Neolithic art and music

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

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).
  • 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

Find out that there was a taboo about depicting humans in the Neolithic art, and learn how to carve replica objects. Make and play replica drum.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To find out about Neolithic art.
  • To make Neolithic inspired art.
  • To make a working drum from cardboard and paper or tin can and fabric.

Children will:

  • Discuss the meaning of Neolithic art
  • Make some sculpture inspired by Neolithic art
  • Make and play a drum

Provided Resources

  • Neolithic art from the British Isles
  • Making your own Neolithic art object
  • Making a replica drum

You Will Need

  • Lumps of air-dried clay
  • Clay modelling tools
  • Jam jar
  • Fabric