Roundhouses

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

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).

Design and Technlogy

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

Research Iron Age roundhouses in order to design and make model roundhouses. Learn about and how to do wattling.

Teaching Outcomes:

To learn about Bronze and Iron Age roundhouses.
To make a model Iron Age roundhouse.

Children will:

Learn how roundhouses were made.
Do some wattling, one of the basic techniques of house building in prehistory.
Use their knowledge to design and build a model roundhouse.

Planning

Provided Resources

Reconstructed Iron Age houses
How to make a model roundhouse
Wattling guidelines

You Will Need

Polystyrene blocks
Sticks
Willow wreath
Clay
Straw
Willow or hazel rods

Weblinks

Some reconstructed prehistoric houses to visit from schoolsprehistory.co.uk
Animation showing how a roundhouse is constructed from bbc.co.uk