Vikings

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Invaders and Settlers: Anglo-Saxons Invasions

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Objectives

History

Know and understand how people’s lives have shaped the nation, and how Britain has been influenced by the wider world.
Understand historical concepts such as cause and consequence.
Understand connections between local & regional history, and between short- and long-term timescales.

D&T

Explore an existing product.
Design a product based on design criteria.
Generate, develop and model their ideas.
Select from and use a wide range of materials, including textiles.

Lesson Planning

Learn more about the rule of the Anglo-Saxons, the information we gain from sources such as the Bayeux Tapestry and create your own embroidery.

Teaching Outcomes:

To use a range of sources to understand that Anglo-Saxon Britain was attacked by different invaders.
To design and create a piece of embroidery that tells a story.

Children will:

Explain that during the rule of the Anglo-Saxons other tribes invaded and eventually conquered Britain.
Appreciate how both The Battle of Maldon poem and the Bayeux Tapestry are sources of information.
Design and create an embroidery similar to the Bayeux Tapestry.

Planning

Provided Resources

Map of Danelaw
Poem
Bayeux Tapestry stitch guide

Unit Resources

You Will Need

Drawing pencils
Crayons
Sharpeners
Small squares of linen
Embroidery threads and needles

Weblinks

The Battle of Maldon poem from battleofmaldon.org.uk
The Bayeux Tapestry from bayeuxmuseum.com
Copy Bayeux Tapestry, Reading from bayeuxmuseum.com
BBC video clip about the Bayeux Tapestry from bbc.com