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Origins of agriculture

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

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Objectives

History

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

Design and Technology

  • Understand how key events and individuals in design and technology have helped shape the world.

English

  • Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas.

Lesson Planning

Learn about the origins of agriculture and its spread to Britain.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To research the changes that agriculture caused in the way people lived.
  • To know key differences between the technology and materials of farmers and hunter-gatherers.
  • To speculate about which was the harder way of life, hunting and gathering or farming.

Children will:

  • Generate questions to frame historical research.
  • Undertake historical research.
  • Use their research to back up an opinion on the comparison between two periods .

You Will Need

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