Vikings Exhibition activities workbook

Instruct students to write down notes and/or sketch and photograph the following the following artefacts guided by
the gallery/exhibition app and QR codes.
The Vikings as sailors
The Vikings were excellent ship builders and used their ships to sail across the sea and along rivers to trade, raid
and settle.
Find an object:

Decorated with a ship

In the shape of a ship

Used on a ship

Transported on a ship

Exhibition worksheet ideas adapted from:

The British Museum. (2014). The BP Exhibition Vikings life and legend Resource guide. Retrieved from
http://www.britishmuseum.org/learning/schools_and_teachers/resources/all_resources/vikings_life_and_legend_g
uide.aspx
Australian National Maritime Museum. (2015). Vikings! A spectacular exhibition of treasures from the Viking
world. Retrieved from http://www.anmm.gov.au/whatson/exhibitions/past/vikings

The Vikings as traders

The Vikings traded with many different people from around the world.
As well as trading Viking objects with distant places, Viking merchants also brought objects from other places
back home.

Find:

Something for weighing

Something to sell

Something to buy with

Something to pay with

The Vikings as rulers

Noble Viking families showed how wealthy and important they were by wearing beautiful jewellery or by having
expensive, decorated weapons.

Find:

Something to wear

Something for a horse to wear

Something to use at a feast

Something to play a game

*Hint: find a group of decorative objects. A great place to develop ideas for your assessment task!

The Vikings as warriors

At first, groups of individual warriors carried raids to get rich. Later, warriors fought as soldiers in an army. Viking
kings used their armies to invade other kingdoms.

Find something used to:

Protect your body

Fight your enemy

Protect your head

Show you are fierce

The Vikings as believers

The Vikings believed in many gods and goddesses. The Vikings believed that gods could change shape and turn
into animals. Later the Vikings began to follow the Christian faith.

Find:

A Norse god or goddess

A good luck charm

A animal or bird

A Christian cross