Timeline - Stone Age to Iron Age

Explore the Stone Age to Iron Age with the interactive prehistory timeline. Downloadable PowerPoints for each era offer in-depth insights, with teaching ideas and activities.

The Prehistory Timeline and Quiz created by pupils from The Hall Primary School, Leicestershire is based on information from this Interactive Prehistory Timeline showing the changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. The information in this timeline is also available as a series of downloadable PowerPoints.

Prehistory Timeline and Quiz

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Teaching ideas

Use either the Interactive Prehistory Timeline or the PowerPoint versions of the timeline to help reinforce a sense of chronology and learn about how Britain changed from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. The Notes sections in the PowerPoints contain additional information for teachers along with a range of activity ideas.

There are also other co-created pupil prehistory resources available as the following Teaching Activities:

  • Houses

    What were houses like in the Stone Age?

  • Tools

    What type of tools did people use in the Stone Age?

  • Climate Change

    How did climate change affect people in the Stone Age?

Learning aims and outcomes

  • Learn about the types of technology used in the Stone Age to Iron Age
  • Learn about the everyday life of people in the Stone Age to Iron Age
  • Learn about changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age
  • Assess the different types of archaeological evidence from the Stone Age to Iron Age
  • Establish clear narratives within and across the periods studied
  • Understand how knowledge of the past comes from a range of sources

Extended learning and useful links