Introduction to hill forts

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

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Objectives

History

Know and understand the history of the British Isles as a coherent, chronological narrative.
Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends.

Geography

Name and locate counties and cities of the UK, geographical regions and their key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land-use patterns, and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time.

Lesson Planning

Learn about the background of hill forts. Use maps to identify some well-known and local hill forts.

Teaching Outcomes:

To introduce the historical background of hill forts, explore the range of different types of hill forts and their distribution.
To explore where hill forts are built and why they were built in those locations.

Children will:

Understand the differential distribution of hill forts across the country.
Identify features on a map using a key.
Transfer features from one map to another of a different scale.

Planning

Provided Resources

Large scale map of Britain

Planning

You Will Need

Buy one or more copies of the Ordnance Survey's map of Ancient Britain
Print out or photocopy a map of Britain from the internet or an atlas on A4 for each group

Weblinks

Ordnance Survey's Map of Ancient Britain from ordnancesurvey.co.uk
Timeline of Iron Age Britain from bbc.co.uk
For photographic image of hill forts from geograph.org.uk
Build a simple hill fort from bbc.co.uk