The Vikings Post Primary School Handling Session – Suitable for Junior Certificate and Transition Year Students.
Duration: 60mins
Cost €3.50 per student, teachers go free!
This workshop utilizes replica objects, digital interactives, and artifacts from our collection to enhance students’ understanding of the Vikings’ history in Ireland. It informs them about the Viking culture, including their lifestyle, clothing, weapons used in battles, and innovative technology that they introduced to the Irish people.
Curricular Links:
Visual Art: Strand – Art (Element: Critical and visual language, 1.1,
1.2 ; Element: Visual Culture and Appreciation
History: Strand – Developing Historical Consciousness – History of Ireland
Geography: Strand – Exploring People, Places, and Change
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This is also available as a loan box.
The Hunt Museum offers a range of different loan boxes containing an array of handling material, and activity resources, that can bring the past to life in the classroom.
Contains artifacts relating to Ireland’s Viking age, and the role of the Norsemen in Limerick.
Cost: 35 euro for 10 days.
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