Topic Planning
Year 3
From Stone Age to Iron Age
Learning Objective
Week 1
Construct informed
responses that involve
thoughtful selection and
organisation of historical
information
To understand what
humans needed for
survival in the Stone Age
To create an advert for a
stone age tool
Week 2
To devise questions, find
similarities and differences
and interpret a historical
source
To write a newspaper
report about Skara Brae
Whole Class input
(key questions)
Starter: I’m a child, get me out of here- give the children the scenario:
they have woken up without clothes, food, water or shelter etc. On
tables, decide which order you would need to complete these tasks.
Independent/group activities
(including differentiation)
Introduce what The Stone Age means- why do you think it is called this?
How long ago was this? What types of tools would they have had?
Task: children must persuade a Stone
Age man to buy a bow and arrow.
Watch example of sales pitch (either
video or teacher). What persuasive
features did they use? (adjectives,
rhetorical questions)
Go through introduction to The Stone Age (on IWB)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00dtrcn
On tables, create a sales advert for the
bow and arrow.
Introduce the task
Independent:
LA: annotate picture with adjectives
MA: use writing frame
HA: write an advert using a rhetorical
question
T model write a short newspaper
report about the discovery including
new terminology from the word bank
Starter: Can you find Orkney on your map? (Children have maps/atlases
on tables)
Introduce today’s Lesson: Skara Brea
Watch the video:
http://www.gridclub.com/scotland/history/the_ancient_world/a_stone_a
ge_village/index.html
Discuss similarities and differences between how we live and how they
lived.
Read newspaper report (on IWB)
What did the archeologists learn about the stone age people from this
site?
Create a word bank
Assessment:
Success criteria
I can explain challenges
for early man
Children present their adverts
to the class.
I can tell you why tools
were important
What persuasive features did
they use?
I can write a persuasive
advert selling a Stone
Age tool
I can tell you facts about
Skara Brea
I can use the past tense
LA- shared write with T
I can use key words
MA/HA- write a short newspaper
report about Skara Brea
Plenary &
Home Learning
If you could give the Stone
Age people one invention,
what would it be?
Week 3
Understand how our
knowledge of the past is
constructed from historical
sources
To create a cave painting
Week 4
Understand how our
knowledge of the past is
constructed from historical
sources
To create Stone Age
jewellery
Starter: Match terminology to meaning
All children
Introduce today’s lesson: Early paintings
Activity 1: create their own cave
paintings on brown paper
(chalk/charcoal)
What would they use as paint? What would they
use for brushes? What do you think they mean?
Why were they writing it down?
Go through images of different Stone Age paintings.
http://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t2-h-4704-bushmen-cave-paintingoutlines
Starter: Interactive jigsaw puzzle at:
Show pictures of pottery and jewellery- how do you think these were
made? What materials did they use? Why would they make them? What
can we learn about the people from them?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/learning/primary/skarabrae/content/peop
le/evidence5.shtml
http://timetravellerkids.co.uk/uncategorized/make-a-stone-age-necklace/
Children praise and prompt
others on their tables.
I can create a painting in
the style of a cave age
painting
Activity 2: create hand prints- spray
bottle with paint in
All children:
Create a necklace using clay
-round beads with hole pushed
through
-Longer ‘tooth’ beads
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/celts/index.shtml?1
I can read information
from a historical source
To read information from
a historical source
To create a Stone Age
necklace
Children praise and prompt
others on their tables.
Week 5
Understand how our
knowledge of the past in
constructed from historical
sources
To interpret a historical
source
Starter: Stonehenge interactive game:
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/schoolvisits/education-game/
In table groups:
Sort historical sources with the correct
people
Share answers
Introduce today’s lesson: Stonehenge
Independent answer:
LA- T shared write
To sort pieces of evidence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6oxmxPKoSE
(A bit advanced so maybe watch in silent and describe what is
happening)
Week 6
Note contrasts and trends
over a period of time
To know what a hill fort
was
To infer information from
historical sources
Go through information (on IWB)
How was it built? Why did they build it?
Why is it that shape? What evidence did they find? How did this help
them?
Starter: match terminology to pictures
Introduce today’s lesson: Hillforts
Go through pwp (link on IWB) What is the iron age? Why is it called
that? Why would they build their houses on a hill? What else would be
inside the hillfort?
Look at the 4 suggestions:
-Farming
-Religion
-Protection
-Food
Starter: Sort timeline of events
Introduce today’s lesson: Iron Age artefacts treasure hunt
To use historical sources
How do we know so much about the stone age? Did they write it down?
Did they take photos? Why not?
Week 7
Look at examples of sources- what do you think they are?
What do they tell us?
3D objects:
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/schools/classroomhomework-resources/3d-objects/
I can infer information
Stonehenge quiz (at the end
of the powerpoint)
I can use ‘because’ to
give evidence why I
think that
MA/HA- independently write which
purpose they believe Stonehenge had
and justify their answer using the
evidence
Task 1:
LA/MA- draw a picture and write
simple sentences using the word mat
HA- Draw a plan of a hillfort and label
Then write sentences explaining.
I know why a hillfort was
important
I can write sentences
explaining parts of a
hillfort
Bingo- draw a 4 grid on the
boards and chn choose key
words from the board. When
T reads definition they cross it
off.
Task 2: chn create a roundhouse and
put together to make a class hill fort
All children:
On their worksheet are pictures of
Stone age and Iron age artefacts. First
discuss on tables what they think they
are.
Then chn move around the room
finding the answers.
I know what a primary
source is
Go through Learning Journey
Can you remember a key fact?
I can think about what
an artefact tells me
about the Stone age or
Iron age