Ks2History

Art

• Make a Stone Age necklace (there are instructions here)

• Stone Age cave art (check out our free lesson plan here)

• Mix up natural paints (instructions here)

• Represent Stone Henge using pastels or collage materials (we like this idea)

• Celtic designs from the Iron Age

Computing

• Make a multimedia presentation about aspects of life in the Stone Age

• Write a sequence of instructions to program a robot to move round a giant map of a hillfort

• Make an animation of one of the many Stone Age story books

D&T

• Design & build a biscuit Stone Henge (check out our Stone Henge lesson plan for instructions)

• Make some comfortable clothes for Ug from the book Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age

• Design & make an Iron Age roundhouse.

• Build a prehistoric shelter. Evaluate the materials and construction

• Design & create a blanket for the baby from the book Cave Baby

• Find out about the invention of the wheel and build a moving cart

• Make a woolly mammoth model out of a milk carton (find the instructions in our 'How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth' Planning Pack)

Geography

• Find out where the best places to build Iron Age settlements are and why

• Make maps of surviving UK monuments from the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages

• Find out about the settlement of Skara Brae

• Make a visitor's guide to Stonehenge

• Make a giant map of an Iron Age hillfort for your programmable robot

History

• Find out about changes from the Stone Age to the Iron Age

• Follow the KS2History scheme of work for Stone Age to Iron Age

Literacy

• Create your own narrative based on Stone Age Boy (see the KS2History Stone Age Boy planning unit)

• Write non-chronological reports about an aspect of prehistoric life

• Write instructions for How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth (see the KS2History Woolly Mammoth planning unit)

• Create a visitor guide to Stone Henge.

• Create a newspaper report about the discovery of Skara Brae

• Write book reviews for a book about the Stone, Bronze or Iron Age (check out our book reviews to get you started)

Maths

• Map out a prehistoric settlement like Skara Brae on a grid using co-ordinates

• Design a prehistoric counting system (like this Nrich challenge)

• Work out how many years ago the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages were

• Make an accurate model of Stone Henge using scale

• Compare the lengths and heights of different prehistoric animals

• Weigh different rocks or fossils and record in a graph

• Investigate the circumferences of different stone circles

Music

• Find out about prehistoric musical instruments

• Research Stone Age musical stones and have a go at making your own set

• Create and perform raps about Stone Age life

• Make up your own lullaby to sing to the baby from the book Cave Baby

• Compose music for a journey through a cave

Science

• Investigate the rock cycle (we suggest this crayon rock cycle idea)

• Find out about how fossils are formed

• Investigate materials: stone vs. bronze vs. iron

• Learn about different layers of soil (here is a great activity)

• Investigate the best material for new trousers for Ug for the book Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age

• Learn about prehistoric animals and their food chains

• Use caves as a starting point for learning about light and shadows (you could make shadow puppets of prehistoric animals)