Decoding Runes worksheets for Medieval History

I'll be teaching Medieval History again at my kids' homeschool co-op, and it reminded me of these worksheets I'd made the last time I taught it.

Three years ago, we carvedrunes into soapstone sticks.

The kids carved designs, too

You can also carve these soapstone welding sticks as plant ID lables

I knew some kids would finish before others, so I made a little worksheet that has (A) coloring pages and (B) questions about medieval history with the answers written in runes. Since my students are K-8 of various abilities and interests, I figured some might color, and others might attempt some/all of the questions.

When we learned about wattle and daub, I made another worksheet with runes to decode...because, why not?

First page of the rune decoding worksheet. The resolution is a lot less in this format. You probably want to download either the Word or PDF formats below.

Just downloaded and thinking of using a quick twist with using chalk on the paving stones for our weekly summer lesson! Thank you for the help!

Yay!!! I'm glad it's helpful for you, and I hope the kids have so much fun writing in runes!

I always like to tell the kids how runes are shaped the way they are because they were carved--carving curvy lines is hard! It's really fascinating seeing how different writing systems look different because of what they were written with and written on. Another example of this is cuneiform. Cuneiform was used in Mesopotamia and was written on clay with reeds (both of which are abundant there). Since it's hard to write "normally" in clay, they impressed their reeds into the clay to form symbols and letters--cuneiform literally means "wedge shaped," because it's made by a bunch of wedges!  

I re-uploaded the Viking edition worksheets (both Word and PDF) because a few of the runs were weird (I used the "Elder Futhark" font, and if you capitalize a letter, you get a different rune. So, "Longship" and "Vineland" ended up weird because I'd accidently capitalized the letter!). I think I caught and fixed all of the errors.