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Lesson Two – Iron Age Jobs

This history teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and describe some of the different occupations and jobs that were performed by Iron Age Britons to complete different functions in society.
The class can compose and present some diary entries to suggest how different members of an Iron Age community might have used iron in their daily jobs.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and describe some of the different occupations and jobs that were performed by Iron Age Britons to complete different functions in society
Activities in this teaching pack include sets of cards to identify and describe some of the different occupations that were performed in the Iron Age for a range of functions and match the names of different occupations performed in the Iron Age with written descriptions.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and describe some of the different occupations that were performed by Iron Age Britons in the past.
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.
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