Teach Your Kids About … Vikings

The Vikings were a fierce, strong, and very interesting people from the Northlands. Here are some great resources to help you teach your children more about them.

Lesson Plans

• Classroom Activity from The National Museum of Ireland– activity sheets for the Grade 3 to 6 level
• Primary History: The Vikings from BBC – lessons, activities and games about the vikings, including teacher resources.
• The Vikings from PBS.org – Lessons and resources.
• Viking Lesson Plans from CoreKnowledge – PDF lessons about the Vikings, mostly for 3rd grade. Includes Leif Ericsson, discovering how they are misunderstood, their contributions to history, sagas, and more.
• Vikings Co-op Lessons from HighHill Homeschool – what one group did week by week to teach their kids about vikings.
• Vikings Lesson Plan from Historica Canada– students view “Heritage Minute, Vikings” and then use criticial thinking skills to discuss how the Vikings and First Nations people are portrayed in the video.

Worksheets, Notebooks, and Lapbooks

• Viking Adventure Lapbook from Homeschool Share
• Viking Lapbook from Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus
• Me and the Vikings Venn Diagram by Heather Carlsen
• Viking Exploration of North America by Ami Alvis
• Viking Runes Worksheet by Mikal Staley
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be A Viking Explorer Questions by Tinker’s Thinkers – questions about the book with the same name.

Crafts & Activities

• In the Art Room:Viking Ship Collages from Cassie Stephens – a creative art project for students in grades 3 to 5 ish.
• Paper Dolls from Practical Pages – men and women paper dolls with period clothing. Scroll down to find the link to each.
• Tissue Box Viking Ship from Crayola
• Cardboard Viking Shield from Deceptively Educational

Other Resource

• Jorvik Viking Centre – an in-person Viking village in York, England. Online resources include the option for a virtual visit through Skype, and printables such as colouring pages, information sheets and other activities. Site has lots of detailed information about “who were the Vikings.”
• The Vikings Answer Lady – A comprehensive information website about the life and times of the Vikings
• Clothing the Viking Age – detailed information about the clothing for men and women
• How to make Viking Musical Instruments – how to make pipes, whistles, drums and horn bugle
• Viking Recipes

Videos

• Heritage Minutes: Vikings 
• Horrible Histories: Vicious Vikings
• Horrible Histories: Literally – a Viking Song. – a soft rock viking ballad
• The Vikings Who Were They BBC Documentary- The Discovery Channel– needs previewing first as it contains some battle scenes etc
• The Viking Sagas: BBC

Books

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