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Timeline of tools and technology

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Stone Age to Iron Age Britain Technology and Tools

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Objectives

History

  • Establish clear narratives across the periods they study.
  • Construct informed responses that involve thoughtful selection and organisation of relevant historical information.

Science

  • Talk about how scientific ideas have developed over time.

Lesson Planning

Finish your timeline of tools and technology and have a prehistoric technology feast.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To put the timeline of tools and technology together; To have a prehistoric technology feast.
  • To discuss and then film a five-minute blast about the changes in technology over time.

Children will:

  • Confirm the methods they used that caused reversible or irreversible change.
  • Give an explanation why bronze and iron technology replaced the use of stone for cutting tools.
  • Speculate how the development of metalworking effected future technological changes.

You Will Need

  • Video camera

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