Third graders "travel" from Europe to North America as Columbus did. They organize the information into chronoglogical order.

Fifth graders complete a unit on early explorers. They develop a timeline, sing a Viking song, watch a video, compile a checklist of supplies needed for an expedition, participate in a scavenger hunt, write a letter from Christopher...

In this Vikings worksheet, students read a passage on the Vikings, answer short answer questions, draw, and research the internet. Students complete 4 activities.

Students discover the meaning of a Norse runic message as they study a Vikings unit. In this Norse alphabet lesson, students decode a runic message as a part of a study about Vikings. Students earn the letters to decode the message as an...

Students listen to a broadcast with two stories on a radio that deals with Viking legends: The Building of the Wall and a creation story similar to Genesis. They discuss each story, write a short scene from one of the stories and then...

Students search interactive sites to discover the history of exploration. They inspect an explorers' timeline and read about them. They participate in a Viking quest game and a multimedia recreation of Marco Polo's explorations.

High schoolers engage in a lesson plan that is concerned with the "Vikings Of America" and conduct research using a variety of resources. They view the video to create the context for the lesson plan. Students use the video as an...

Archeologists discovered a sunstone used by Vikings to navigate the seas. This article explains what a sunstone is and how it works.

An essay about what happened to the Norsemen and the vikings from the late 700's-1000's.

Created for the high school student who is taking classes in European history.

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