Viking longhouse
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 5
- Subjects
- science (general), social studies (North America, world cultures, world history), thinking skills (information literacy, research skills)
- Provider
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
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In this Science Update, students investigate evidence that suggests early Viking explorers spent time visiting the North American continent long before Christopher Columbus. Researchers found ruins of a farmhouse in Iceland that might reveal that the Vikings settled there after an initial visit to Newfoundland, Canada. Science NetLinks provides a link to the audio file, a written transcript, and questions to engage students in a discussion about the techniques used by scientists to identify this early structure. This lesson also contains links to the Parks Canada’s site devoted to the earliest known European settlement, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History website, and another lesson plan on the Vikings in North America.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Social Studies (2003)
Grade 5
- Goal 1: The learner will apply key geographic concepts to the United States and other countries of North America.
- Objective 1.01: Describe the absolute and relative location of major landforms, bodies of water,and natural resources in the United States and other countries of North America.
- Objective 1.07: Analyze the past movement of people, goods, and ideas within and among the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America and compare it to movement today.
Science (2005)
Grade 5
- Goal 4: The learner will conduct investigations and use appropriate technologies to build an understanding of forces and motion in technological designs.
- Objective 4.07: Determine how people use simple machines to solve problems.
