Welcome to Saxons and Vikings Resources to help develop your topic.
As well as the resource links on this page below a visit to Clitheroe Castle can help bring your topic to life.
How to use this page: Click on a topic area from the tabs on the left to reveal links and suggestions for pre and post visit learning.
Here are our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Viking Myths and Beliefs.
Each web link has been checked and the content coded against the key above. You will find lesson ideas, games, general information and creative ideas to help you develop your Vikings topic.
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Selection of Norse myths
Ask the children if they recognise any of the Norse Gods? Discuss how Thor is a comic book character. Children could develop their own comic book character based on a Norse God. They could produce their own comic strip.
Information about Viking Gods in Norse myths
Information on Norse myths
Viking beliefs with a video introducing the Gods
Use the BBC school radio to learn Viking songs and listen to myths
Here are our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Saxons – Beowulf.
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Overview of the story and origins of the poem
A modern English Beowulf translation
Select passages of the text and discuss the meaning of the language used. How does the language used in the translation compare with language used today?
Here are our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Saxon Life.
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Find out about Saxon life using this helmet and the hoard found at Sutton Hoo
Look at recipes from the Saxons and Vikings
Select a recipe to make. How could you add a modern twist to make it more desirable for consumers today?
Use this guide to find out about how Anglo Saxon Britain was ruled
Use this game to understand crime and punishment during Saxon times
Here are our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Viking Life.
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A guide about Viking warriors
Information about Saxon priests hiding a bell from the Vikings
What treasure would you hide in a raid? Why is it important? Where would you hide it? If someone found it 500 years later, what do you think it would say about you? Discuss and produce some creative writing about your treasure. You could be a reporter from the future, describing the discovery of hidden treasure.
Information and video about Viking traders
Solve measure problems in maths. Use balancing scales to work out the weight of objects. To challenge pupils you could set limitations on the size or quantity of weights available to use. Children would have to use objects they had weighed to find out the weight of other objects.
Use the Viking burial to find out about Viking men and women
Here are our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Anglo Saxons and Viking Settlements.
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A table with Anglo Saxon place names and their meanings
See if you can find any of these places on a map?
Viking place names
See if you can find any of these places on a map?
Talk for learning activity matching Anglo-Saxon, Viking and ancient British place names
Here are our recommendations for pre and post learning resources for the topic of Saxons and Vikings – Conflict.
Each web link has been checked and the content coded against the key above. You will find lesson ideas, games, general information and creative ideas to help you develop your Saxons and Vikings topic.
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A guide about Alfred the Great
A guide about Alfred's battle with the Vikings
Story of Alfred and the cakes
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