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Viking Settlement
This history scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how the Vikings settled and built communities in Britain in the past by referencing their culture and traditions. The class can make models of artefacts to illustrate the importance of the Viking civilization in the history of Britain.
Explore how the Vikings settled and built communities in Britain in the past by referencing their culture and traditions
Lesson One : Viking Communities
Explore how to identify and record place names that can be found in the United Kingdom that can represent Viking settlements from the past
Lesson Two : Viking Villages
Practise identifying and recording some of the daily routines that were performed by the Vikings by investigating artefacts that were used in the past
Lesson Three : Viking Houses
Investigate how to build and annotate a model of a Viking home to explain and illustrate some of the daily routines and experiences of families in the past
Lesson Four : Viking Families
Explore and record researched facts and information about the daily life of some different groups of Vikings who settled in Britain in the past
Lesson Five : Viking Beliefs
Investigate and present facts and information about some of the different gods that were worshipped by the Vikings and their spiritual beliefs about the creation of the world
Lesson Six : Viking Exhibition
Practise designing and labelling an historical artefact to display and present in a school exhibition about the lives of the Vikings in the past
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Viking Settlement
Explore how the Vikings settled and built communities in Britain in the past by referencing their culture and traditions
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