Invention of iron

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

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.

Science

  • Ask relevant questions and use different types of scientific enquiries to answer them
  • Report on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions.
  • Demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes.
  • Explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda.
  • Identify differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes.

D&T

  • Use research and develop design criteria to inform design.
  • Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas.
  • Select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks.
  • Select from and use a wider range of materials and components.

Lesson Planning

Devise a way to twist, fold and flatten dough to make sword or spearhead shapes with pattern welds, like Iron Age weapons. Make replica weapons with silver foil.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To find out when iron was invented and how it was made.
  • To plan and undertake a science experiment replicating the iron-smithing process.
  • To design and make Iron Age replicas using card.

Children will:

  • Learn how people made iron in prehistory.
  • Replicate the iron-smithing process using pastry.
  • Design and make replica iron age objects with silver card.

You Will Need

  • Pastry
  • Lasagne sheets
  • Cheese
  • Chocolate
  • Microwave or cooker
  • Silver card