Enquiry based lesson on images of the remains of buildings found from a study of Skara Brae, a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland.
Learning objectives
- Pupils grasp that discovery of Skara Brae was quite recent and that changed our view of early communities about 10,000 years ago.
- Pupils can make deductions about way of life by studying evidence of buildings left behind e.g.
– How do we know that the people living there were fishermen?
– How do we know that they ate pigs and cattle?
– How do we know that they grew crops?
– How do we know that their houses were dark?
Step 1
Start the sessions on Skara Brae with a story and then move onto where it was and when the event occurred. (If you want a little more background yourself then we have added some answers to common questions about the site – see downloadable resource below)
Resource sheet 1 gives you an account: you might want to make more dramatic. You might like to include images as you tell the story. Slide 3 shows
