Folkestone in the Iron Age.
Workshop length: 1 hour to 90 minutes.
Suitable for: KS1/KS2/KS3
Find out how life was lived in the Iron Age settlement on East Wear Bay, Folkestone! Handle genuine artefacts and try to place them in their correct time period. Find out about the archaeological evidence we have from the Iron Age, and what it can teach us about how Iron Age people lived their lives. Explore our galleries with an interactive trail and then create your own Iron Age coin to take back with you.
During the workshop you can:
- Investigate burial evidence.
- Dress up as an Iron Age person!
- Investigate real and replica Iron Age artefacts.
- Make an Iron Age coin!
National curriculum links:
History (Iron Age and Local History)
Science
Technology
KS1-2
- Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.
- Iron Age hill forts, tribal kingdoms, farming, art and culture.
- Pupils learn about significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.
- Pupils will identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.
KS3
- The study of an aspect or theme in British history that consolidates and extends pupil’s chronological knowledge from before 1066.
- Britain’s changing landscape from the Iron Age to the present.