A no-prep, 6-lesson history unit on Changes in Britain from the Stone Age. Written for Year 3 (ages 7-8). Pick it up at lunchtime, teach it that afternoon - every lesson has a full teacher script, projectable slides, a pupil worksheet, and an exit quiz.
Driving question: What was life in Britain LIKE before villages, farming and metal - and how do we even know?

What’s included

• 6 x Teacher lesson plans (Word, fully scripted)
• 6 x Pupil worksheets in 3 differentiated tiers (Support / Core / Stretch)
• 6 x Projectable slide decks (PowerPoint, ~22 slides each)
• 6 x Exit quizzes (single-page printable, with answer key)
• 1 x Knowledge Organiser (Word, 2-page A4 landscape)
• 1 x End-of-unit assessment with baseline + mark scheme
• 50+ original illustrations included throughout
• Curated kid-appropriate YouTube videos linked from each lesson’s slide deck

Curriculum links

• UK National Curriculum - KS2 History: Changes in Britain from the Stone Age - A Year 3 study of Stone Age Britain
• Late Stone Age hunter-gatherers in Britain
• The arrival of farming - the Neolithic Revolution
• Stone Age sites: Cheddar Man, Star Carr, Skara Brae, Stonehenge

What pupils will learn

• Pupils know the Stone Age in Britain lasted around 7,000 years (c. 8000-2500 BC)
• Pupils know HUNTER-GATHERERS hunted wild animals and gathered plants - they did NOT farm
• Pupils know about CHEDDAR MAN and what his bones told us
• Pupils know FARMING arrived in Britain around 4000 BC (the NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION) and changed everything
• Pupils know about SKARA BRAE on Orkney and STONEHENGE on Salisbury Plain - Britain’s most famous Stone Age sites

What pupils will be able to do

• Pupils can place Stone Age dates on a long timeline
• Pupils can describe a Stone Age artefact and explain what it tells us
• Pupils can use ‘because’, ‘so’ and ‘however’ to explain ideas about the past
• Pupils can ask good historical questions when sources are limited
• Pupils can compare hunter-gatherer life with farming life