Learning objective
- To use deductions to explain how bronze transformed prehistoric life.
Success criteria
- I can describe how bronze arrived in
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National curriculum
History
The National curriculum for history
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Cross-curricular links
English
Spoken language
Pupils should
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Recap and recall
Display the Presentation: Speak like an expert and ask the children to work in pairs to recall what they learned in Lesson 3.
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Adaptive teaching
Pupils needing extra support
Could refer to the vocabulary on the Knowledge organiser during the Recap and recall; could use the Activity: Finding food statements from the Wrapping up during the Main event; could circle the different ways people in the Stone Age and the Bronze Age found food during the Activity: Finding food.
Pupils working at greater depth
Should consider whether the changes to how people found food in the prehistoric period happened quickly or slowly; could explain how historians know about how people found food on the Activity: Finding food; could compare the way people found food in the Bronze Age with today.
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: explaining how the use of bronze tools
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Vocabulary definitions
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bronze
A yellow-brown metal made by combining copper and tin.
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copper
A red-brown metal mixed with tin to make bronze.
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In this unit
Assessment - History Y3/4 (A): Stone Age, Bronze Age or Iron Age?
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 1: How long ago did prehistoric man live?
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 2: What does Skara Brae tell us about life in the Stone Age?
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 3: Who was this Bronze Age man?
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 4: What was the impact of bronze in prehistoric Britain?
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 5: How did trade change lives in Iron Age Britain?
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 6: What changed between the Stone Age and the Iron Age?
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Last update: 3rd September, 2025
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 1: How long ago did prehistoric man live?
Creating timelines to gain a chronological understanding of prehistory; discovering the ways historians divide the...
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 2: What does Skara Brae tell us about life in the Stone Age?
Investigating Stone Age settlements; using archaeological evidence to explore the dwellings at Skara Brae.
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 5: How did trade change lives in Iron Age Britain?
Exploring the expansion of trade in the Iron Age, children learn how trade developed from...
Assessment – History Y3/4 (A): Stone, Bronze or Iron Age?
Assessment quiz, Skills catcher and Knowledge catcher for use at the start and/or end of...
