Year 3 Topic Fact File Focus area: Topic—The Stone Age We are introducing a new idea into school to help us develop children’s knowledge and understanding of the world. Each half term, children will be given a Fact File in class to use within their topic lessons and support their learning. This document contains the essential knowledge that children will need to know as part of the new topic they will be studying in class. These Fact Files are designed to be used during lesson time for children to use key vocabulary and facts in their work. This knowledge will be tested in class at the end of every half term in the form of a quiz. We have put the Topic Fact File on the website for you to look at with your child at home. We have also added some key question which will be set for homework for research over the next couple of weeks. We are confident that these Fact Files will help our children to gain an understanding of the wider world and help them to learn new key vocabulary. We hope that you are able to look at these at home with your child. Yours faithfully, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Gallagher and Miss Needham Key Facts LEARN IT, KNOW IT! Year 3 • The stone age was a time where early Spring Term 2020 humans used tools and weapons made Key Questions: Fact File out of stone. • What was the weather like during Stone Age • The Stone Age lasted for over 2 million the Stone Age periods? years. It's often divided into the three • How did they build houses? different periods, the Early, Middle and • When did they begin to farm? Late Stone Age. • Early Stone Age people would move form place to place to hunt for food. Key Vocabulary: • Later Stone Age people began to settle in Neolithic Man A man towards the end of the Stone Age villages and farm the land. where farming and agriculture began. • Stone Age hunter-gatherers had to find Neolithic Woman A woman towards the end of the Stone Age where farming and agriculture began. and catch everything they ate. Fur Pelt Animal skin and fur used as clothing. • Stone Age Britons made necklaces and bracelets from tusks, bones and shells. Skara Brae An archaeological site in Orkney that shows the remains of a Stone Age village. This was discovered after a storm in 1850. What did they eat? Handaxe Handaxes came in different shapes such as circular, triangular and a tear-drop shape They6 were used or cutting, hunting and Fish, raw birds’ scavenging. eggs, fruit, Borer Small pieces of flint made into small tools for nuts and piercing holes. plants. Hammerstone A rock used as a prehistoric hammer to break sharp pieces from another stone. .