Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to describe the remains of a Stone Age farming settlement from the past, a shared reading text to identify and explain how and why people in the Stone Age began to farm animals and crops and a template to label a model to describe how and why people farmed animals and crops during the Stone Age.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how and why people in the Stone Age began to harvest crops and started farming animals in their settlements.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to investigate and record how different aspects of life in prehistoric Britain developed and changed during the Stone Age. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.