1. HISTORY Can I show my developing knowledge of the past by knowing where people and events fit into a chronological framework? Create a timeline including past history topics and current personal family details. Use historical vocabulary relating to the past. Can I identify some of the different ways in which the past can be represented? Research the use of art to record life in the Stone Age.Use cave paintings and carvings to give children a picture of life. Show the achievements of the people ie. making fire, inventing the wheel and tool making. http://rockart.ncl.ac.uk/interactive/generic2.asp?ljpid=63 Can I examine non-written sources of evidence about the Stone Age and make deductions from primary sources? Make an evidence table using photographic evidence of artefacts. Use enquiry skills to discover what the Stone Age and people were like. Devise questions using evidence shown in film. Use BBC History of the world. Can I understand how farming changed the way people lived in Neolithic times? Place different ages on time line. Research Skara Brae using ICT. Explain change from hunter gatherer to farmer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/learning/primary/skarabrae/ Can I explain how the Bronze Age was different to the Stone Age? Can I explain how evidence is used to make detailed observations finding answers to questions about the past? Discuss how bronze was discovered and how tools and other items were made from it. Use time line to indicate when the Stone Age stopped and the Bronze Age began. Work out the reasons how making things out of bronze made huge changes to their way of life. Discuss the influence of the Beaker People. What do grave gods tell us about the Bronze Age? Can I explain how British society changed in the Iron Age? Research Iron Age Forts. Discuss how society changed a lot and people lived in tribes who were often at war with each other. They built hill forts for themselves where they could live and farm and these hill forts provided protection and a good lookout place for any enemy tribes approaching. LITERACY Can I write a stories with a historical setting? Can I write a newspaper report? Can I write a non-chronological report? Extended Writing Create historical settings and characters. Write a newspaper article about the great storm at Skara Brae. Write a report on the artefacts for the class museum. Speaking and Listening Can I speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English Can I give well-structured descriptions, explanations? Group presentation of one of the ages at the end of the unit. Class text The Boy with the Bronze Axe – Kathleen Fidler ART Can I create sketches recording my observations? Use evidence of Paleolithic wall paintings from Lascaux cave paintings. Sketch and practise different orientations for cave paintings. Adapt them to fit the types of animals on Skara Brae. Can I use different materials to create a cave painting? Use clay to create the texture and drawing surface of the cave. Investigate materials which could have been used as paint brushes and paint. SMSC – SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT Can I understand how societies function? Discuss how the Stone Age people organised themselves into family groups and elders.Who were the most important members of the tribe? How did they make decisions? D.T. Can I design a jam tart? DT unit involves designing and making a jam tart. Children will design their pastry in the shape of a Stone Age artefact. Link to the oldest jam tart in the world. Challenge children to design a jam tart from the Stone Age. What ingredients would have been available? RRSA Article 28 - Every child has the right to an education Why didn’t Stone Age children have an education? Did they still learn in other ways.Compare the learning of 2014 and the Stone Age. SCIENCE Can I construct a food chain? Construct food chains using the animals and vegetation in existence in the Stone Age. STONE AGE TO IRON AGE AUTUMN 1 YEAR 4