Viking Age Curriculum Guides
Discovery Tour: Viking Age lets players and students Discover the life of Vikings and Anglo-Saxons in the 9th century! This curriculum guide is meant for teachers to develop their own customized Viking Age lesson plans and printable classroom materials.
Viking Age Curriculum Guides
Discovery Tour: Viking Age lets players and students Discover the life of Vikings and Anglo-Saxons in the 9th century! This curriculum guide is meant for teachers to develop their own customized Viking Age lesson plans and printable classroom materials.
Curriculum Map
Find targeted learning objectives from six disciplines: social sciences, science, math, language and literacy, arts, and 21st century competencies. Explore instructional recommendations, play behaviors, and assessment suggestions linked to each learning objective. Choose the cards to build a custom lesson plan for your students.
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Find the detailed explanations of possible play behaviors and guided tours, to select the most appropriate gameplay content for students. Explore the instructional recommendations linked to each play behavior on how to combine learning and playing. Add your favorite cards to your custom lesson plan.
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Facing difficulties or technical concerns around the use of Discovery Tour? Explore recommendations around common problems around preparation, managing resources, connectivity and licensing, and remote use. Select the cards to support your own lesson plan.
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Example Lesson Plans
Explore five detailed lesson plans with classroom materials (e.g., worksheets) prepared for the discipline of language and literacy, mathematics, science, social sciences, and arts. Also, find the onboarding lesson plan to prepare yourself and your students to adopt Discovery Tour. Download the resources if you need.
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↓Discovery Tour: Viking Age Lesson Plan Quest 1 Oaths and Honour
Number of Classes: 2 × 40 minutes
Learner Level: Medium
Overview: This lesson plan focuses on the significance of honour and oath-keeping in the Viking culture. It introduces students to the concept of "the Assembly" and the role of fashion in the daily life of Vikings. Students work in pairs and team up for two classes and one out-of-class project.
↓Discovery Tour: Viking Age Lesson Plan Quest 2 Through Faith & Fire
Number of Classes: 3 × 40 minutes
Learner Level: Medium, Advanced
Overview: This lesson plan aims to help students discover early Medieval Anglo-Saxon Christian life through a significant historical institution, the monastery. Class 1 focuses on the gaming experience and building a basic understanding. Class 2 guides students to further investigate the religious beliefs behind monastic life and the social impacts of the monastery. Class 3 emphasizes the intertwined relationship between religion and early Medieval medical science and extends the discussion to knowledge development and transmission.
↓Discovery Tour: Viking Age Lesson Plan Quest 3 Seaworthy
Number of Classes: 2 × 40 minutes
Learner Level: Medium, Advanced
Overview: This lesson primarily revolves around the construction process of a Viking longboat, the scientific knowledge used by Vikings to ensure its stability and structure, and the mythological beliefs around seafaring in the Viking culture.
↓Discovery Tour: Viking Age Lesson Plan Quest 4 Into the West
Number of Classes: 2 × 40 minutes
Learner Level: Medium, Advanced
Overview: This lesson plan aims to show students the techniques and traditions of Scandinavian seafarers during the Medieval period. The first class concentrates on the cultural aspects of seafaring, such as conventions and supernatural beliefs. The second class focuses on the details of seafaring activities (e.g., life on the sea) and their connections with the physical geographical attributes of Norway. The Out of Class Project uses the seafaring scenario to train students’ teamwork soft skills.
↓Discovery Tour: Viking Age Lesson Plan Quest 5 A Barter for Peace
Number of Classes: 2 × 40 minutes
Learner Level: Elementary, Medium
Overview: This lesson plan, aimed at elementary and medium-level students, focuses on the geopolitics and influence of the religious beliefs of the Anglo-Saxon people on the political decisions taken by their leaders. Students play the quests and the Discovery Sites individually on their gaming devices.
↓Discovery Tour: Viking Age Lesson Plan Quest 6 Aelfred’s Legacy
Number of Classes: 2 × 40 minutes
Learner Level: Medium, Advanced
Overview: This lesson plan focuses on one significant historical figure, Alfred the Great. The first class introduces King Alfred’s social reforms after his victory at the Battle of Edington. The second class is designed to help students understand the political landscape during King Alfred’s reign and further analyze the influences of his reforms. The final out-of-class project invites students to roleplay as members of the Witan and simulate political decision-making.
↓Discovery Tour: Viking Age Lesson Plan Quest 7 New Life, New Lands
Number of Classes: 2 × 40 minutes
Learner Level: Medium, Advanced
Overview: The gameplay for this lesson plan takes place in the city of Jorvik. Students learn about the trading and economic prowess of the city and the factors that worked in its favor for it to become a center of trade. Students also learn about how the institution of marriage was perceived in ancient Scandinavian society.
↓Discovery Tour: Viking Age Lesson Plan Quest 8 Where Fates Align
Number of Classes: 2 × 40 minutes
Learner Level: Elementary, Medium
Overview: The quest “Where Fates Align” tells the story of Thorsteinn in the mythical realms of Jotunheim and Asgard on the World Tree. Separate from the other history-based quests, this lesson plan mainly helps students understand the basic ideas of Norse mythology (e.g., major deities such as Thor and Odin, significant concepts like sacrifice to wisdom and unalterable fate). Students are encouraged to freely explore the game world and use the Photo Mode to capture images of scenes or characters they find interesting. The out-of-class project then invites students to create artworks using the quest as their source of information and inspiration.
↓Additional Learning Resources
In addition to the above lesson plans, additional content is available to help you navigate the game, get familiar with the content and complement your learning experience with Discovery Tour.
Click the link below to download the dedicated user guide for the game and some more historical resources relevant to teaching and learning. All in-game historical texts and descriptions are notably available, as well as the image files illustrating each historical entry.
The package also provides a convenient access to video recordings of all quests in the game.
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