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What kinds of evidence are there for prehistory?

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

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Objectives

History

  • Understand how our knowledge of the prehistoric past is constructed from a range of sources, and evaluate the reliability of each of these sources.

English

  • Take part in debates and consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others.

Lesson Planning

Children learn about the difficulties in investigating prehistory and work together to evaluate sources.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To prepare for a debate about the reliability of each source of evidence.
  • To have a debate about the reliability of each source of evidence.

Children will:

  • Explain the different sources of evidence about prehistory.
  • Evaluate the reliability of different sources of evidence about prehistory.
  • Understand how a debate works and take part in one.

Provided Resources

  • Battle of the archaeologists
  • How to run a debate

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