This enquiry challenges traditional ideas and misconceptions about the Vikings.
It encourages your students to look beyond the impression we often get of the Vikings as ‘bloodthirsty raiders’.
Students first consider how traditional accounts, like a Ladybird book, present the Vikings.
They go on to examine a range of evidence that helps them to gain a more nuanced understanding of the Vikings who arrived in England in the early medieval period.
They finish off by responding to the enquiry question, employing a range of new subject-specific vocabulary to help them.
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