Fashion week - Viking style!

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Invaders and Settlers: Vikings Viking Way of Life

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Objectives

History

Understand how knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.
Ask historically valid questions and use them to make connections, analyse trends and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives.

Design and Technology

Select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks accurately.
Select from and use a wider range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their functional properties and aesthetic qualities.

Lesson Planning

Investigate the clothes worn by the Vikings and then design and make a pouch of leather, hessian or flax.

Teaching Outcomes:

To understand the different roles for family members and appreciate how these roles impacted on the lives of Viking people.
To follow a set of instructions to make a Viking pouch/purse and critique, evaluate ideas and the work of others.

Children can:

Investigate materials used for Vikings clothes.
Make a Viking pouch following a set of instructions.
Evaluate the design and making techniques that have been used.

Planning

Provided Resources

Pouch instructions
Planning and evaluation
Simple Viking costume resource

You Will Need

DK Eyewitness book – Viking p. 30-31 Women and Children, p. 44-45 Spinning and Weaving, p. 46-49 Jewellery and Brooches
100 Viking Facts book- p. 24-25 Clothes and Jewellery

Weblinks

What did the Vikings wear? from bbc.co.uk
Viking clothing from wn.com
What Vikings wear from topicpod.com