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The Stone Age

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Let's explore the Stone Age

An illustration of a young boy looking at three people from the Stone Age

This collection contains curriculum relevant videos, quizzes and games to help Years 3/4 and P4/5 History students with:

  • knowledge of everyday life in the Stone Age

  • a timeline of prehistoric Britain

These educational resources are hand-picked from ˿ Bitesize and the wider ˿.

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Here you will find videos and activities about the Stone Age. Try them out, and then test your knowledge with a short quiz before exploring the rest of the collection.

Take a trip through 900,000 years of prehistoric history.

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Exploring

Explore the interactive image below to find out what footprints, bones and tools can tell us about prehistoric people.

In the early Stone Age, people made simple hand-axes out of stones. They made hammers from bones or antlers and they sharpened sticks to use as hunting spears.

Watch the video to see how these were made.

Raksha Dave finds out how our ancient ancestors made tools and weapons from flint.

Explore this interactive picture, and try the quiz below to see what you know about the Stone Age.

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Teaching resources

There are more teaching resources available on the Stone Age on ˿ Teach, like these short animated films that show the story of Britain - from the Mesolithic Stone Age through to Magna Carta.

˿ Teach has thousands of free, curriculum-linked resources to help deliver lessons - all arranged by subject and age group.

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Play fun and educational primary games in science, maths, English, history, geography, art, computing and modern languages.

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