Lesson Six – Viking Exhibition

This history teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise designing and labelling an historical artefact to display and present in a school exhibition about the lives of the Vikings in the past.
The class can explain how and why the Vikings used different artefacts in their daily lives in the past for a range of different functions and community events.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise designing and labelling an historical artefact to display and present in a school exhibition about the lives of the Vikings in the past
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the different artefacts that were left behind by the Vikings, a worksheet to make a model of an historical artefact to use in a school exhibition about the lives of the Vikings and a template to select and record information about a model Viking historical artefact used in the past.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to design and label an historical artefact to use in a school exhibition about the lives of the Vikings.
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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