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Hunter-gatherer beliefs

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Stone Age to Iron Age Britain Religion and Ritual

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Objectives

History

  • Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British history.
  • Address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.
  • Understand how our knowledge of the (prehistoric) past is constructed from a range of sources (including archaeological excavation, and the reliability of such sources).

Art

  • Improve mastery of art and design techniques.
  • Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences.

English

  • Become more familiar with and confident in using language in a greater variety of situations, for a variety of audiences and purposes, including through drama, formal presentations and debate.

Lesson Planning

Explore the evidence that suggest some people in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic probably pretended or believed that they could turn into animals and back again. Make props and improvise a scene.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To find out about the religious beliefs of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.
  • To make wearable art.
  • To improvise a hunter-gatherer religious ceremony.

Children will:

  • Interpret evidence of hunter-gatherer beliefs.
  • Make wearable art inspired by prehistoric images.
  • Take part in an improvised scene of a hunter-gatherer ceremony.

You Will Need

  • Card
  • Scraps of cloth
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • String

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