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Helping children to learn visually with a Stone Age display

The best place to start is with a timeline - they make great central features and really help children to comprehend the span of the Stone Age period.

If you have other History displays in your classroom then the visual element is a great opportunity for drawing comparisons between different periods. You could include pictures of what people wore, the buildings they lived in. You could even include pictures of any well-known archeologists and historians who gave us the bulk of our knowledge about the different periods today so children can get a good sense of who discovered what and when - what were their sources and their methods of finding evidence and forming conclusions?

Ideas for getting started with your own Stone Age displays

• Display samples of the different materials that Stone Age people used - . Your pupils could research each one and write about what its properties are and why these were helpful to Stone Age people.
• This colourful Stone Age Animals Large Display Cut Out Pack will give you some decoration as well as a research and reporting task. What can children find out about the different animals during the Stone Age? How were they used by people - for food, clothing, or did they simply coexist?
• This Stone Age ‘Did You Know?’ Display Banner would be good to display at the start of your topic and add interesting things to as you go along. Perhaps your class could choose their favourite thing that they learned in each lesson and choose a picture to represent it with some accompanying text.
• Don’t shy away from the three dimensional when putting your display together! This Stone Age Tools Paper Models Resource Pack gives you a fun creative activity to get on with with your class - it give them the opportunity to study the tools in a bit more detail and will add another dimension to your Stone Age Display. Highlighting the development of tools with models can help children to remember how key these were to human development during the Stone Age - can children imagine how revolutionary the tools on display were when nothing as effective had existed before? What changes do children think tools brought to people’s lives during the Stone Age?
• Divide your display in two to compare the Middle and New Stone Ages - visual comparisons with lots of pictures can really help children to understand and remember similarities and differences.