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Gabon across the curriculum

Getting started

As you travel round Gabon, you and your pupils can explore a range of topics that helps to develop vocabulary in the areas of animals, colours, family and time.

Expressive arts

Exploring Gabonese culture through drumming, dancing and mask-making.

Religious and moral education

Explore a creation myth explaining how the original tribespeople of Gabon thought the world began.

Sciences and technologies

Learners can construct their own musical instrument and investigate how sound is produced and travels.

Mathematics and numeracy

Use gorilla population statistics to enable learners to experiment with percentages - in English and French.

Social studies

Examine and explore a Gabonese mask from the collection at the National Museum of Scotland.