Taking KS2 - Stone Age to Iron Age Outdoors

Creating Stone Age cave paintings

LO: To identify what cave paintings can tell us about life in the Stone Age.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

To understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources and that different versions of past events may exist, giving some reasons for this.

The main activity of the outdoor lesson allows your children to begin to understand how life was different in the Stone Age through exploration of their art.

Creating Stone Age jewellery

LO: To understand why and how people in the Stone Age made jewellery.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources and that different versions of past events may exist, giving some reasons for this.
To note connections, contrasts and trends over time.

Deepen your children’s understanding of life in the Stone Age in this outdoor lesson by investigating and creating jewellery from the time period.

Understanding more about hunting and gathering

LO: To understand the importance of hunting and gathering for survival in the Stone Age.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

To regularly address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.
To understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.

During this outdoor lesson, children learn about hunters and gatherers and use cross-curricular maths and art to find out more about life in the Stone Age.

How irrigation developed farming in the Bronze Age

LO: To understand how irrigation helped to develop farming in the Bronze Age.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

To continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of
British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods of study.

Children begin to explore the Bronze Age through hands-on outdoor learning and investigate how inventions in this time period changed how it would have been to live then.

Understanding why hillforts were used in the Iron Age

LO: To understand how and why hillforts were developed in the Iron Age.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

To continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study.
To note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

During this outdoor lesson, your children will find out about the features of hillforts and roundhouses and experience what life was like in the Iron Age, constructing their own settlement.

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KS2 - Stone Age to Iron Age

Creating Stone Age cave paintings

LO: To identify what cave paintings can tell us about life in the Stone Age.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

Creating Stone Age jewellery

LO: To understand why and how people in the Stone Age made jewellery.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

Understanding more about hunting and gathering

LO: To understand the importance of hunting and gathering for survival in the Stone Age.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

How irrigation developed farming in the Bronze Age

LO: To understand how irrigation helped to develop farming in the Bronze Age.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

Understanding why hillforts were used in the Iron Age

LO: To understand how and why hillforts were developed in the Iron Age.

National Curriculum Objectives covered:

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