Environment
These illustrations and photographs are free for any kind of educational use - whether you are a teacher creating topic worksheets or looking for ideas to spark creative writing, or a pupil who needs illustrations for a presentation or website.
Just select the collection you are interested in and have a look at the thumbnail images.
Most of the illustrations are available in both full-colour versions and in black and white.
Copyright
You can use these images for educational purposes without worrying about cost or copyright. All we ask is that you don't sell them and you credit LTS when you use them. For full details, please see the copyright statement.
Natural habitats
Colourful and detailed illustrations of different natural habitats from around the world, complete with the typical plants and animals found there.
Climate Change
A gallery of photos on the Climate Change website relating to the world, the environment and the action that human beings can take to combat the effect of climate change.
Seasons
Landscape pictures of a farmhouse and the countryside in different seasons, with lambs and daffodils in spring, a hot sunny day for summer, falling leaves and brambles in autumn and a robin in the snow for winter.
Flowers and trees
Colour illustrations of flowers, seeds, nuts and leaves from common British plants and trees.
Harvest festival
Use these images to help children celebrate the ancient tradition of the harvest festival - drawings of baskets of food and sheaves of corn are available in colour and in black and white.
Paintings of the natural environment
See Scotland through artists' eyes in these 49 paintings of the great outdoors from the Royal Scottish Academy. You can print off reproductions of the paintings and each one has information about the artist and the picture.
Weather and seasons
Colour photos from continental Europe of the weather and different seasonal events, collected by the Modern Foreign Languages Environment (MFLE).
Paintings of the built environment
From Scotland and abroad, these paintings include lots of scenes still recognisable today. Selected from the Royal Scottish Academy, a copy of each painting can be downloaded and there are more details about each one.
Old maps
See how Scotland's towns and cities have changed with these online maps of 19th-century Glasgow, Edinburgh and Wick. You can zoom in and out and there is further explanation from a National Library of Scotland curator.
Sightseeing photos
Photos of landmarks and sights in Europe, including pictures from Paris, Rome and Berlin, are available on the MFLE.
Shops, hotels and restaurants
Colour photos of foreign shops, restaurants and hotels - from a French tabac to a Hungarian hotel -supplied by the MFLE.
Copyright
These images are the copyright of Learning and Teaching Scotland and are provided as a royalty-free educational resource for educational use in Scotland. By downloading an image you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of this licence.
You may copy, distribute and display an image, and make derivative works based on the image. Learning and Teaching Scotland must be credited as the source of the original image. You may not sell or permit third parties to sell or license an image. If you alter, transform, or build upon an image, you may distribute the resulting image only under a licence identical to this one. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the licence terms of this work.
Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from Learning and Teaching Scotland.