Photo courtesy of Greekgeek Orange Class Homework Summer Term 2016 This term we will be exploring Stone Age to Iron Age. Over the Easter holiday your challenge is to do some research into this topic and record it in your homework book. In the summer term, please pick one to do each week. Remember, you also have Abacus maths activities, times tables, spellings, reading and you could also access Phonics Play : Username: ALLSAINTS5 Password: SAINTS

Photo courtesy of Greekgeek Useful Websites: BBC Primary history: British Museum website: age/iron age/stone age.co.uk/ Woodlands junior has timelines of prehistoric Britain with interesting facts and information :resources.woodlands- junior.kent.sch.uk/homework/timeline.html Stone Age information for children: timetravellerkids.co.uk/time-travel/stone-age All about a day in the life of a Stone Age boy: Facts, songs and videos about the Stone Age: wizzley.com/the-stone-age- for-kids Artefacts and useful information:

Stone Age to the Iron Age: Tools Instructions: look carefully at the image. What do you think these objects are used for? Where do you think they were found? What do you think they are made of? How do you think they were used? Use a drawing to help you if necessary. Challenge: Compare each of the 6 photographs. Which item would you prefer to use and why?

Stone Age to the Iron Age: Houses Instructions: use the illustration and answer the questions below: 1.Who might have lived here? 2.Why do you think this spot has been chosen to build on? 3.How would this building/monument have been used? Challenge: Draw a picture of someone who might have lived in this roundhouse. Use the phrases below to help you label it: I look like I am I feel I have

Stone Age to the Iron Age: Problem Solving Please use a written method to solve 1) 18 cavemen collected flint arrow heads. Each caveman had 12 arrow heads. How many flint arrow heads did they collect altogether? 2) 13 fires were found painted in a cave. Each fire showed 20 animals running away from it. How many animals was that altogether? 3) There were 25 hand-axes found in a house at Skara Brae. If the same amount were found in 26 other houses, how many hand-axes were found altogether? 4) There were 12 Stone Age activities at Cliffe Castle. A class of 30 children visited the museum. Each child did each activity once. How many activities did the class do altogether? Extension: Can you now create some of your own?

Stone Age to the Iron Age: Stone Henge Can you answer the questions below? What is Stone Henge? How was Stone Henge built? What was Stone Henge used for? You may find this website useful to help answer the questions: 2hv Or go to Google and search - BBC Stone Henge, kids.

Stone Age to the Iron Age: Counting These drawings were found in La Pileta cave in Spain and could be up to years old. What do you think these drawings represent? Could they be about counting things? What might 'stone-age' people count? Could they be the earliest known number patterns? You could try and make up your own way of recording counting. Then you could access the site below and challenge yourself with some of the maths games.

Stone Age to the Iron Age: Caves During the Stone Age, people lived in caves. If you had to live in a cave what would you like it to look like and what would be in it? Be as creative and imaginative as you like! Maybe you could build your own 3D cave to bring in!

Stone Age to the Iron Age: Bronze This is a late Bronze Age jug. Compare this to a jug that you would use today. How is it similar? How is it different? What do you think it was used for? Look at the patterns on the side of the jug. Can you copy those patterns into your book? How do you think it was made? Challenge: What do you think it is made of? Imagine you had to describe this jug to someone in a telephone conversation. How would you describe it?

Stone Age to the Iron Age: Food In the Stone Age, humans ate what they could find in the land around them. They ate mainly fish, birds and meat such as mammoths, sloth, foxes, sabre toothed cats and rabbits. They also ate seeds and berries. Can you design a menu for a Stone Age man? Include a starter, main course and dessert. Challenge: Describe what a Stone Age restaurant would look like.

Stone Age to the Iron Age: Pottery These are Bronze Age pots. What can you see on them? How might they have been used? What are they made of? Challenge: Invent a pot design of your own, showing something important at this time in history. Photo courtesy of Greekgeek

Stone Age to the Iron Age: Problem Solving Imagine that you have been whisked back in time to Pre-historic Britain. You have been allowed to take one person or one object from What or who would you take and how would you explain your choice? Explain your choice in your homework book.

Stone Age to the Iron Age: Problem Solving Mammoth Challenge: Ug is the champion mammoth hunter in Mud village. On week 1, he catches 1 mammoth, on week 2 he catches 2. Each week he catches double the number he caught in the week before. Pog tries to beat Ug. He catches 15 mammoths every week. By the end of week 10, who will have caught the most mammoths? When will Ug overtake Pog’s score? How many mammoths would Pog need to catch every week to beat Pog after 1 year? You can choose how to record your answers. As an extra challenge, come up with some more questions of your own about Ug and Pog and try to answer them.

Stone Age to the Iron Age: Neolithic Game This image shows a father and son in the Neolithic (late Stone Age) era. Design a computer game that would teach children about life in the Stone Age. Explain the different levels. Set some challenges/quests. How could you pick the character that represents you (the player)? Describe the environment that the character exists in. How will your character survive the harsh, Neolithic world? Challenge: Design the main character in your game and list his/her strengths and weaknesses. Photo courtesy of Wessex Archaeology