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Renaissance Biography Project worksheet
You have been chosen by Renaissance Time Magazine to write biographies of famous Renaissance people for our new issue. The issue's title is "The Most Influential People of the Renaissance". Your job is to write biographies for each of our honorees. Pick any 2 of the Renaissance people listed below; your fellow journalists will do the rest!
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4th - 11th
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Middle Ages Research Project
This is a research project on the Middle Ages for middle school students, but it could be modified for both elementary and high school students.The document includes project requirements, suggested topics, rubric, and timeline.Middle Ages Research Project by Lori A. Musa is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
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4th - 12th
Viking Scavenger Hunt: Internet Research
Utilizing a highly engaging website students will research the history of the Vikings and Viking life. They will also have an opportunity to creatively express what they've learned in drawings and comic strips. This can be an individual or team assignment; done in a computer lab or for homework if students have access to the internet at home. Question sheet, instructions and answer key included.
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3rd - 6th
The Black Death-- Research and Poster Project
Oh, the Black Death—oddly a class favorite! This student-centered lesson (online research, poster creation) was created with the aim for students to develop a well-rounded knowledge of the Black Death and its impact on medieval society. Part-One: Part one of the lesson includes a two-page research assignment where students must use the internet to investigate information on the Black Death. The questions vary from defining key words to critical thinking questions. This typically takes my sophomo
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7th - 12th
COVID - 19 vs. Black Death Primary Source Analysis
The Black Death spread through Europe in the 1340’s killing almost 50 million people. The Black Death is described as the greatest pandemic in Europe. Coronavirus is currently crippling the world due to its high number of cases. Throughout this assignment you will be looking at both the Black Death and the Coronavirus to answer the question: How are the effects of the Black Plague and Coronavirus similar. What can we learn from historic events that influence today?
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6th - 12th
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Middle Ages Take Home Projects with Rubrics
This is a list of ten take home style projects on the Middle Ages complete with rubrics for each one. There are different options to accommodate different learning styles and availability of resources such as the internet at home. Students and teachers have the option to choose to build a castle or catapult, research medieval warfare, write their own medieval story, and even perform a dramatic scene set in the Middle Ages. For those artistic students, there is even an option to draw a medieva
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6th - 9th
Medieval History Interview: Lifestyles of the Rich & Everyone Else
Looking for a class activity that makes the middle ages & research fun? Then the Medieval History Interview is for you. Your students will be producers for the hit reality TV show "Lifestyles of the Rich & Everyone Else." They will select a person from the middle ages, research their lives and interview them. Includes: Interview questions, in class dramatic activities and can be used as the basis for student created videos.Successfully used with 4-12th graders.
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4th - 12th
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Historical Walls Did they actually work? Do they work today
The Athenians could not defeat the Spartans infantry phalanx in battle so they relied on their Long Wall to protect their city. The Chinese could not stop the invasion of the Mongols so they constructed the longest wall in history, the so-called Great Wall of China, to stop the onslaught. The Romans failed to conquer the fierce tribes in the North of Britain so they built Hadrian’s Wall to keep them from attacking the South. Throughout the Middle Ages cities were surrounded by walls like that i
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6th - 10th
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Year 8 History - Vikings
Includes 7 PowerPoints on the Vikings, a personal timeline exercise, famous Vikings research activity and a Viking Voyages worksheet
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8th
Gothic Cathedral building project
This Gothic Cathedral building project will get your students excited about Medieval Europe. They will learn about the different parts of Cathedrals as well as how they affected the people of the time. They will utilize different skills such as, researching, creative writing, tactile learning, and working in groups. This project should be able to reach students with many different learning styles. It can be spaced out for a couple class periods or stretched out over a couple weeks to last the le
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7th - 12th
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Renaissance Power Point - Art and Artists
Power Point on Michaelangelo, DaVinci, Donatello, Boticelli, and other Renaissance artists and art
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5th - 11th
Medieval Job Fair Project - World History
This is a word document detailing our annual Medieval Job Fair Project in World History. The students are divided into groups and assigned different "jobs" from the Medieval Era. Each group sets up a booth in class as other students from the school visit the fair. Students are encouraged to dress up and decorate their booths as they compete for bonus points.
Wonderful for students of different learning styles. Opportunity for students who don't like lecture format to engage and have fun. One of
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8th - 12th
Medieval Podcast Project
Through use of primary and secondary resource research, script writing, and creativity, your students will record their own podcasts on medieval historical topics. This has been a popular project with my students and the results have taught all of us useful information about the period between the Fall of Rome to the Renaissance.
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8th - 12th
Evaluate the Medieval Church: Anti-Semitism, the Crusades and the Inquistion
Hello fellow educators! This presentation is for those World History teachers who need content and investigative lessons on the power of the Catholic Church during the late Middle Ages. It conforms to new state standards across the country and the new AP Modern World History curriculum (1200 CE - Present), which stresses teaching this particular topic for the AP Exam. It contains several slides featuring recommended essential questions, warm ups, brief lecture notes and three mini-lessons/simula
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
British Literature Multi-Genre Research Project
This is a very fun 5-7 day lesson plan. It entails:
• Students to choose a British Romanticism topic
• Research a British Romantic author from the textbook (for Texas classrooms) or on the internet
• Write a lyric poem about the theme
• Write a 1 page literary analysis: describing the differences from their (the author) interpretation of that theme from ours.
• Draw a full illustration of your poem in a William Blake format (poem within the illustration).
Also includes examples of student
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9th - 12th
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Middle Ages Video Game Design Project
My goal with this assignment was to have students unify the world of the Middle Ages into some coherent project. This project can last for at least a week, but even up to 3 weeks, as students have to research at least 5 civilizations and build a video game design from them. This assignment has students design a video game about the Middle Ages. The handouts included can help guide students through making a game where a player needs to have a character travel through the Holy Roman Empire, Byzant
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: World History: Paleolithic/Prehistoric to the end of the Middle Ages
Catapult History Web quest
Attached is some useful videos and a grid style web quest for students to find out some more information about catapults. It should take no longer than an hour to complete and has answers attached.
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4th - 10th
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Ever After Movie Writing Assignment
This writing assignment can be used as an introduction to Medieval Times/Feudalism or as a summative assessment. The writing task directs students to write a letter to their principal that either supports the use of the movie Ever After as an educational tool or opposes it's use. Students use a graphic organizer to take notes about cultural elements they believe to be fact or fiction as they watch the movie. The lesson includes directions/web sources for internet research as well as a graphic
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6th - 10th
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Life in Medieval Towns - PowerPoint Project
Have students research an aspect of life in medieval towns, and then create a PowerPoint presentation. A note-taking guide is included for students to use as they watch the presentations.
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6th - 8th
Shakespeare's Life, the Middle Ages vs the Renaissance, & Elizabethan Theatre
Lecture notes on Shakespeare's life, the Middle Ages vs. the Renaissance, and Elizabethan theatre. Great background information to give before having students read any of Shakespeare's works.
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9th - 12th
Heresy Project
A project where students work with a partner to research a heresy. Partners then work independently to make the most convincing argument for or against the heresy in a class debate (the point is to be creative and persuasive; we all know that the heresies are wrong and nobody is really going to be convinced).
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Facing the Inquisition
The Inquisition associated with the Middle Ages and the Renaissance began as a Catholic Church Court instituted to seek out and prosecute heretics. Soon the very term “Inquisition” became applied to the personnel of the tribunals, and to the judicial procedures followed by the Church courts. Notoriously harsh in its procedures, including incredibly severe tortures, the Inquisition was defended by the Catholic Church and its leaders, including numerous Popes. In 1252 Pope Innocent IV issued a P
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: The Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Reformation
Code of Chivalry Essay Assignment
Students are asked to write an essay about the Code of Chivalry. They will need to apply the Code of Chivalry to today's standards and look to see if the Code of Chivalry still applies and/or exists today. Would there be problems for a person if every point in the Code of Chivalry were followed in present times? These are the type of questions students would need to address in their essay.
You can also find this assignment, along with 14 other activities and projects, PowerPoint notes, and tes
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7th - 10th
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History Essays: Medieval Afro-Eurasia Thematic Expository/Comparative
Pre-TeachingStudents will need to practice Note-Taking skills like Cornell Notes or Mind Mapping or some other systematic note-taking method beforehand, ideally. Content Covered1. The Black Death's causes and Medieval Europe's response as it pertains to economic changes in the feudal system2. Medieval Africa's developing international trade networks, the spread of Islam's effect on these trade routes, and long term effects of this trade (Fistful of Shells by Toby Green, The Travels of Ibn Battut
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9th - 12th
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