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Why and where did the Vikings trade?

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

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Objectives

History

  • Understand how knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.

PSHE

  • To understand how groups of people live and work together.

Lesson Planning

Learn why and where the Vikings traded; explore the trading routes and then take part in a Viking trade game.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To understand the impact that trade had on people’s lives then and now.
  • To understand relationships within communities.

Children can:

  • Understand Viking trade as an important part of the way of life.
  • Appreciate that this produce can and is used today and the principle of trading is still relevant today.
  • Generate ideas that will improve the outcomes of the trade to make it more successful.

You Will Need

  • DK Eyewitness book – Viking p. 26-27 Trading East and West
  • 100 Viking Facts book- p. 14-15 Traders, Explorers, Settlers
  • Scissors for each trader

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