Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here.

Enactive learning - a Viking trading game to help children understand the full variety of Viking life and culture. They were so much more than the 'vicious Vikings' stereotype.

Aims are for children to:

• learn about the goods traded by the Vikings and the extent of their trading network across Europe and beyond
• appreciate enactively (kinaesthetically) the patterns and processes of Viking trade 
• understand where the Vikings fitted in chronologically.

Download the teachers' notes and resources. Instructions to pupils includes information about the goods each Viking group has to trade. 

Viking lessons

Vikings settle down
Vikings: Egils Saga
Vikings: who were they?
Viking Travel 

The Thing and Viking migration