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Cover slide for the Viking dragonship art project, showing a painted ship with a striped sail and oars
Opening slide of the dragonship painting project
Learning goals slide: Viking explorers, drawing with simple shapes, watercolor techniques, and craftsmanship
Learning goals for the art project
Viking background slide naming Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, explaining raids, and introducing Norse mythology
Introduction to Vikings and Norse mythology
Viking facts slide covering sea exploration, raids, battles, Celtic knots, and a stated age of AD 700–1100
Additional Viking facts and a timeline question
Longships lesson slide explaining sails, rowing oars, overland transport, and room for 50 or 60 oarsmen
Longship design and methods of travel
Dragonships lesson slide showing carved ship ornaments and explaining dragon heads at the bow and stern tails
Dragon head and tail features of longships
Shields lesson slide showing round Viking shields and explaining their use in battle and on longship sides
Viking shields and their placement on ships
Modern dragonship slide introducing Draken Harald Harfagre, with construction begun in 2010 and sailing in 2012
Introduction to a modern Viking ship
Dragonship observation slide showing Draken Harald Harfagre at sea and asking why its sail is raised or lowered
Sail observation question for the modern ship
Assignment slide directing students to draw their own dragonship and color it using two watercolor techniques
Drawing and watercolor assignment directions
Attributes
Grades

Grade 3, 4, 5, 6

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About This Product

Viking Dragonship Paintings Teaching Resource

Viking Dragonship Paintings is an engaging teaching resource designed to catalyze creativity and foster a love for history among 3rd to 6th-grade students. This comprehensive art project enhances artistic skills while deepening historical understanding, transporting students back to the era of Vikings.

Designed For Ease-Of-Teaching

The resource offers step-by-step guidance on creating complex forms like Viking dragonships from simple shapes. Important painting techniques such as wet-on-dry and wet-on-wet are emphasized, along with an innovative technique of modifying paint texture using salt! The project can be incorporated into group activities or assigned as individual projects.

Included Content - PowerPoint Presentation!

The robust content in the form of a PowerPoint presentation stimulates informative discussions about Vikings and their famed Dragonships while providing tips on various painting techniques. The presentation includes:

  • 29 slides: rich with teaching strategies, learning goals, and questioning tactics meant to stimulate critical thinking.
  • Success Criteria: clearly defined to measure learning effectiveness at the end of the module.

List Of Necessary Supplies Provided

We offer a list detailing all necessary supplies like pencil paper, sharpies watercolors paintbrushes watercolor paper along with an optional element – salt (to create different paint textures).

This unique blend of art and history makes lessons visually stimulating and intellectually provocative which promotes enriched development among today's learners. Use this resource effectively — ignite young minds' immersion into times hundreds of years past all while nurturing their artistic potential in your classroom or homeschool setting.

What's Included

A 29-slide PowerPoint Presentation including:

Teaching strategies and tips

Learning goals

Informational text about Vikings, Dragonships, watercolor painting techniques + more

Questions for critical thinking

Success Criteria

Media/Supplies List

Step-by-step directions with visuals

Student examples

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