Lesson One – Viking Communities
This history teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how to identify and record place names that can be found in the United Kingdom that can represent Viking settlements from the past.
The class can produce and label maps showing the location of Viking settlements and explain and record reasons as to why each place was a suitable location for a community.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to identify and record place names that can be found in the United Kingdom that can represent Viking settlements from the past
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe where the Vikings settled in Britain in the past and differentiated worksheets to locate and record some of the different places where Vikings chose to settle in the United Kingdom in the past.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and record place names in the United Kingdom that can represent Viking settlements from the past.
This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to explore how the Vikings settled and built communities in Britain in the past by referencing their culture and traditions. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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