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Focus on Skara Brae

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Stone Age to Iron Age Britain From hunter-gatherers to farmers

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Objectives

History

  • Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age – Neolithic settlement at Skara Brae.
  • Address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.

Design and Technology

  • Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams, prototypes.

English

  • Participate in role-play.

Lesson Planning

Research the Neolithic settlement of Skara Brae; design a model and role-play a day in the life of the people.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To create questions and hypotheses about Skara Brae and research the answers.
  • To design a model of Skara Brae.
  • To role-play a day in the life of Skara Brae.

Children will:

  • Generate questions about Skara Brae.
  • Do some research to answer some of those questions.
  • Apply their research through role-play.
  • Develop a design plan for how to make a model Neolithic house.

Provided Resources

  • Blank Bloom's taxonomy pyramid (question pyramid)
  • Diagram of Skara Brae

You Will Need

  • Laptops with internet access

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