Ideas for Sharing - How Your Group Can Get the Most from an Artefact Investigation Kit

IDEAS FOR SHARING - HOW YOUR GROUP CAN GET THE MOST FROM AN ARTEFACT INVESTIGATION KIT

The artefact investigation kits can be used in a number of cross-curricular ways for different age groups. We would encourage the artefacts and the boxes to be shared across the whole school. Here are some suggestions for all age groups:

· P.1 – could draw their own piece of Viking jewellery after looking at the amber necklace and the brooch (Expressive Arts)

· P.2 - could use the artefacts to recreate life in a Viking village and compare it to their own life (Social Studies)

· P.3 - could explore the materials which the Vikings used, as represented by the artefacts, and where each material came from and what it was used for. Do we use the same objects today and are they similar? Which material works better; ours or the Vikings’? (Science, Materials)

· P.4 – could explore the tools in the box (the whetstone and spindle whorl, the ship rivets) and use this as a starting point to investigate the technologies which the Vikings used to build, make their clothes and prepare food (Technologies)

· P.5 - could explore Viking language and investigate Viking runes. Can they write a letter to each other using runes and how might Vikings have sounded speaking to each other? (Languages)

· P.6 - Using the mystery object exercise, the class could split into groups and each decide how the object was used before presenting their conclusions to the rest of the class – can the class come to a consensus? (English and Literacy)

· P.7 - Could try to reconstruct some of the artefacts from the fragments, using measurements of the fragments to predict what size they would have been whole (Numeracy)

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