Key Stage: 2

Description

7 discs.

A hand picked collection of programmes and clips to support the theme of "Early Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age".

Boxed set includes:

Teacher notes - detailed disc contents and useful weblinks.

Stories from the Dark Earth: Meet the Ancestors Revisited - series returning to important digs to discover how science, conservation and new finds have changed our understanding of ancient history - 2 episodes: "Families of the Stone Age" and "Sacred Women of the Iron Age"

Selected episodes from:

BBC Schools: Ancient Voices - series of short films exploring the amazing places, monuments and archaeological finds left behind from prehistoric Britain to build a picture of what it must have been like living in the Stone, Bronze and Iron ages.

Time Team: Britain's Stone Age Tsunami - Tony Robinson reveals how a huge tsunami swamped the east coast of Britain 8000 years ago. For years, Mesolithic communities were thought to be primitive hunter-gatherers. But through remarkable new archaeological excavation, Tony discovers that people in Britain at that time were living comfortable, settled lives in their own houses with varied diets and sophisticated skills

Selected Early Britain clips from:

BBC Schools: Story of Britain - animated shorts charting the major changes in Bristish history including the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age

Time Team: Boudicca's Lost Tribe - Tony Robinson traces the story of Boudicca and follows a major excavation in Norfolk that may hold the key to uncovering what happened to her tribe after they were defeated by the Roman Army.

Digging for Britain - episode 3: Age of Bronze and Iron - Alice Roberts travels back to the Bronze and Iron Age to discover what kind of a place Britain was before the Romans invaded. She examines two Hebridean Bronze Age skeletons known as the Cladh Hallan Mummies, and helps to pull up timber from a huge prehistoric monument that has been hidden in mud for at least 2000 years.

Selected Stonehenge clips from:

Stonehenge Decoded - Internationally renowned archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson has made an incredible discovery. Could it change our beliefs about the mysterious origins and use of Stonehenge?

Timewatch: Secrets of Stonehenge - An investigation into a radical theory that Stonehenge, far from being a place of burial as is commonly assumed, was in fact a place of healing.

My Favourite Place: Bill Bailey's Stonehenge - Comedian Bill Bailey visits Stonehenge to discover what it was really used for and meets the Amesbury Archer.

Horrible Histories clips - a selection of "Savage Stone Age" and "Cut Throat Celts" clips from Horrible Histories series 1 - 5.

The Croods - Cert U, 2013 (animation) - after their cave is destroyed, a caveman family must trek through an unfamiliar fantastical world with the help of an inventive boy.

We make every effort to ensure resources are appropriate for school use, however please watch prior to use to ensure suitability for your class.