Sun and water

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

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

Art

  • Improve mastery of art and design technique.
  • 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

Find out how religion changed over the course of the Bronze Age, from sun to water worship, and how we know. Make replica decoration or tools and re-enact a possible scene from the Bronze Age.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To find out about how beliefs changed in the Bronze Age.
  • To make Bronze Age jewellery.
  • Take part in a role-play of a Bronze Age religious ceremony.

Children will:

  • Have opinions, based on evidence, about Bronze Age religious belief.
  • Make art objects inspired by Bronze Age objects.
  • Take part in a role-play about Bronze Age religious beliefs.

You Will Need

  • Pears soap
  • Gold metallic card
  • Gold foil
  • Archer, Journey to Stonehenge by Jane Brayne