Education Shed Ltd, Severn House, Severn Bridge, Riverside North, Bewdley, Worcestershire, UK, DY12 1AB Use the information in the book to write a set of instructions, teaching people how to carry out one of the tasks that Stone Age people had to do (e.g. making fire, making tools). Pupils could be asked to make a list of the ways life in the New Stone Age was different to life in the Mesolithic period: did it change a little or a lot?

This collection contains curriculum relevant videos, quizzes and games to help Years 3/4 and P4/5 History students with: Create some puppets of modern and stone age people. Can you use these to perform a play in which the characters explain and compare what their lives are like? The ending was my absolute favourite with the picture and a simple sentence as it had so much impact and drove home the idea that cave paintings were discovered by historians many years later and can be used as evidence. It was also just so bittersweet and lovely as it reminded us that Om really did exist! In the warm periods between the Ice Ages, Britain became as hot as Africa is today! Elephants, hippos, rhinos and hyenas all moved north through Europe to live in Britain.

Stone Age people cut up their food with sharpened stones and cooked it on a fire . After a good day’s hunting people could feast on meat. But the next day they had to start finding food again! Around 6,500 years ago, a change took place in the way people lived: hunter-gatherers settled in one place and kept animals and grew crops, although they still hunted wild animals when the chance presented itself. And it got cold. Really cold, for a long time. Can you guess what it was called? No idea? It’s quite obvious… Ok, I’ll tell you… The Ice Age!

It’s called the Bronze Age because people discovered how to use metals like bronze for the first time. Stories and Poems Popular Stories and Authors Stone Age Boy - Satoshi Kitamura Stone Age Boy - Satoshi Kitamura Satoshi Kitamura was born in 1956. After dropping out of school to pursue art, Kitamura decided not to attempt a 10-year apprenticeship as a potter and instead worked as a graphic artist. He was not trained as an artist, but at the age of 19 began to do commercial work as an illustrator for adverts and magazines. He moved from Tokyo to London in 1979 where he worked mainly at designing greeting cards.An introduction to life in Neolithic Britain through the eyes of a typical family as they attempt to hunt and farm enough food to live on. Here is one of them. I would like to introduce you to your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great… This amazing picture book about the Stone Age is entertaining and educational at the same time, my year 3/4 class loved it. Then it was warm. Then hot. Then cold again. Once that was out of the way humans discovered farming and began to settle down in villages. This all happened during the… during the Stone Age… excuse me… stop!