism & leisure

Tourism is important to the development of Clyde Waterfront. The waterfront is a place people will want to visit from near and far. New attractions like the Riverside Museum will add to existing venues such as the Glasgow Science Centre. Xscape already provides a huge range of leisure facilities in one complex at Renfrew Riverside. New eating places and hotels are planned to accommodate the growing number of visitors. Riverfront walkways are being created and improved to make the waterfront a more attractive place to walk and cycle.

With Glasgow growing in popularity as an international tourist destination, this theme includes marketing Glasgow as a tourist destination and developing translation skills in order to communicate successfully in different settings.

Lesson/project ideas (search all lesson/project ideas)

Title	Short description	Related curricular areas	Age group
Visiting Glasgow as a tourist	Pupils will research and design public transport information leaflets and charts for tourists visiting the city of Glasgow using skills learned in maths.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary
ICT advertising leaflet	Using ICT – Microsoft Publisher and applying research skills to create an advertising leaflet using an enterprising approach.	Health and Wellbeing, Languages, Mathematics, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Craft design on a tourism theme	Applying learning about plastics to design and make a plastic artefact based on a tourism theme.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Mathematics, Science, Technologies	Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary
Tourism on the River Clyde - 19thc. to today	Applying knowledge of tourism and leisure on the Clyde since 19th century to present day through project based learning involving model making and marketing campaigns.	Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Development of Glasgow – tourism leaflet	Project in travel and tourism to design a tourism information leaflet.	Languages, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Creating a tourist leaflet for Glasgow	Pupils will use their language, presentation, art, ICT and social skills to create a tourist leaflet in a foreign language.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Mathematics, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Translating menus for restaurants	Pupils use their language skills to translate authentic menus into a foreign language and work with local businesses.	Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages, Mathematics, Religious and Moral Education, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Guided visit of Glasgow	The pupils welcome foreign visitors and provide a guided visit of Glasgow in the foreign language	Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages, Mathematics, Religious and Moral Education, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary
Translation for business	Pupils use their language skills and previous knowledge from the tourism project to translate relevant documentation for hotels.	Languages, Mathematics, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary
Creation of a mini phrase book	Using all their knowledge and language structures gained in the tourism section, the pupils will create a phrase book for foreign visitors.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Mathematics, Technologies	Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary
Glasgow tourism marketing challenge	Pupils work in groups to design and present a campaign to attract visitors and tourists to Glasgow with a focus on the Clyde waterfront.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary
Marketing tourism advert	Apply knowledge and understanding gained in school to market the attractions around the Clyde in a project to create an advertisement using video equipment.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Technologies	Upper Primary
Leisure fact file	Produce a fact file on local area leisure facilities for use by other pupils and their families using an enterprising approach in the project.	Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages, Technologies	Upper Primary