Teacher’s Notes
- THE LAST VIKING – teachers’ notes (pdf)
- THE LAST VIKING RETURNS – teachers’ notes with ACARA hyperlinks (pdf)
Each set of teachers’ notes includes the handouts available further below.
Videos
Book trailers
Time-lapses
Painting a page from The Last Viking Returns.
Painting the cover from The Last Viking Returns.
Hand-outs for The Last Viking
You are welcome to print these hand-outs for educational, non-commercial use in your home, school or library.
Click an image to open it.
rune puzzles 1 solution – click to download (pdf, 425KB)
rune puzzle 2 solution – click to download (pdf, 385KB)
Useful websites
The British Museum – Vikings, Life and Legend – this fantastic exhibition was shown at the museum earlier in 2014, and you can still see exhibited items on the website. There are classroom resources available in the ‘Schools‘ section.
UK National Maritime Museum- Viking classroom resources – Great selection of handouts. on everything from longships and trade routes to Viking dress and clothing dyes. Colouring-in sheets too. Very handy.
Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, Denmark – To read the Teacher’s Guide, click on ‘Education’ up the top, then ‘To The Teacher’ on the left.
The website features many printable activities related to navigation, ships, and Norse life in general- but the recommended age for most activities is 10 years and up.
Norse Proverbs – A list of sayings that ancient Vikings may have used. Boys in particular will love these. There’s quite a few grisly ones.
Papercraft Viking Longship – Make your own longship from paper. Download the pdf, print out onto card, cut out the pieces, and assemble according to the instructions. Easy. Free resource from Canon, the camera and printer company.
Write your name in Runes – Translate words into runes automatically using this free resource. We adapted the translation on this website for the borders in The Last Viking.
When you type letters into the website, you will have to substitute every C for a K. It won’t let you translate C for some reason- who knows why.
The website automatically substitutes a few letters for other letters: K instead of Q, Y instead of J, U instead of V, and CS instead of X.
Plus it has an extra rune we didn’t use, which translates to the letter combination EL.
June 24, 2011 at 9:17 am
Totally brilliant guys! Best of viking bravery for a fabulous and triumphant launch!
June 24, 2011 at 11:31 am
Cheers Jo, thanks 🙂 It will be a wild and wooly night. I’m looking forward to seeing a sea of Viking helmets filling the Literature Centre
October 21, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Hello Lisa,
it was definitely not the intention of anyone associated with this blog to promote an offensive, racist site. We were unaware of the full nature of the metapedia site, having only visited the one page that listed the Norse proverbs. The link has now been deleted from this page. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
July 18, 2012 at 7:52 am
Congratulations on the shortlisting of your beautiful book! Thank you so much for the wonderful images and resource links. The pdfs on boats and voyages are fabulous!
Thank you!
July 18, 2012 at 12:06 pm
Cheers Catherine, glad the resources will be useful. Have a happy CBW 🙂
James
July 25, 2012 at 11:58 am
We are from Thirroul PS and have just read ‘The last Viking’. We thought it was awesome. We have cracked the code on the front cover and are now working on the others! Thanks Norman & James!
From Mrs McGuinness and 4B
July 25, 2012 at 3:22 pm
Hello Mrs McGuinness and 4B Viklings,
glad you enjoyed it and had fun with the rune messages. The message on the front cover comes from a very famous warrior called Nelson Mandela, who has the brave heart of a Viking.
Thanks for emailing,
James
August 6, 2012 at 7:57 am
Hi Norman,
2G really enjoyed The Last Viking and have a question. Is your last name a Viking name?
We are already looking forward to reading ‘The Lost Vikings!
All the best for Book Week,
from 2G
August 24, 2012 at 6:40 pm
Congratulations, I liker very much, interesting an fabulous resources and illustrations. Kind regards from Spain
August 25, 2012 at 10:41 am
No problems Monica, glad it’s been useful for you. James
May 8, 2013 at 8:18 pm
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Any help would be really appreciated!
May 9, 2013 at 8:03 pm
Hey there. Yes, we’re using WordPress.com; free, and no coding required!
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October 16, 2013 at 7:02 am
great video
November 19, 2013 at 8:10 pm
I’m going to be doing a series of 25 minute workshops for 7 year-olds, and I’ll definitely be using a couple of your sheets! Thank you so much for the wonderful resources!
November 20, 2013 at 9:23 am
No problems Mharie, thanks for stopping by. And thanks for the feedback.
September 12, 2015 at 3:31 am
Will be using a few items for the Viking Breakfast at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago! Thank you!
September 21, 2015 at 3:01 pm
Great to hear Stacey! Thanks for letting us know. Send us some photos if you have time, we’d love to see how it turns out.
May 5, 2016 at 8:40 pm
Hey James, I saw your presentation at my school yesterday. Wish u luck.
Jack
May 8, 2016 at 5:48 pm
Hi Jack! Thanks for stopping by the website to say hi. All the best
July 20, 2016 at 12:25 pm
wonderful inspiration for class to consider and ponder!
July 20, 2016 at 12:37 pm
Cheers, Malena! We hope they get a lot out of the book.
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