KS2 Stone Age to Iron Age

Bring history to life with this exciting series of outdoor lessons, where your class will journey from the Stone Age through to the Iron Age! Pupils will step into the shoes of early humans by exploring Stone Age art, crafting jewellery, and discovering the roles of hunters and gatherers through cross-curricular activities. They’ll then move into the Bronze Age, investigating how new inventions transformed daily life, before experiencing the Iron Age by building their very own settlement with roundhouses and hill forts. These hands-on experiences make history active, memorable, and unforgettable.

Lesson Plans

Creating Stone Age cave paintings

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.

Learning objective:

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

Creating Stone Age jewellery

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

Learning objective:

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

Understanding more about hunting and gathering

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.

Learning objective:

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

How irrigation developed farming in the Bronze Age

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.

Learning objective:

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

Understanding why hillforts were used in the Iron Age

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.

Learning objective:

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

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