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Neolithic religion and Stonehenge

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.

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

Learn about how Stonehenge developed over 1500 years and how and why it was built. Find out whether there are any other monuments like Stonehenge from the Neolithic. Devise and make a replica Stonehenge from biscuits.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To find out about Stonehenge and the background of Neolithic religion.
  • To find out about Stonehenge and the background of Neolithic religion.

Children will:

  • Put dates of the Stonehenge landscape in chronological order.
  • Make a reconstruction of Stonehenge using biscuits or cheese puffs.
  • Use their knowledge to discuss the purpose of Stonehenge.

You Will Need

  • Cheese puffs
  • Range of rectangular biscuits
  • Air-drying clay
  • Lego™ figures
  • Torches.

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