Starter quiz
- Which era is the Iron Age part of?
- prehistory ✓
- Roman Britain
- Victorian Era
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- When did the Iron Age begin?
- 2 million years ago
- 280 years ago
- 2,800 years ago ✓
- 2,000 years ago
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- The Iron Age began when people started to use ______ to make tools and weapons.
- 'iron' ✓
- What were the people inhabiting Britain during the Iron Age called?
- The Neanderthals
- The Celts ✓
- The Romans
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- The Celts living in Britain during the Iron Age were mostly ...
- brick layers
- hunter-gatherers
- farmers ✓
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- Match the word to the correct definition
- Iron Age⇔a period in history when people used iron ✓
- Celts⇔groups of people living in Britian and Europe during the Iron Age ✓
- tribes⇔a group of people living and working together ✓
Exit quiz
- A tool used to push through the soil to create a line for planting seeds in the Iron Age is called...
- an ard plough ✓
- an iron sickle
- an iron axe
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- What was the iron sickle used for in the Iron Age?
- to plant seeds such as oats
- to cut crops when ready for harvesting ✓
- to prepare the land for planting crops
- to build fences
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- Iron tools made completing farming tasks ______ and ...
- slower
- quicker ✓
- easier ✓
- harder
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- What tool did Iron Age farmers use to cut down wildwood?
- iron sickle
- ard plough
- iron axe ✓
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- Match the keyword to the correct definition.
- enclosed⇔an area surrounded by a fence, ditch or wall ✓
- crops⇔plants grown for food ✓
- wildwood⇔forest or woodland areas growing naturally ✓
- Order the changes to farming during the Iron Age.
- 1⇔Iron tools made farming easier and more successful
- 2⇔More land was needed for crops and animals
- 3⇔Iron Age farmers chopped down the wildwood
- 4⇔Iron Age farmers began to enclose their land and settlements
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Key learning points
- Iron farming tools like the ard plough could be used in heavy clay soils and wetter conditions.
- This allowed a greater variety of crops to be grown, such as oats, and more land to become available for farming.
- Iron also allowed the creation of stronger tools, such as axes, meaning further clearing of the wildwood.
- With more farming, the number of enclosed settlements grew and land ownership became more important.
Common misconception
Farmers in the Iron Age had the same tools farmers have today such as tractors.
Ensure children understand that farming was done by hand with a few iron tools to help. New tools such as the ard plough and iron sickle made a huge impact on farming.
Keywords
Crops - plants grown for food are called crops
Ard plough - an ard plough was an iron tool used by Iron Age farmers to create lines in the soil for planting seeds
Sickle - a sickle was an iron tool used by Iron Age farmers to cut crops when they were ready to harvest
Wildwood - forest or woodland areas growing naturally are called wildwood
Enclosed - if an area is enclosed it is surrounded by a wall or fence
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