Stone Age –> Iron Age

How did life change between the Neolithic to the Iron Age?

Throughout the first half term, Year 3 turned back time to look at the prehistoric period, starting with the Stone Age. To hook them into the learning, they had to look at the artefacts that were left in Mrs McGillivray’s office, to find out who they belonged to. The children enjoyed being able to interact with the items to explore them in detail, before explaining to the rest of the year group and their teachers who they believed had left them.

As the learning progressed, they learnt about the hunter gatherers of the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, before exploring how the introduction of farming during the newer Stone Age (Neolithic), improved people’s lives.

During the Bronze Age, we learnt how people came over to England bringing with them the knowledge of smelting, which improved tools for farming and weapons.

Finally, during the Iron Age, people discovered Iron and how this revolutionised farming and peoples’ ability to once again, improve tool making, due to the stronger and more robust properties of iron.

The children had to evaluate these new technologies to show whether they had a positive or negative impact on people’s lives. They created impact paperchains to record their evaluations.

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