Pre-History was exciting! Let's learn about life in the Stone, Bronze and Iron ages with escape rooms

This fun class is run over four weeks, learners will have fun and learn about different aspects of pre-history and the different time periods

Each week will consist of a video lesson which the children can watch to learn about the particular age of history we will be working on, they will then use the knowledge they have gained to play an online escape room which I created for them. They will use the OutSchool classroom to discuss the clues and support each other in solving the game. The children will need to work as a team to work through the game and prove they have learnt the information with this fun lesson.

While this class does not meet live, the children will still be expected to participate by playing the online game with the other students, commenting on discussions in the classroom and making decisions as a class.

The games are created by myself, learners will be given a secure url that temporarily hosts the game so it is only available to members of our class. No additional log ins will be required, once the class ends the url will expire. 

Week 1: This week we will learn about the first part of the Stone Age, the Paleolithic Period, the children will learn when it was, how it is studied, what life was like and the advancements humans made. After the lesson the learners will be invited to take part in a fun escape room game, where they can work as part of a team to solve puzzles using the information they have learnt in the lesson. The learners will be expected to complete the puzzles and support each other with clues they discover. The information they have gained about the Paleolithic Period will be needed to solve the clues and support each other in their escape. 

Week 2: This week we will learn about the second stage of the Stone Age, the Mesolithic Period, the children will learn about the progress made to this distinctive period, how humans changed in this time, what daily life was like and what led to these changes. After the lesson the learners again be will be invited to take part in a fun escape room game as in the previous week, learners will be expected to play the game together, supporting each other and solving the clues as a class throughout the week.

Week 3: This week we will learn about the final part of the Stone Age, the Neolithic Period, the children will learn what it means to leave the Stone Age, details and facts about the Stone Age overall, the way the world looked and important facts. As with previous weeks, after the lesson the learners again be will be invited to take part in a fun escape room game to use their new knowledge to solve puzzles as part of a team.

Week 4: This week we will be looking at the Bronze Age, we will learn how people transitioned into the Bronze Age, information about the inventions of the time and what daily life looked like. The escape room for the Bronze Age will be set in a museum. 

Week 5: In our final week we will be looking at the Iron Age, we will learn how people learnt to use the materials around them to advance as a society, information about the time period and what daily life looked like. The escape room this week will also include revision of the other subjects covered in throughout the course.