Animals of Stone Age Britain

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Simon
Animals of Stone Age Britain
Main Subject
Key stage
Category
History: Stone Age to the Iron Age
Resource type
Worksheet

This resource asks children to compare animals from Stone Age Britain to those living in the world today. Children consider animals such as the woolly mammoth, wolf, wild boar and sheep, ticking statements that they believe to be true (such as whether the creature is extinct) and noting whether they remind them of any other animals.

Suitable for KS2.

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5

30/03/2020

The version of this worksheet my Y5 son was given had no "table of information" attached to it, but instead the instructions had been modified to say "Research Stone Age animals to decide ...". I would love to see the table of information and the author's view of what the "correct" answer is to some of these questions! I strongly suspect the resource was authored some years ago, when people generally assumed that elephants had evolved from woolly mammals, deer had evolved from elk, etc etc. More recent research and modern evolutionary techniques have shown that it's all a bit more complicated than that. e.g. Mammoths and elephants had a common ancestor, but evolved separately. So any child trying to use Google to "research" this, rather than just being given a table of simplified (and probably very out of date) information, will rapidly run into some complex discussion of evolutionary taxonomy. That makes the homework far more complex than probably probably intended. I had to spend a long time researching the correct answers, and then explaining them in a way my 10-year-old could understand before he could answer the questions. I don't think that's what his teacher intended (in fact he said his teacher told him that elephants evolved from mammoths and elk evolved from deer .... sigh!)

15/10/2016

5

5

30/03/2020

The version of this worksheet my Y5 son was given had no "table of information" attached to it, but instead the instructions had been modified to say "Research Stone Age animals to decide ...". I would love to see the table of information and the author's view of what the "correct" answer is to some of these questions! I strongly suspect the resource was authored some years ago, when people generally assumed that elephants had evolved from woolly mammals, deer had evolved from elk, etc etc. More recent research and modern evolutionary techniques have shown that it's all a bit more complicated than that. e.g. Mammoths and elephants had a common ancestor, but evolved separately. So any child trying to use Google to "research" this, rather than just being given a table of simplified (and probably very out of date) information, will rapidly run into some complex discussion of evolutionary taxonomy. That makes the homework far more complex than probably probably intended. I had to spend a long time researching the correct answers, and then explaining them in a way my 10-year-old could understand before he could answer the questions. I don't think that's what his teacher intended (in fact he said his teacher told him that elephants evolved from mammoths and elk evolved from deer .... sigh!)

15/10/2016

5