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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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