Lesson Plan

The Vikings Lesson Plan

Row a longship, write your name in runes, and follow Norse traders from Baghdad to Newfoundland.

This five-day Vikings unit gives you a ready-to-teach plan for Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8), for siblings or a mixed classroom. Littles meet the longship, spend a day on a Norse farm, make rune name stones and hear gentle myth stories. Middles map Norse trade and exploration routes, write a family saga and run a sail power lab. Bigs weigh primary sources like the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Ibn Fadlan, bust the horned helmet myth, test foil hulls with pennies, and hunt for Norse words in English. Raids are covered honestly and calmly, next to the farmers and traders who made up most of Norse life.

Perfect for homeschool families, multi-age classrooms, world history and explorer units.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for each of three levels
• Parts of a Longship label sheet with answer key
• Lab sheets: foil boat test, sail power lab, longship hull lab
• Sequence cards, cut-and-sort pages and a writing page for every level
• Word search, crossword or maze, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards, a book list and a certificate per level

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