Neil Dorgan via Compfight
Kindlestown Hill is believed to be the location
of a hill fort dating back to the Iron Age.
You can read more about this if you click onthis LINK
Neil Dorgan via Compfight
Kindlestown Hill is believed to be the location
of a hill fort dating back to the Iron Age.
You can read more about this if you click onthis LINK
Click HERE to see how an Iron Age house was built.
We think this is a really cool animation.
Click HERE to see how to build an Iron Age chariot
Reviewed by Seán from Third Class: This was an interesting activity.
The story reminded me of what I learned about Egyptian burials,
There were a lot of steps and I found it a bit complicated.
I didn’t think it was as interesting as making fire and bread
in the other Iron Age activity from the BBC website HERE
Click HERE to learn more about day to day life
in the Iron Age through this interactive game on BBC. co.uk
We played this game and we learned
how they made fire,
made bread
and spun wool in the Iron Age..
Reviewed by Seán from 3rd Class. I enjoyed learning how to make fire and make bread like they did in the Iron Age. I preferred this activity to the one where you see how an Iron Age chariot is built. That activity is HERE
Click HERE to learn about the Iron Age kitchen and Click HERE on Part 1 to read about how the Celts cooked. Both these activities are from © NGfL / GCaD Cymru
Wessex Archaeology via Compfight
Review by Seán: I visited this activity. I know a bit about the Iron Age already so I felt I didn’t learn anything new. The activity is very simple and not terribly fun.
Click HERE for a Historical Cookbook
from the CookIt website.
For example you can see what the Vikings,
the Victorians and our GREAT grandparents liked to eat.
Click HERE and you can design a menu for a Viking
or a family during World War 2 who were living on rations.
BiblioArchives / LibraryArchives via Compfight
Watch this animation to see how a roundhouse in the Iron Age was built. Then click
on THIS LINK for an interactive website from the BBC on Iron Age Celts (in Wales)
to see if you can make one.
Review by Leon: I enjoyed this activity. It was fun. But I thought the Druid’s Story was a bit weird. I am in third and I think it might be a scary activity for younger children (say second class) because there is a bog body and an animal sacrifice in it. It is important to remember that this activity is set in Wales not Ireland. There will be similarities but there are also differences. Though Roman graves were found in Bray, the Romans never invaded Ireland.
Click on THIS LINK to build an Iron Age round house.
This activity is from the National Museums of Scotland.
Review: This is a good way to learn how they built their houses in the Iron Age.
Click HERE to read about the Iron Age on the Dorling Kindersley website.
Alan Denney via Compfight
This clever animation tells us about
the arrival of the Celts in Ireland.
It also explains how the use of
the fulacht fia for cooking.
Micheál and the Fulacht Fia from The Happy Artist on Vimeo.
4th Class Students Firies National School, Co Kerry
wrote, animated, filmed and performed this animation
with the help of Katherine Mulligan, Firies National School,
Kerry County Council Arts Office, The Arts Council of Ireland
and Kerry Filmmaker in Residence Lisa Fingleton.
We think it is amazing.
You can read more about how the ‘Fulacht Fia’ works if you CLICK ON THIS LINK
Click HERE to see a timeline of the Iron Age from Mr. Haughton’s
excellent Children’s British History Encyclopedia.
Click HERE for ideas for art from the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age.
Scroll down the page for child friendly projects.