Buildings

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Invaders and Settlers: Anglo-Saxons Settlements

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Objectives

History

Understand how people’s lives have shaped Britain.
Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, and cause and consequence.
Gain historical perspective by understanding the connections between local and national history, and between short- and long-term timescales.
Understand how Britain has been influenced by the wider world.

Design and Technology

Generate, develop and communicate their ideas through talking and drawing.
Select from and use a wide range of materials, according to their characteristics.
Evaluate their products against design criteria.

Lesson Planning

Design and make an Anglo-Saxon building based on research into the materials and techniques they used.

Teaching Outcomes:

To describe the materials and construction of Anglo-Saxon buildings.
To design, construct and evaluate a model of an Anglo-Saxon building.

Children will:

Describe the materials and techniques used by Anglo-Saxons for their buildings.
Design and make a model of an Anglo-Saxon building.

Planning

Provided Resources

Anglo-Saxon building information
Saxon churches examples

You Will Need

Wood in the form of, e.g. dowelling, lolly sticks, match sticks, pieces of flat balsa wood
Corrugated card
Thin card
Glue guns
Straw/reed-coloured wool or yarn or grass stalks/straw or Art Straws
Clay to use as ‘daub’
Pliable twigs to use as ‘wattle’
Thick card or pieces of wood to use as base for each group’s building
Tools including hacksaw, scissors, ruler

Weblinks

Anglo-Saxon houses from weststow.org
Click on the videos tab on the right hand side of page from bbc.co.uk
West Stow buildings & techniques used from stedmundsburychronicle.com
Some descriptions of building techniques & tools used from lore-and-saga.co.uk
Gallery of Anglo-Saxon buildings from gallery.nen.gov.uk