Introduction to technology, tools and inventions

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Stone Age to Iron Age Britain Technology, Tools and Inventions

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Objectives

History

Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study.
Address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.

English

Give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives.
Retrieve and record information from non-fiction.
Draft and write non-narrative material using simple organisational devices.

Lesson Planning

Sort through objects to work out which of them was invented in prehistory. Find out when and where in prehistory certain inventions were made and add them to a timeline.

Teaching Outcomes:

To find out what was invented in prehistory and when.
To write object labels.

Children will:

Use inference to make educated guesses about what inventions were made in prehistory.
Find out the answers to historical questions by looking at sources.
Place dates in the right place chronologically on a timeline.

Planning

Provided Resources

Source pack on prehistoric inventions
Invention cards to complete and add to timeline and map
Object labels

You Will Need

Timeline
Map of the world
Stickers
A selection of the following: candle, wheel, pot, bronze object, iron object, woollen garment, linen garment, shoe, gold object, brooch, radio, photograph, phone, paperclip, glasses, drinking glass, electric plug, soap, Lego™, comb, book, bucket, plastic object, pen, paper.

Weblinks

Information about Britain's earliest examples of various things from schoolsprehistory.co.uk