Year 4 History – The Stone age to iron age
In our very first lesson, we carried out an experiment using toilet rolls to help us understand just how long ago prehistory was. Each sheet of toilet roll represented 1,000 years. When we rolled out a full roll, we realised it still wasn’t enough — in fact, we needed three complete rolls to stretch back around 900,000 years to the first evidence of human life! This really brought home to us how vast prehistory is. We also explored the concepts of BC and AD, and practised plotting significant events on timelines to see where different periods of history fit.