The Viking home

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Invaders and Settlers: Vikings Viking Way of Life

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Objectives

History

Understand how knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.
Ask historically valid questions.
Learn about the success of the Viking invasion.

English

Use simple organisational devices such as headings and sub-headings.
Evaluate and edit by assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements.

Design and Technology

Apply their understanding of how to strengthen, stiffen and reinforce more complex structures.
Investigate and analyse a range of existing products.

Lesson Planning

Research Viking longhouses; write a Viking estate agent description; design and make a group longhouse model.

Teaching Outcomes:

To make comparisons between the Viking home and our own homes.
To investigate the reasons why the Viking home was the way it was.
To use persuasive writing features in describing a Viking house in estate agent’s details.
To use non-fiction writing features and labels.
To analyse the way Vikings built their homes and to trial similar ideas in their own designs.

Children can:

Compare materials used for a Viking Longhouse with modern day materials.
Observe the key features of a Viking Longhouse.
Persuade others to want to live in a Viking Longhouse.
Design and build own longhouse.

Planning

Provided Resources

A Viking longhouse
Viking longhouse Easier resource
Photos Viking longhouse
Writing frame resource
Longhouse statements
Planning and evaluation
Design and Technology resource
Optional homework activity

You Will Need

DK Eyewitness book – Viking At Home
100 Viking Facts - The Vikings at Home book
Usborne Who Were the Vikings? –What were the Viking houses like? book

Weblinks

Quiz on longhouses from bbc.co.uk
The building and interior of a Viking longhouse from bbc.co.uk
Interior of a Viking longhouse from bbc.co.uk