The Vikings
Your child can say who the Vikings were: sailors and fighters from the north with long ships. They know Vikings did more than raid; they also farmed and traded.
In curriculum terms
Who the Vikings were: seafaring warriors and traders from Scandinavia; longships; Viking raids on Britain; that Vikings also settled and farmed
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Could your child tell you who the Vikings were, where they came from, and that they did more than just raid and fight?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).