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Viking Ship Dragonhead Rubbing Activity
To create a rubbing of your Viking ship design, use the template in our resource or draw your design directly onto a piece of paper. Once you have your design, use glue to trace over the lines and let it dry. This activity requires patience, but once the glue is dry, you can make as many rubbings as you'd like. Charcoal and crayons work well for this activity, but feel free to experiment with other art supplies such as pastels. Happy crafting!
5 best free online resources for teaching about Vikings
Quality teaching resources don’t need to break the bank. There are several great websites, videos and downloads you can use to supplement your unit and keep your students engaged. Here are five websites we recommend if you are teaching about the Viking Age.
6 Reasons Digital Teaching Tools Could Be Here To Stay
Online learning came a long way during this time. Teachers now have access to a multitude of digital resources. But now that in-class learning is back, will digital resources still prove useful?
Here are 6 reasons digital tools could be here to stay.
Free Interactive Task Cards
This free set of interactive task cards is an engaging way to teach middle school students about Ancient Egypt.
Simple Depth Perception Experiment
Try this really easy test to see how your perception is different when you only use one eye.
Terracotta Army Puzzle
After more than 2000 years, the terracotta army, built to guard Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang, was a bit like an enormous 3-D puzzle made up of fragments of 8,000 life-size clay figures. Archaeologists and restorers spent months, or even years, on each figure, finding the right places for all the pieces and sticking them back together.
Who were the Ancient Greeks?
The Ancient Greeks were people who lived in the area around the Greek Peninsula between 4,000 and 2,500 years ago. They spoke the same language and worshiped the same gods but they lived in independent city-states.
Vikings Bundle - What is the best order?
The Vikings Bundle includes twelve stand-alone resources that can be taught in any order, plus a review to wrap everything up. However, we can recommend a certain order of topics.
Ancient Athens
Athens was an ideal location for trade, so even though it was not a fertile area, Athens became a powerful city-state. Athens built a fleet of trading ships and imported all their grain from the Mediterranean, using trade to gain wealth and influence. By the 5th century B.C., Athenian coins were used all over the Mediterranean, and Athens was the head of a Greek alliance against Persia.
Our First Digital Escape Room
This digital escape room is an engaging way for students to review everything they've learned from our print and digital Viking resources. Students explore a professor’s office and use their knowledge about Vikings to unlock clues that can be used to open the door and escape the room.