Lesson Three – Viking Houses
This history teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to 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.
The class can explain and record how Viking houses were constructed and how families used the living spaces each day in comparison to families living in modern homes today.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to 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
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe how the Vikings built houses in the past and a worksheet to select and use materials to make a model of a house used by the Vikings to record the daily routines of families in the past.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to build and annotate a model of a Viking home to explain daily routines of families in 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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