Collection of fun factsheets and worksheets to complement teaching Vikings for KS1 and KS2 History. Various aspects of Viking life are covered in the resources and the collection is aimed to cater for all abilities.

This is the sixth in a series of lessons on Vikings. This sixth lesson explores the first major invasion of England, the Lindisfarne monastery. It also looks at other Viking raids over the 8th-10th centuries up to the creation of the Danelaw. The main activity focuses on the written historical accounts of these Viking attacks and raids including Alcuin and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. Included are starter activities and revision activities as well as two worksheet activities, one for lower ability students and one for higher ability students. The culminating task is a paragraph response. A very visual presentation that can be used alongside other resources easily. Includes worksheets for activities inside the PowerPoint. Included: 1 PowerPoint presentation with 28 slides 2 PDF worksheets . Australian Curriculum - Stage 4 - Depth Study 4: The Western and Islamic World - Topic 4a: The Vikings (c. AD 790 – c. 1066) Syllabus dot points covered Viking conquests and relationships with subject peoples, including the perspectives of monks, changes in the way of life of the English, and the Norman invasion (ACDSEH048) explain and assess the impact of the Vikings on subject peoples in England and northern Europe, including the Danelaw discuss the significance of the Norwegian (Viking) invasions of England outline what sources reveal about different perspectives on the Vikings, for example, those of English monks The role of a significant individual in the expansion of Viking settlement and influence (ACDSEH049) discuss how the Vikings have influenced the world today . . . Historical skills covered HT4-5 --> identifies the meaning, purpose and context of historical sources HT4-7 --> identifies and describes different contexts, perspectives and interpretations of the past HT4-9 --> uses a range of historical terms and concepts when communicating an understanding of the past . . . If you have any questions about this product or using this product, we are continuously seeking to improve the quality of our materials. Every effort has been made to make this unit error-free. Should you find any errors, please contact us via email at mrmsmohistory@gmail.com and we will ensure that you receive a corrected copy. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. . . . Keywords: Vikings, history, Stage 4, Australian Curriculum, Middle Ages, Scandinavia, Year 7, Year 8, PowerPoint, Anglo-Saxon, invasion, Lindisfarne, Christianity, monks, kings, Danelaw, England, longships, raids, attack, plunder, loot, settlement, colony, Norse, language, influence, Alcuin, annals, manuscript, Simeon, historical sources, analysis, context, bias, perspective.

The Viking Age Timeline lesson has a brief description of major events in the Viking age, a worksheet and an activity. Pages: 5 (including 2 answer sheets) Contents: Information Page Which Was First Questions Complete the Timeline Activity All photos, illustrations and text are original by the author. This is part of a complete unit on Vikings.

The Viking Runes lesson covers the runic alphabet, uses of runes, runestones and rune casting. It includes a multiple choice worksheet, a de-code the runestone activity and a cryptic Viking message activity. Aimed at KS2 Y4-6 Pages: 7 (including 2 answer sheets) Contents: Information Page De-code the Runestone Activity Cryptic Viking Message Activity Rune Master Art Activity Multiple Choice Worksheets Answer sheets All photos, illustrations and text are original by the author. This is part of a complete unit on Vikings.

This KS2 history resource contains a full 10-lesson unit covering Viking and Anglo-Saxon life, raids, beliefs, and settlement in Britain. Suitable for Year 3 to Year 6, the unit includes lesson plans, activities, and PowerPoints designed to support pupils in understanding key historical events and daily life during this period. Pupils will learn about Viking longships, Norse gods, the raid on Lindisfarne, Anglo-Saxon villages, and the reasons behind Viking migration and settlement. Lessons include opportunities for role play, poetry, drawing, and group discussion. What’s included: ✔ 10 detailed lesson plans ✔ PowerPoint presentations for each lesson ✔ Differentiated worksheets and activity templates ✔ Vocabulary word banks and sentence starters ✔ Printable resources for games, quizzes, and poetry ✔ Links to child-friendly videos and websites Lesson overview / structure: ★ Lesson 1 – Who Were the Vikings? Fact-finding carousel on Viking origins, homes, food, and clothing. Includes a starter discussion and plenary quiz. ★ Lesson 2 – Viking Longships Children label and design longships, learning about keels, sails, and shields. Includes video links and drawing activity. ★ Lesson 3 – Viking Traders and Settlers Interactive trading game to understand Viking motivations for settling in England. Includes role cards and score sheets. ★ Lessons 4–5 – Lindisfarne Raid Poetry Children write poems from both Viking and monk perspectives. Includes planning templates and vocabulary support. ★ Lessons 6–7 – Anglo-Saxon Daily Life Research-based lessons with presentations or posters on Anglo-Saxon homes, jobs, food, and beliefs. ★ Lesson 8 – Viking Daily Life Research Online research task with structured fact sheets and a carousel fact swap activity. ★ Lesson 9 – Viking Gods Art and writing task focused on Odin, Thor, Freyja, and Loki. Includes fact files and drawing templates. ★ Lesson 10 – Viking Values Discussion Open-ended discussion lesson using historical thinking questions. Includes group work and whole-class debate. Why it’s useful: ✔ Fully differentiated activities for all abilities ✔ Includes creative tasks (poetry, drawing, role play) ✔ Supports historical enquiry and critical thinking ✔ Covers both Vikings and Anglo-Saxons in one unit ✔ Includes links to videos and safe research websites Suggested use cases: ✔ KS2 history topic on Vikings and Anglo-Saxons ✔ Year 3–6 classroom teaching ✔ Whole-class discussion and group work ✔ Creative writing and cross-curricular literacy ✔ End-of-topic assessment or display work Search tags: KS2 history | Vikings and Anglo-Saxons | Viking longships | Lindisfarne raid | Norse gods KS2 | Anglo-Saxon village life | Year 5 history unit | Viking poetry | outstanding Viking lesson | KS2 trading game | Viking settlement lesson | Anglo-Saxon research task | Viking gods drawing activity | KS2 history planning

Overview of the Unit: Lesson 1: Engage Through Drama Kick off the unit with playscripts and hot seating to spark interest and immerse pupils in the Viking topic. Lessons 2–4: Master Relative and Embedded Clauses Build technical skills by focusing on relative clauses and embedded clauses using dashes. Scaffolded tasks include identifying, practicing, and applying these skills to descriptive paragraphs about the Vikings. Lesson 5: Expanded Noun Phrases and Prepositional Phrases Teach pupils to add detail and precision to their writing by crafting vivid sentences about Viking roles and lifestyle. Lesson 6: Ad Same Ad Sentence Structure Introduce Allan Peat’s Ad Same Ad sentences to help students create impactful, descriptive sentences. Lesson 7: Describing Viking Clothing Apply learned skills to describe Viking clothing and settlements, blending expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases, and Ad Same Ad sentences. Lessons 8–10: Using Formal Language Guide students to write formally, using generalizers and precise vocabulary, while practicing formal sentence construction. Lesson 9: Plan the Report Pupils organize their ideas under clear subheadings, ensuring all features—relative clauses, formal language, expanded phrases—are included. Lessons 10–12: Writing the Non-Chronological Report Over three lessons, pupils draft their reports, working to different ability levels with sentence starters, scaffolds, and modeled examples. Lesson 13: Publish with Style Pupils polish their work, adding illustrations and neat formatting to create a final report ready for display or assessment. Key Features: Fully differentiated tasks to support lower ability, age-related, and greater depth learners. Focus on grammar skills: relative clauses, embedded clauses, expanded noun phrases, and formal language. Engaging activities including hot seating, sentence crafting, and publishing with illustrations. Scaffolds, WAGOLLs, and success criteria provided for every step. Perfect for cross-curricular links with history or thematic units on the Vikings. Why Teachers Love It: Saves time with ready-to-teach lesson plans and resources. Encourages creativity alongside rigorous grammar skills. Supports writing progression with clear success criteria and scaffolded tasks. Engages learners with a high-interest topic and varied teaching methods. What’s Included: 13 detailed lesson plans with objectives, activities, and differentiation. WAGOLL examples for each skill. Printable planning templates, worksheets, and success criteria. Editable resources for tailoring to your class.

This unit is designed for year 5 but could be adapted to fit into other year groups. The unit focuses on the Vikings as raiders – paying particular attention to their methods of travel and way of life. Throughout this unit, children will spend time learning about raiding and settlement. They will also learn how to carry out different types of historical research; develop their understanding of bias/historical interpretation. It develops the following skills and knowledge from the National Curriculum: To know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; achievements and follies of mankind Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses. Understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed. Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short- and long-term timescales. Lesson 1: A Chronology lesson which uses photographic evidence to give the children a deeper understanding of how and why different periods/peoples in time were so different. Children make links between different time periods as they start to use the language of chronology. Lesson 2: A practical activity which gives the children a deeper understanding of the ‘Viking Raids’ on Britain. Lesson 3: Children look more closely at the Viking Raid on Lindisfarne and the different Historical interpretations of the raid. Lesson 4/5: A research activity where the children are given the opportunity to discover more about the Vikings – and whether they were just bloodthirsty raiders. Lesson 6/7: Children present their findings (to their own questions) on the Vikings through multimedia presentations. Within this unit plan there are hyperlinks to other resources associated with the plan.

Four sheets for this lesson Part of bundle - see my shop: 10 sets of SEN worksheets on The End of the Roman Era, Chiefs & Kings, Kingdoms, Farming, Gods & Goddesses, Lindisfarne, The Heptarchy, Sutton Hoo, Danelaw & Old English. £5.50 for the bundle - huge saving on buying sheets individually. Simple closed tasks guarantee success Sheet 1: identify UK and Viking-origin countries on maps Sheet 2 answer questions about a simple map showing English & Viking lands Sheet 3 use picture and topic words provided to write about a battle Sheet 4 use pictures of Viking artefacts to decorate a blank shield Dyslexia-friendly Sassoon font Dyslexia-friendly spacing and font size Low cognitive load Topic vocabulary chosen for decodability Completed worksheet photos included as guidance for TA and pupil Careful selection of images to avoid anachronistic messages

Differentiated set of printable and editable geography worksheets on Viking land use aimed at KS2. Helps to identify the features of land that attracted Vikings to invade other countries. Following input during the lesson, children use a picture source to answer questions about a settlement. Includes identifying physical and human features.

This lesson describes types of viking weapons and armour. It includes a design-your-own-shield activity and a reading response worksheet. Includes a bonus differentiated maths activity (fractions) and maths puzzles. Aimed at KS2 Y4-6 Pages: 13 (including answer sheets) Contents: Information Pages Design Your Own Shield Activity Reading Response Maths Fractions Activities (differentiated) Maths Puzzles (differentiated) Answer Sheets All photos, illustrations and text are original by the author. This is part of a complete unit on Vikings.

PowerPoint and worksheets for Vikings introductory lesson. Great for the first lesson of Vikings for years 6 or 7.

The two word mats/ posters could be used as a probable lesson starter. Each illustration has the Old Norse equivalent and, in some cases, the English translation of the Old Norse word. A worksheet [English Words from Viking Words] allows students find out the Old Norse word from the current English one. Dictionaries can be used here where Old Norse origins are shown. The worksheet could also be used as investigative resource for use with the Internet. The worksheet includes an accompanying answer sheet - watch for this when you PRINT IT OUT! To finish the lesson, there are a set of matching Old Norse words to picture cards. There is also a blank set for pupils to fill in from their research. Can the students find additional words derived from Old Norse ones to make extra cards? A P Pullan twpofapp@gmail.com https://theweepencil.wordpress.com/

The Vikings Display board pack. Contains everything you need to decorate your display board for this popular topic. 44 pages in .pdf format (the display posters are NOT editable but do contact me if you want something adding or changing). Included in the resource: The Vikings header. A4, but can be printed as A3 to make it bigger, just adjust the settings on the printing page. 7 Vikings posters with short descriptions (Viking warrior, merchant, Viking woman, longhouse, long boat, arms and armour, weaving). A4 Vikings photos - a collection of 11 A4 real life photos to add to the display. Vikings timeline - 10 A4 posters featuring the main events of the Viking era. Can be printed in a smaller format by choosing the "Multiple" option on the printing page. Vikings KWL chart - A4 (for display or as an individual activity) Vikings keywords - 2 keywords with borders per page of A4. An extra border provided if you want to write your own. Vikings word mat with main keywords for the topic. Save yourself hours of work by purchasing the ready made display, just print, laminate for durability and enjoy teaching the topic!

This is the fourth in a series of lessons on Vikings. This fourth lesson explores the main features of Norse Mythology, answering questions like: Who are the main norse gods and goddesses? What did the Vikings believe in? How did they worship? What role did religion play in everyday Viking life? Included are starter activities and revision activities as well as two worksheet activities. The culminating task is a paragraph response. A very visual presentation that can be used alongside other resources easily. Includes worksheets for activities inside the PowerPoint. Included: 1 PowerPoint presentation with over 30 slides 2 PDF worksheets to match activities . Australian Curriculum - Stage 4 - Depth Study 4: The Western and Islamic World - Topic 4a: The Vikings (c. AD 790 – c. 1066) Syllabus dot points covered The way of life in Viking society (social, cultural, economic and political features) and the roles and relationships of different groups in society (ACDSEH007) -using a range of sources, eg the Viking sagas, outline key social, cultural, economic and political features of Viking society . Historical skills covered HT4-3 --> describes and assesses the motives and actions of past individuals and groups in the context of past societies HT4-8 --> locates, selects and organises information from sources to develop an historical inquiry HT4-9 --> uses a range of historical terms and concepts when communicating an understanding of the past . If you have any questions about this product or using this product, we are continuously seeking to improve the quality of our materials. Every effort has been made to make this unit error-free. Should you find any errors, please contact us via email at mrmsmohistory@gmail.com and we will ensure that you receive a corrected copy. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. . Keywords: Vikings, history, Stage 4, Australian Curriculum, Middle Ages, Scandinavia, Year 7, Year 8, PowerPoint, Yggdrasil, Valhalla, Hel, realms, sacrifice, gods, goddesses, deities, religion, Norse, mythology, Christainity, Thor, Odin, Freyja, Freyr, Frigg, Heimdall, Tyr, Loki, Valkyries, Muspelheim, Niflheim, Asgard, Vanaheim, Ragnarok, creation story.

This is the third in a series of lessons on Vikings. This third lesson is a brief exploration of the roles and responsibilities of the Viking men, women and children. The lesson starts with some retrieval practice from the previous lessons, which is a great way to gauge current levels of understanding and encourage class discussions. Each of the daily activities of men, women and children is then described in a visual and easy to understand format. Subsequent questions encourage discussions about the similarities and differences between Viking men and women. At the end, there is a couple of slides on runestones and there is a fun activity on runes that includes translating, deciphering and also a page for the students to create their own rune message. A very visual presentation that can be used alongside other resources easily. This lesson is aimed at a middle ability class. Includes worksheets for activities inside the PowerPoint. Included: -1 PowerPoint presentation with 12 slides -1 PDF worksheet with 3 pages of rune activities . . . Australian Curriculum - Stage 4 - Depth Study 4: The Western and Islamic World - Topic 4a: The Vikings (c. AD 790 – c. 1066) Syllabus dot points covered The way of life in Viking society (social, cultural, economic and political features) and the roles and relationships of different groups in society (ACDSEH007) describe the everyday life of men, women and children in Viking society . Historical skills covered HT4-5 --> identifies the meaning, purpose and context of historical sources HT4-9 --> uses a range of historical terms and concepts when communicating an understanding of the past . . . If you have any questions about this product or using this product, we are continuously seeking to improve the quality of our materials. Every effort has been made to make this unit error-free. Should you find any errors, please contact us via email at mrmsmohistory@gmail.com and we will ensure that you receive a corrected copy. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. . . . Keywords: Vikings, history, Stage 4, Australian Curriculum, Middle Ages, Scandinavia, Year 7, Year 8, PowerPoint, Karl, Jarl, Thrall, men, women, children, runes, runestone, language, norse, saga, poem, farming, raiding.

This printable PDF includes a Viking expansion map and a brief description of events in 12 different areas where Vikings travelled. It includes differentiated fill-in-the-blanks activities and differentiated word searches. (Levels are indicated by an A or B on each page) Pages: 12 (Including two answer sheets) Contents: Information Pages (Two Differentiated versions) Expansion Map Fill in the Blanks (Two Differentiated versions) Word Search (Two Differentiated versions) Answer Sheets

This is 9 days worth of planning based on the children writing a Viking Saga based on a character called Biorn from the short clip from the Literacy Shed website. It includes reference to the new National Curriculum and has grammar starters, differentiated success criteria and writing opportunities. It was planned for Year 4 focusing mainly on the Band 4 Learning objectives. Have also included some of the resources that I have made for these lessons. Some of the images have been taken from google and links are made to other websites on the plan that we used. I hope it is useful. My classed wrote some great Viking Sagas

Miscellaneous collection of viking resources for which I claim no credit.

What are artefacts?. Photographs of artefacts. What purpose they served. Quite a lot of information. Please edit as you see fit. Feedback appreciated

This is a list of websites passed onto me by a colleague. Not sure of author or where they were downloaded from (definately from web). They are excellent

Planning for Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. Full term. UKS2. Please leave feedback, it's only polite :)