Popular searches in the last week:

2026, 2027, 2025, plants, english, time, poetry, history, forces, vikings

Focus on Star Carr

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Stone Age to Iron Age Britain From hunter-gatherers to farmers

Download all files

Objectives

History

  • Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age – Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.
  • Address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.

Design and Technology

  • Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams, and prototypes.

English

  • Participate in role play.

Lesson Planning

Focus on the Mesolithic settlement Star Carr; design a model and role-play a day in the life of the Star Carr people.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To generate questions and hypotheses about what life was like at Star Carr and carry out research to find this out.
  • To design a model of Star Carr.
  • To role-play a day in the life of Star Carr.

Children will:

  • Generate questions about Star Carr.
  • Find out some answers to their research questions about Star Carr.
  • Apply their research through role-play.
  • Develop a design plan for how to make a model Mesolithic house.

You Will Need

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

Log in or sign up to get access to this resource

School Subscription

Reduce teacher workload

From £200 (+ VAT) per year. Access to all key stages for multiple users.

Sign up

Individual Subscription

For inspirational teaching

Just £60 (£50 + VAT) per year to get access to all resources.

Sign up

Early Career Teacher

Develop your teaching

Just £42 (£35 + VAT) to get access to all resources for 2 years.

Sign up

Taster Account

100s of resources

Register to access all free resources.

Sign up

Already subscribed?

Log in to get access.