A one-page Year 3 history knowledge organiser for the Stone Age to the Iron Age. It splits the period into three eras with dates, from about 800,000 BC to AD 43. A vocabulary table defines seven words, including smelting, roundhouse and archaeologist. A labelled picture shows the inside of an Iron Age roundhouse. Four key questions close the page. There are no tasks to answer, so there is no answer key. It follows the England National Curriculum for history.
Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age
“Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age”
All three eras are on the page, with farming, metalwork and hill forts as the main changes. The four key questions ask pupils to explain those changes.
Three boxes: the Stone Age with flint tools and Skara Brae, the Bronze Age with copper, tin and Stonehenge, and the Iron Age with hill forts like Maiden Castle.
Definitions for hunter-gatherer, Neolithic, smelting, roundhouse, hill fort, tribe and archaeologist.
A cut-away picture labelled thatched roof, wattle and daub, timber frame and central hearth.
Four questions, such as why bronze was more useful than stone and why Iron Age tribes built on high hills.
Stick it in
Glue a copy in books at the start of the unit and come back to the four key questions at the end.
Vocabulary quiz
Cover the definitions column and ask pupils to define smelting and hill fort from memory.
Roundhouse models
Use the labelled roundhouse when pupils make models from sticks and clay. Each model needs the four labelled parts.
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