Hunter-gatherer homes

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Stone Age to Iron Age Britain Homes and Everyday Life

Objectives

History

  • Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British history.
  • Address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.
  • Understand how our knowledge of the (prehistoric) past is constructed from a range of sources (including archaeological excavation, and the reliability of such sources).

Design and Technology

  • Use research and develop design criteria to inform design.
  • Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas.
  • Select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks.
  • Select from and use a wider range of materials and components.

Lesson Planning

Investigate reconstructed hunter-gatherer homes. Design and make a model hunter-gatherer home and learn how to make cordage.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To learn about what Palaeolithic and Mesolithic houses looked like.
  • To build a model of a Mesolithic house

Children will:

  • Understand how reconstructions are based on evidence.
  • Create a design sketch of a model house.
  • Learn about and make cordage to use on the model prehistoric house.
  • Build a model prehistoric house.

Provided Resources

  • Reconstructed Palaeolithic and Mesolithic houses
  • Building a model Mesolithic Star Carr/Howick style house
  • How to make cordage

You Will Need

  • Raffia
  • Sticks
  • Crepe paper or cloth or hay
  • Polystyrene blocks