Iron Age feast

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Stone Age to Iron Age Britain Food

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Objectives

History

Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British history establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study.
Address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.

Design and Technology

Understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet.
Prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques.
Understand seasonality, and know where and how a variety of ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed.

Lesson Planning

Learn about Iron Age feasting and create lots of food for a feast based on knowledge of prehistoric food.

Teaching Outcomes:

To find out about Iron Age feasting.
To make food for a feast.

Children will:

Identify the name of Iron Age vegetables.
Make a recipe they have made before and improve on it.
Take part in a re-creation of an Iron Age feast.

Planning

Provided Resources

Root vegetable identification cards
Hunting
Recipe for Bog Body Pottage
Feasting

You Will Need

Flour
Broad beans
Honey
Cream, Butter, Lard
Root vegetables
Meat (optional)
Olives

Weblinks

Evidence for Iron Age food and some recipes from ancientcraft.co.uk
Children using a replica rotary quern - YouTube clip