2. Supplementary videos

Featured video: Lonship as food
As a piece of lateral thinking, why not imagine how to make a model longship using food. Children could present food like this at home, and then explain how a longship worked using two different kinds of propulsion- we did!.
Supports: textbook 'Viking raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 8 min

Video playlist

Viking hog-back grave
Describes the special 'upturned-ship' stone coffins.
Supports: textbook 'Viking raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 3 min (V314)

Make a Viking boat from food
Cross-curricular with eating healthily, students have to think about food for a balanced meal as well as representing the elements of a Viking longship using easily-available materials. They can eat the boat as a reward.
Supports: textbook 'Viking raiders and settlers'.
Playing time: 10 min (V315)

Making pottage
A video showing a pottage being cooked. Pottage was eaten every single day. This video explains what it was, why it was made, and how it lasted as a key meal not only in Viking times, but from its Stone Age beginnings right through to the present day.
Supports: textbook 'Viking Raiders and Settlers'.
Playing time: 8 min (V1040)

Making flour by hand
This video shows grain being ground by hand using a pestle and mortar to produce flour. People in the past had to grind corn manually like this to make the flour needed to make bread.
Supports: textbook 'Viking Raiders and Settlers'.
Playing time: 4 min (V970)