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A resource to help students improve their knowledge and understanding of the chronology of English history during the Anglo-Saxon / Viking period.
This resource is designed specifically to help students in particular with the concept of chronology through a visual example.
The power point is designed to convey a sense of the passage of time by having the transition between slides vary in length depending on how many years actually passed between events.

There is a range of 26 events, from 449 CE -the traditional date for the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in England-to 1066 CE and the end of Anglo-Saxon England following the Norman invasion and victory at Hastings.
Each slide has a date, event and appropriate illustration. Each event slide is on show for five seconds and with the transitions varying from one second to twenty-four seconds the whole presentation lasts for approximately five minutes. (most transitions are shorter than ten seconds, so students don’t have too long to wait but does give a sense of different lengths of time).

There is also a ‘click through’ version of the slide show (same events) to enable the teacher to pause to give additional information or discuss the event with students.
The selection of events is not meant to be definitive for the study of that period (it’s a selection not a comprehensive timeline). It is also a compilation from a range of different sources allows for an extra activity/challenge of students deciding what is missing/what could be left out?
This is a companion resource to our timeline activity on this period -which features most of these events in a sequencing challenge.