Introduction to homes and everyday life

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Stone Age to Iron Age Britain Homes and Everyday Life

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Objectives

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).

Design and Technology

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

Find materials for a replica home in the class/on the field and reconstruct it. Discover what evidence archaeologists use to reconstruct buildings or settlements.

Teaching Outcomes:

To understand how we know about prehistoric homes.
To finish off a reconstructed prehistoric style house.

Children will:

Use materials available to prehistoric people to build a shelter.
Demonstrate understanding of the principles of archaeological survival.
Learn how we know about prehistoric houses from archaeological excavation.

Planning

Provided Resources

Rot or Not game
Archaeological plans of historic houses at Bearwood School
Roundhouse at Must farm

You Will Need

Clay
Straw bales
2 hazel or willow hurdles
Sheepskins or rugs
Stones
Replica prehistoric objects made of wood, stone, bone, leather, metal.

Weblinks

Instructions on how to build a prehistoric style house from blogspot.co.uk
Reconstructing Neolithic houses from wordpress.com
Reconstructing an Iron Age roundhouse in a school from schoolsprehistory.co.uk
Some reconstructed prehistoric houses to visit from schoolsprehistory.co.uk