Make your own timeline

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Stone Age to Iron Age Britain Introduction to Stone Age to Iron Age

Objectives

History

  • Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British history and develop the appropriate use of historical terms.

English

  • Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction.

Lesson Planning

Children learn about and create their own timelines covering ancient history and learn about the timescales involved.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To create timelines to put up in the classroom covering prehistoric periods.
  • To research dates to go on the timeline from books and the internet.

Children will:

  • Use chronological vocabulary.
  • Put the events of prehistory into the correct order and understand the scale of prehistoric time.
  • Locate information from non-fiction sources.

Provided Resources

  • Modelling a timeline (differentiated)
  • Dates for timeline
  • Archaeological dating conventions

You Will Need

  • String
  • Measuring tapes