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Lesson Two – Bronze Age Chiefs

This history teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how to identify and describe some of the ways that people were governed and ruled during the Bronze Age in Britain by chiefs and tribal leaders.
The class can practise composing and performing a play script to illustrate how bartering was used during this period in history to support trading between communities.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to identify and describe some of the ways that people were governed and ruled during the Bronze Age in Britain by chiefs and tribal leaders
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the different artefacts that were made and used during the Bronze Age from gold, a set of cards to explain special ways that people lived and worked during the Bronze Age and a shared reading text to explain how to compose a play script to illustrate trading between communities during this period in history.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and describe some of the different ways that people were governed and ruled during the Bronze Age in Britain.
This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to research and illustrate how life in Britain developed and changed during the Bronze Age including the growth of communities and trade. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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