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Prehistoric Britain

In this lesson, we will be going back in time millions of years to learn all about the earliest humans! As well as exploring the different species of human and how they migrated out of Africa, we will learn all about the clues that help us know more about the distant past.

How do we know about Prehistoric Britain?

In this lesson we will learn about some prehistoric animals. These beasts roamed earth during the stone age, and many of them are now extinct. What happened?

Which animals lived in Prehistoric Britain?

The Stone Age is usually split into three different periods. In this lesson, we will learn the names of these different periods and what developments humans made during each of them.

What were the different periods in the Stone Age?

During this lesson we will study what stayed the same throughout the different Stone Age periods, as well as what changed. Humans made some very important discoveries and breakthroughs with each new period, and we will study the way these changed the way we lived.

What are the similarities and differences between Stone Age periods?

To discover things about prehistory, archaeologists and historians study objects that they find from the past. In this lesson we will look at some of these artefacts and try and work out what clues they give us about how people lived.

What can artefacts from the Stone Age tell us about how people lived during the different periods?

In this lesson we will learn all about Skara Brae, one of the best preserved Neolithic settlements in Britain. Studying the settlement will help to give us clues about how Neolithic humans lived.

What was life like in a Neolithic settlement?

In this lesson we will learn about how humans settled down and began to farm. We'll look at how crops were planted and animals were domesticated, and how that changed life for early humans.

How did farming change how humans lived?

In this lesson we will be learning all about how the Beaker culture arrived in Britain and with them brought the knowledge of how to make bronze. We'll look at some different bronze artefacts, and why using metal was such a huge change for prehistoric humans.

How did the Bronze Age change how humans lived?

In this lesson we will learn about the Celts who formed the first proper tribes in Britain. We will learn about the culture of the Celts, and how they moved on from bronze and made use of a different metal: iron.

Who were the Celts, and why did they use iron?

In this lesson we will learn all about the monuments that prehistoric Britons made, including the world famous Stonehenge!

Key Stage 2, History, Prehistoric Britain