Ice Age art and music

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

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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.
Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British and world history.

Art

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

Music

Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression.
Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music.
Develop an understanding of the history of music.

Lesson Planning

Research Palaeolithic art and paint and sculpt as Ice Age artists would have. Make and play a Stone Age flute.

Teaching Outcomes:

To find out about Ice Age art.
To make Ice Age art.
To make a working flute from paper.

Children will:

Discuss the meaning of Ice Age cave art.
Make art inspired by Ice Age art.
Make and play a flute.

Planning

Provided Resources

Making paint
Painting Ice Age animals
Making portable art
Ice Age portable art
Cave art presentation
Making a paper flute

You Will Need

Air-drying clay or FiMo
Charcoal, Chalk, Pastels
Pears soap
Feathers
Sticks, Stones, Animal bones
Stanley knife for teacher

Weblinks

Rock art from around the world from bradshawfoundation.com
Details about a flute from Hohle Fels and audio of a replica flute from npr.org
How to make a bullroarer from tinytappingtoes.com