Activities in this teaching pack include shared reading texts to describe some of the special festivals celebrated by Iron Age communities in the past and explain how to record information about an artefact that was used during the Iron Age and a template to select and record historical findings about an Iron Age artefact.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore and illustrate how people in the Iron Age celebrated special festivals and worshipped different gods.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to investigate how Britain developed and changed during the Iron Age by exploring how historians find out about the past using primary sources including archaeology. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.