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Stone Age KS2 – Explore life as a hunter-gatherer

What's included?

PDF lesson plan, teacher's guide, challenge cards and blank visual card templates

Key Stage

KS2

Age

Years 3-6

Subjects

This Stone Age KS2 lesson will help children to learning about Britain’s ancient inhabitants and the challenges they faced. Pupils will also draw comparisons with modern life.

This resource includes a complete lesson plan, plus a full teacher’s guide for a KS2 history lesson on hunter/gatherers. It also contains challenge cards that feature five potential concerns for hunters and five for gatherers. There’s also a set of blank visual card templates.

Stone Age KS2 lesson

This fun ‘outdoorsy’ lesson allows children to explore the challenges of life as a Stone Age man or woman. At the same time they’ll also apply English skills to produce a good-quality piece of writing.

Children should already have been introduced to the Stone Age topic and have some prior knowledge. You will need at least two adults to deliver this lesson – one to lead the hunters and one to lead the gatherers.

This lesson has the potential to be carried out over a couple of days or shortened to fit into one afternoon lesson, dependent on the time you have available.

What they’ll learn

  • Devise historically valid questions about Stone Age life
  • Construct an informed response using relevant historical information
  • Recognise the challenges faced by hunter-gatherers in the Stone Age
  • Identify similarities and differences between Stone Age life and life today

Julianne Britton is a qualified teacher with eight years’ experience and owner of missbritton.co.uk where she offers downloadable teaching resources and private tuition services.

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