Description
Changes in Britain from Stone Age to the Iron Age – 5 Guided Reading Scripts
Suggested time allocation: 20 minutes each. Reading time – around 5 minutes each, not including quiz and discussion suggestions
6 speakers for each:
- Narrator
- Hunter Gatherer
- Farmer
- Stone Age Man
- Bronze Age Man
- Iron Age Man
1. When? Timeline
· 8 million years ago – apes/early humans – fossilized remains in Africa
· 4 million years ago – Cavemen
· 2.7 million years ago – Stone Age (First of the ‘3 Ages’: Stone, Bronze and Iron)
· 2.7 million years ago (i) Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age
· 20 – 10 thousand years ago (ii) Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
· 10 thousand years ago (iii) Neolithic or New Stone Age
· 4,000 BC Farming throughout Britain
· 2,000 BC Bronze Age in Britain
· 600 BC Iron Age in Britain
2. Key Changes and Factors affecting Change:
– Ape to Caveman (the Physical development that enabled more use of hands)
– Development of Tools – starting with flints; and later Weapons
– Stone to Bronze to Iron
– Impact of Ice Age
– Hunter-Gatherer to Farmer
3. Changes – Things
– Weapons
– Food/Storage
– Farming Techniques
– Pottery, Bronze, Iron
– Impact on Population
4. Changes – People
– How they looked (dressed)
– How they communicated
– How they organised themselves
– Farming
– Trade
– War
5.
Evidence
– Olduvai Gorge flints/ Flint Mines
– Cave Paintings
– Skara Brae
– Field Patterns
– Stonehenge
– Hill forts – Danebury Hill
TIME ALLOCATION
These plays are all approximately 5 minutes reading time, plus quiz and discussion time.
Suggested time allocation: Around 20 minutes This will obviously vary according to how much time is spent on discussion. I have suggested some possible themes – others can, of course, be added.
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