Stone Age Britain: what do archaeologists think they know about it?
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of basic timelines, early explorers, and seafarers from key stage 1. It prepares pupils for later units that expand their understanding of archaeology, its purposes, and the way it interacts with other areas of historical study. It also prepares pupils for Year 3 units about Ancient Egypt, the Indus Valley, Sumer, and the Shang dynasty in China, which all feature similar stories of migration, settlement, domestication, and the various functions of ancient artwork.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils should already be able to talk about events in the past and use some appropriate vocabulary to talk about the past.
- Pupils should be able to interpret a simple timeline of events in chronological order.
- Pupils should be able to identify similarities and differences between ways of life at different times.
- Pupils should understand that archaeologists and historians can interrogate artefacts to create accounts an representations of the past.
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of basic timelines, early explorers, and seafarers from key stage 1. It prepares pupils for later units that expand their understanding of archaeology, its purposes, and the way it interacts with other areas of historical study. It also prepares pupils for Year 3 units about Ancient Egypt, the Indus Valley, Sumer, and the Shang dynasty in China, which all feature similar stories of migration, settlement, domestication, and the various functions of ancient artwork.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils should already be able to talk about events in the past and use some appropriate vocabulary to talk about the past.
- Pupils should be able to interpret a simple timeline of events in chronological order.
- Pupils should be able to identify similarities and differences between ways of life at different times.
- Pupils should understand that archaeologists and historians can interrogate artefacts to create accounts an representations of the past.
Stone Age Britain: what do archaeologists think they know about it?
This unit examines the archaeological record that exists for Stone Age Britain and introduces pupils to the way in which archaeologists make claims based on this evidence. As the first unit in KS2, it covers the settlement of humans in Britain during the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic eras.
6 lessons in unit
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