You can learn more about Viking Longships if you watch this slideshow.
Click HERE to learn about what the Vikings wore.
This activity is on the Gridgame website.
There is lots of interesting information on this link,
however the videos don’t work
as we are outside the United Kingdom.
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Why not try Viking Yourself – Viking Name Generator
It’s FUN.
When Seán tried it his Viking name was Seán the Good.
We think this describes our friend Seán perfectly.
Jack’s Viking name was Jack the Red. (His hair is brown!).
Leon’s was Leon of Ballor River and Nadine’s was Nadine Swordly.
Please supervise your children online.
Click HERE for a Historical Cookbook
from the CookIt website.
For example you can see what the Vikings,
the Victorians and our GREAT grandparents liked to eat.
Click HERE and you can design a menu for a Viking
or a family during World War 2 who were living on rations.
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This game shows how archaeologists work.
We like this game and would recommend it.
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Review: We enjoyed this game but find it gets a bit repetitive after a few plays.
We prefer BBC’s Viking Quest. Click HERE if you would like to go to Viking Quest.
Click HERE to play the Viking Training Game
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Review: We liked the Viking Training Game and we learned some things we didn’t know before about Viking weapons. However we prefer BBC’s Viking Quest – Click HERE to go to Viking Quest.
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Evidence of Vikings in the area
1. The Viking settlers used coins that were Anglo Saxon from abroad
until 997AD when they opened their own mint in Dublin.
An Anglo Saxon coin of the time before the mint was open
was found at Rathdown.
Experts say that this means there were Viking settlers at Rathdown
or that Vikings in the area traded with the Irish at Rathdown.
2. Other signs of Vikings in the area include
that the road connecting Bray and Greystones, is called Windgates.
Windgates comes from the Viking word ‘gata’ which means ‘road’
3. There is a famous Irish history book written in the 17th century.
It is called ‘The Annals of the Four Masters’
In this book there is an account of the battle at Delgany in 1021
in which the King of Leinster beat Sitric,
the king of the Vikings from Dublin.
The book says that after the battle,
the Irish that had won killed any Vikings that were left.
There was a big battle in Bray too.
It was at a place called Sunnybank now
When the Vikings and the Irish fought there
it was called the ‘Bloody bank’.
Sunnybank in Bray is on the Dublin Road
near Ravenswell School, Amphibian King and Lidl.
Click HERE to open up an interactive game
about the Vikings from BBC History.
Review: This is our favourite online activity in History. We haven’t got tired of it yet. We think we learned a good deal by playing this about the Vikings themselves and about making decisions and their consequences. Keep playing this game and you will learn from your mistakes. Try for a high score. Then try for a really low score. We think you will have fun.
Click on this LINK to see the inside of a Viking house.
Send the things that don’t belong down the Time Tunnel
and guess what times they things belong to.
This activity comes from a selection of other history games on the BBC website
Click on this link to see a short video about the Vikings (2m 47)
Click HERE for a Viking Game on GridClub.com.
Review: You have to pay to join usually, but this game seems to be free to start. Play it a couple of times and you will get better at it. You will learn some interesting facts about Vikings. We liked the graphics A LOT.
Click HERE for Interactive Map showing
Viking placenames from the British Museum.
Click on the link below to read
All about the Vikings from the Dorling Kindersley website
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Review: We learnt a lot of useful information about the Vikings from this website from Snaith Primary School in East Yorkshire.
It is written for seven and eight year olds and we found it interesting. We found it easy to read and we liked the graphics a lot.
Click HERE to see.
Please note all images and multimedia on this link are Copyright Thinking Things 2016.
Click HERE to play an interactive game
about day to day life in Viking times.
Review: I played this game and I learned some interesting facts about Vikings.
The videos on the game don’t work and you can’t see the transcripts
because it is a BBC site and the videos would only work in the UK.
But the game was fun and I liked the humour and the graphics.
Written by Seán
Click HERE for an activity where you will learn about Viking
longhouses,
longships
and board games
from the BBC Scotland website. You will need Flash player.