A job for everyone!

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.

English

To discuss writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, in this case diary entries.
To go into role as if they were Vikings, explain reasoning and listen to others.

Computing

Select, use and combine a variety of software on a range of digital devices.

Lesson Planning

Explore Viking jobs and record everyday events with photography and a diary.

Teaching Outcomes:

To understand the different roles for Viking family members.
To write in the style a diary entry to explain a day in the life of a Viking child.

Children can:

Show empathy with Viking men, women and children.
Compare own lives with those of people in other times.
Write in the style of a diary and use digital imagery.

Planning

Provided Resources

Day in the life of Gudrun
Viking jobs
A day in the life of a Viking child
Diary entry resources
Simple Viking costume images

You Will Need

DK Eyewitness book – Viking p.30-31 Women and Children, p.42-43 In the workshop
100 Viking Facts book- p. 22-23 Women and Children, p. 28-29 Skilled craftworkers

Weblinks

Life for Viking children from ancientpages.com
Viking homelife from danishnet.com
Viking family life from bbc.co.uk
Vikings everyday life from educationquizzes.com