Hunting and gathering

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Stone Age to Iron Age Britain Food

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Objectives

History

Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British history establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study.
Address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.

D&T

Understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet.
Prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques.
Understand seasonality, and know where and how a variety of ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed.

Lesson Planning

Find out what kinds of animals hunters killed in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, what plants they gathered, and make a prehistoric stew.

Teaching Outcomes:

To find out about earlier Stone Age food production and cooking.
To cook a stew similar to what might have been eaten in the earlier Stone Age.

Children will:

Use background knowledge to make deductions about Stone Age flora and fauna.
Follow a recipe.
Use background knowledge to make deductions about Stone Age cooking.

Planning

Provided Resources

Prehistoric animals
Hunting techniques
Plants
Recipe for Mesolithic stew

You Will Need

Kitchen and cooking utensils
Meat (venison would be best, or lamb)
Small new potatoes
Mushrooms, Spinach or cabbage, water

Weblinks

Evidence for Stone Age food and some recipes from ancientcraft.co.uk
Cooking with hot rocks by Native Americans YouTube clip
Article about cooking with hot rocks from outdoorlife.com