Early Modern Age Bundle

Buy all four Early Modern Age presentations and save. These dynamic presentations on the Early Modern Age provide visuals, video links, guided notes, and reflection questions to keep your students engaged for the entire lesson.

Two versions of each lesson!

The first is a Presentation - PowerPoint/Google Slides - for those teachers who know the topic and want to guide their students through the material. There are links to Youtube and Vimeo in the presentations. Links are checked weekly and updated when necessary. There are handouts for note taking along with reflection questions included with this presentation.

The second version consists of the information and images on worksheets that the students can read through at their own pace. This is best done if laptops or tablets are available for the class or for online learning. This version comes with more indepth questions that the students can work through at their own pace.

Google App Links are on the Teacher Instructions Sheet!

Lesson 1: The Renaissance

The Renaissance began in Northern Italy and spread across the continent. It would spark both the Reformation and the Age of Exploration charting a new course for Europe.

Topics covered in this presentation include:

♦ Factors that led to the Renaissance

♦ Cities of Northern Italy

♦ The influence of new ideas

♦ The Humanists

♦ The Printing Press

Lesson 2: The Reformation

The Reformation is one of the most significant events in Western History. It change the political, social, economic, and religious fabric of Europe forever and would chart a new course for Western Civilization

This lesson covers the following topics:

♦ The Corruption in the Church

♦ Pope Leo X

♦ Martin Luther

♦ The 95 Theses

♦ The Diet of Worms

♦ The Political Landscape of Germany

♦ Calvinism

♦ The Wars of Religion

♦ The Impact on Europe

Lesson 3: The Age of Exploration

The Age of Exploration set Europe on a course towards the Modern World. New sea routes were discovered providing Western European nations with wealth that had been unheard of previously. The societies of four continents, Europe, Africa, North and South America were drastically altered.

This lesson covers the following topics:

♦ Early Trading Networks

♦ Impact of the Conquest of Constantinople

♦ Advances in Navigation

♦ Early Portuguese Explorers

♦ Christopher Columbus

♦ Spanish Empire

♦ Northern European Explorers

♦ Motivation to Explore - Gold, God, Glory

♦ Introduction of New Crops to Europe

♦ The Impact on Native Americans

♦ The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Lesson 4: The Scientific Revolution

The Scientific Revolution was one of the greatest developments in European and World history. It revealed the nature of the universe and laid the foundation for the Modern World.

Topics covered in this presentation include:

♦ Ancient Ideas about the World

♦ Greek Natural Philosophers

♦ The Middle Ages

♦ Arab Scholars

♦ The Renaissance

♦ Heliocentrism & The Copernican Revolution

♦ Galileo Galilei

♦ Scientific Methodology

♦ Sir Isaac Newton

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