Year 3 Knowledge Organiser: Stone Age to Iron Age

Skills-Locate places on larger scale maps e.g. map of Europe. (G)-Analyse evidence and begin to draw conclusions e.g. make comparisons between two locations using photos/ pictures (G)-Use NF books, stories, atlases, pictures/photos and internet as sources of information. (G)-Place the time studied on a timeline (H)-Sequence several events or artefacts (H)- Find out about every day lives of people in time studied (H)- Use a range of sources to find out about a period (H)- Begin to use the library and internet for research (H)

Knowledge

• Stone Age Man, our ancestors, used tools made of stone about 3.4 million years ago.• There are three periods of the Stone Age: Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) first stone tools to the end of the last Ice Age,

Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age), End of last Age Ice until the start of farming then the Neolithic (New Stone Age) from the start of farming until the start of using metal tools.

• Early cave paintings show scenes of everyday life and animals they hunted such as deer, bison, boars and horses. They were found in Lascaux, France and are 18000 years old.

• Early humans began using metal tools 2500 BCE (4500 years ago) made of Bronze. They used it to make things like jewellery as well as things for farming and building. This was called the Bronze Age.

• The Iron Age started in 800BCE until the Romans came to Briton in 43AD. More useful farming equipment had been made from iron as well as weapons like swords.

Stone Age to Iron Age: Year 3 Knowledge Mat

FactsStonehenge in Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire is a huge stone circle built in the Neolithic Age 5000 years ago. It was probably built for religious ceremonies but nobody really knows.Stone Age people used to live in the mouth of caves but where there were none they lived in tent like structures made of branches and animal skins to keep out the weather.Stone Age people left cave paintings, deep inside caves made from crushed berries, charcoal and crushed rocks that they mixed with animal fats to draw scenes on the wall of their lives and them hunting.Around 2500BC settlers from mainland Europe brought metalworkers to Britain who knew how to work with copper. Britons learned to make objects from copper, gold and bronze then traded these in ships to Europe. People in Britain began mining tin and other metals.

By the Iron Age people lived in larger settlements inside walls and surrounded by ditches in a hillfort. This was to protect them against enemy clans close by. There were lots of battles at this time.

Subject Specific Vocabulary

ArchaeologistPerson who studies objects that belonged to people who lived in the past, to learn about their culture and society.

Artefact Object, tools or ornament made by a person

Site A place where something is or was located

SettlementA place where people live together e.g. a village

Chronological Put events in time order

Shelter Place where people live to protect them from the weather

PrehistoricA time when before there was any written evidence of events

HillfortSettlement protected by walls and ditches on a hill, to see enemies approaching

Hunter gatherer

Early humans who hunted animals and gathered nuts and berries in their local area

FlintSharp rock that can be shaped into arrowheads, axes etc

Stone Age When prehistoric people made tools and weapons from stone, then started to farm.

Bronze AgeWhen tools and weapons were made of Bronze

Iron AgeWhen tools and weapons were made out of iron

Hand axeShaped flint tied onto a wooden handle used as a tool or weapon.

Exciting Books

Stone Age to Iron Age (The History Detective Investigates) Paperback –14 Apr 2016by Clare Hibbert (Author)

Useful Websites

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/stone-age/

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/iron-age/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z82hsbk