Let's explore the Stone Age
This collection contains curriculum relevant videos, quizzes and games to help Years 3/4 and P4/5 History students with:
knowledge of everyday life in the Stone Age
a timeline of prehistoric Britain
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Here you will find videos and activities about the Stone Age. Try them out, and then test your knowledge with a short quiz before exploring the rest of the collection.
Take a trip through 900,000 years of prehistoric history.
Narrator: Excuse me. Yes, you. Ever wondered what prehistoric Britain was like? Great! Well let’s start at the beginning.The ancestors of humans first appeared in Britain around 900,000 years ago.
Here is one of them. I would like to introduce you to your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great……great, great, great, great, great… grandfather.
Don’t worry about that, he’s just saying pleased to meet you. These early Britons were hunter-gatherers. They used flint tools to hunt animals, like deer and mammoths.
And it got cold. Really cold, for a long time. Can you guess what it was called? No idea? It’s quite obvious… Ok, I’ll tell you… The Ice Age!
Then it was warm. Then hot. Then cold again. Once that was out of the way humans discovered farming and began to settle down in villages. This all happened during the… during the Stone Age… excuse me… stop!
Sorry, but we must get on to the Bronze Age.
It’s called the Bronze Age because people discovered how to use metals like bronze for the first time.
Welcome to the Iron Age! You’ve upgraded. People used iron in the Iron Age because it was easier to find and knock into shape. Ah, Celtic warriors. Don’t they look fierce!
The prehistoric period ended when the Romans arrived, who brought us roads and indoor plumbing.
Well, there we go, hundreds of thousands of years in a matter of minutes. Did you enjoy that? Fantastic! Me too.
Sorry, history can sometimes get a bit messy.
Exploring
Explore the interactive image below to find out what footprints, bones and tools can tell us about prehistoric people.
In the early Stone Age, people made simple hand-axes out of stones. They made hammers from bones or antlers and they sharpened sticks to use as hunting spears.
Watch the video to see how these were made.
Raksha Dave finds out how our ancient ancestors made tools and weapons from flint.
Explore this interactive picture, and try the quiz below to see what you know about the Stone Age.
Teaching resources
There are more teaching resources available on the Stone Age on ̳ Teach, like these short animated films that show the story of Britain - from the Mesolithic Stone Age through to Magna Carta.
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