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NASA

Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Viking Mission to Mars

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides thorough background information on the Viking Missions and links to detailed data and images.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive site explores Viking history. It shares who the Vikings were, their archaeology, and literature. Students can use their mouse to travel Viking routes and learn about places the Vikings went. Also, students can listen to...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Viking Ship Design Challenge

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this design challenge, students learn about the Vikings from an engineering point-of-view. While investigating the history and anatomy of Viking ships, they learn how engineering solutions are shaped by the surrounding environment and...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Vikings: How Do Plants Grow?

For Students K - 1st
Olaf the viking is learning about the life cycle of plants. Help him tend to his garden as he learns.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning:the Middle Ages:the Beginning and an End:the Norman Invasion

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from a Middle Ages Literature unit focuses on the Norman Invasion of 1066 and the impact it had on the English language. It discusses the events leading up to the changes from the Anglo-Saxon Old English to Middle English...
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BBC

Bbc: Viking Colonists: Joining the Community

For Students 9th - 10th
An article that describes the life of the Vikings in England during the 10th century C.E. One of the more interesting aspects is when Vikings settled down and became farmers.
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Other

Hurstwic: Vikings

For Students 9th - 10th
An essay about what happened to the Norsemen and the vikings from the late 700's-1000's.
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Archaeological Institute of America

The Fate of Greenland's Vikings

For Students 9th - 10th
An article which describe the settlement of the Vikings in Greenland and examines possible reasons for their disappearance.
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Mariners' Museum and Park

Mariners' Museum: The Ages of Exploration: Ancient

For Students 4th - 8th
This Ancient Exploration page presents marine technological innovations, types of ships, and information about Alexander the Great. It covers the period of time from 5000 BCE to 476 CE. Each item links to a page of additional information...
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Other

Rosala Viking Centre: Viking History

For Students 3rd - 8th
This Rosala Viking Centre website offers an excellent, but brief, history and mythology of the Vikings. The site includes photos, and images that can be clicked to enlarge them.
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BBC

Bbc: History: Viking Quest

For Students 9th - 10th
This BBC history game, Viking Quest, takes you back to AD 793. Flash plugin required.As you make choices, you learn about the culture of the Vikings, as well as about the dangers and rewards of being a Viking raider. (Flash required.)...
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Other

Viking Invasion of Ireland

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief history of the Viking invasions of Ireland, beginning from the year 795.
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Other

Viking Invasion of Ireland

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief history of the Viking invasions of Ireland, beginning from the year 795.
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BBC

Bbc: Bitesize History: How Did the Vikings Fight?

For Students 2nd - 6th
Take a look at Viking warriors and learn how they fought.
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English Worksheets Land

English Worksheets Land: Meet the Vikings [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Practice capitalization rules by underlining the words that need to be capitalized and matching them to the rules that apply.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Vikings

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia, a free open-source encyclopedia, offers a detailed article on Vikings. Content includes Viking etymology.
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BBC

Bbc: History: Vikings

For Students 9th - 10th
Who doesn't love to learn about Vikings? Learn the truth about their warrior side as well as their need to farm and settle. Information on their religion, food, weapons, warfare, money, and family life. For fun, see if Viking blood flows...
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Mariners' Museum and Park

Mariners' Museum: Education: Viking Ships

For Students 9th - 10th
The Mariners' Museum provides a history of Viking ships, explorers and their discoveries.
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Other

Minnesota Vikings Official Website

For Students 9th - 10th
This Vikings site provides readers with official information from the NFL team.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The First Europeans

For Students 9th - 10th
The first Europeans to arrive in North America -- at least the first for whom there is solid evidence -- were Norse, traveling west from Greenland, where Erik the Red had founded a settlement around the year 985. In 1001 his son Leif is...
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Other

Forgotten Ground Regained: Viking Verse

For Students 9th - 10th
This site shares poems written in the language and style of the Vikings. Translations and links to other poems that relate to the Viking theme and verse formats are also included on this site.
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Other

Arild Hauge's Runes: About the Runes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Arild Hauge's Runes provides an easy-to-read text about the runes and their meaning. Illustrations of rune artifacts. Although the author is from Denmark, home of the Vikings, please be aware that we could not ascertain...
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Scholastic

Scholastic History Mystery: Vikings: L'anse Aux Meadows

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students try to guess the mystery subject Carlotta Facts, the History Mystery Museum's professor, is studying. They read the clues, do some online and offline research, and then attempt to identify the game's mystery place, the Vikings'...
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Ireland Information

Histroy the Middle Ages (Ireland)

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief history of Ireland from 800 to approximately 1500. Most of the article focuses on invasions by the Vikings and the Normans, and the impact of each.

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