The boys in class 2 have been learning to use a range of sources to find information. Our mission this week was to find out more information about Viking Longships.

Cameron already knows some sources that he uses to find out more information about The Vikings.

‘I use the teachers, books, pictures and Google’. Cameron

This week we used the BBC Primary History website and were all able to access this independently. We were able to navigate the Viking Longship page to help us complete our question sheet.

Here is some of the information that we discovered:

• Vikings uses Longships for war and raiding as they were fast and could be used to sail in deep and shallow waters.
• Vikings used smaller, slower boats for fishing.
• The sail was made out of woven wool.
• The Vikings used the sun, stars and landmarks to help find their way.

We are going to use our notes on Viking Longships to help us create information leaflets for P4G, who will soon be learning about the Vikings.

Our future missions will be to select from a variety of sources to help us to find out more about information about The Vikings! Some of us believe that the information we found out is definitely true because we found it online. We will also be investigating the extent to which different information sources can be trusted.

We have been very busy making Longship models and creating a map to show the routes travelled by the Vikings when they made their way to Scotland.  Take a look at our work so far.