Bronze 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 (including archaeological excavation, and the reliability of such sources).
Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study.

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 Bronze Age artistic expression on metalwork and make replicas. Make replica Bronze Age horns and play them.

Teaching Outcomes:

To find out about Bronze Age art.
To make Bronze Age inspired art.
To make a working horn from cardboard and foil.

Children will:

Discuss the meaning of Bronze Age art.
Make some art objects inspired by Bronze Age art.
Make and play a horn.

Planning

Provided Resources

Bronze Age art objects
Making an art object from metallic card
Bronze Age horns
Making a Bronze Age horn

You Will Need

Gold metallic card
Sticky tape
Scissors
Plastic bottles

Weblinks

About ancient instruments in Ireland with some audio from irisharchaeology.ie