Caves

Possible activities

• Stone Age

Ecosystems (Animals extinct from hunting and which alive now?)

Ecosystems (farming how might it affect our habitats?)

Animal classification

• Stone Age boats (buoyancy)

• Adaption and extinction (what adaptations would woolly mammoths need to survive now?)

Extinction theories

Sound pitch and volume (stone age man-made drums as part of religious rituals)

How does a drum make a sound?

Thickness of material

Different pots and bowls to make drums.

• Light and shadows (scientists think that stone age man were interested in sun and moon.

Stonehenge

Shadows – how are they formed.

• Stone age cave paintings (made by mixing powders and liquids)

• Caves as shelters (how are caves formed?)

• Natural resources (metals – how tools were made from metal in Bronze Age)

Expressive arts 

• Cave paintings

• Drum music   

Literacy 

• Vocabulary – stone age, Palaeolithic age and Mesolithic age

• Science investigations as listed above 

Numeracy

• Database (animal classification)

DCF

• Animal classification – database

• Adobe creative – ecosystem work 

Resources