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Calligraphy, Handwriting And The Alphabet

For Teachers K - 8th
Students produce calligraphy projects using writing skills and unique tools in this six-day Art activity. Emphasis is placed upon the work of Portland, Oregon calligraphy artist Inga Dubay and her experiences with "Italic" writing...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduction to the Reformation

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders investigate the Protestant Reformation. In this global history lesson, 9th graders examine the provided primary sources that enable students to create posters and presentations that reveal how Catholicism, Lutheranism,...
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Symmetry in Paper Airplanes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore symmetry.  In this geometry and scientific inquiry lesson, students design paper airplanes with middle line symmetry, as well as right, obtuse, and acute angles.  Students measure the plane's angles using a protractor,...
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PPT
Curated OER

Neo-Classicism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Taking students from the origins of Neoclassical art, architecture, sculpture, painting, and decorative arts to the "sunset" of the artistic movement, this slideshow provides ample infomation and examples of the art form. The slides...
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Worksheet
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Fernando Botero

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Fernando Botero worksheet, students read about the life of the painter, then complete a variety of comprehension activities. An answer key is included.
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Lesson Plan
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Rapunzel

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Youngsters read the story of Rapunzel and go over vocabulary and answer discussion questions. They also list qualities of characters, discuss settings, make a diorama, and more.
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Lesson Plan
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The Secret Life of Money Part 1

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore money, how its value determined, and how mere slips of paper or coins, and in today's high-tech world electronic blips, represent the wealth of a nation.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

History Trivia For Kids

For Students 4th - 7th
There are 40 history trivia questions and answers.  Students have to cut out the questions and the answers and try to match the correct answer to the question.  The trivia questions are all related to history but from many different...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Explorers

For Students 4th - 5th
In this explorers worksheet, students read a detailed text about the Age of Exploration from 1450 to 1700. Students then answer 7 matching or multiple choice questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Lost Frescoes

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners explore the life and art of Giotto and his use of perspective in his drawings. They then write a short paper about how political support needs to be generated for community action to save objects of art. They investigate what...
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: The Renaissance, 1300 1600

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Find a selection of readings to enhance teaching humanism and the Italian Renaissance and follow up with some of the questions available through MIT.
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University of Massachusetts Lowell: Italian Renaissance: Neoplatonism

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains how the Platonic tradition was revived in Italian Renaissance humanism. It presents an analysis of Ancient Greece and Plato's thought, and then describes how his ideas were adapted to fit humanistic teaching. It also...
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Handout
Washington State University

Washington State University: Architecture in the Italian Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information on how Italian Renaissance architecture found its roots in the ancient world, the principles it rested on, and some key figures in its development.
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PPT
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Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne: The Italian Renaissance [Ppt]

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed slideshow that presents key concepts and ideas on Renaissance economics, society, politics, arts and architecture, philosophy, the Papacy, and the spread of humanism. The significant individuals in each category are also...
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PPT
Tom Richey

Tom Richey: Humanism and the Italian Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the foundation of the Italian Renaissance, classical studies, and humanism. This is a comprehensive study tool.
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eBook
Other

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: European Renaissance and Reformation, 1300 1600 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Chapter 17 of a textbook on world history (36 pages). Includes a Renaissance timeline and map. Looks at the conditions that led to the Italian Renaissance, major artists, writers, the Northern Renaissance, the Elizabethan Age, the...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Background

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides background for an English Renaissance unit; it compares the English Renaissance with the Italian Renaissance. It features Queen Elizabeth I's influence and provides a poem written by the queen, "When I Was Fair and...
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Handout
United Nations

Unesco: Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and Its Po Delta

For Students 9th - 10th
This World Heritage website features Ferrara, a focal point for the Italian Renaissance in the 15th and 16th centuries. Ferrara is known as well as the place where modern town planning began. Found here are a description, a map,...
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Unit Plan
A&E Television

History.com: History: Italian Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of the Renaissance as it was expressed in Italy, with links to videos on the subject aired on History, the cable television channel.
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Handout
The History Cat

The History Cat: Italian Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of life in Florence, Italy during the Renaissance, the emergence of humanist thought, and of how the Renaissance got its start in Italy. The Lorenzo de Medici's important role as a patron of the arts in Florence is...
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Website
University of California

Renaissance Art and Architecture

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed overview of art and architecture during the Renaissance. Covers all the major figures and countries.
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Website
Other

Italian renaissance.org: Basic Ideas of the Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
Basic information about the Renaissance. Looks at Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, painting, and sculpture. Touches upon humanism.
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eBook
Boise State University

European History: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains indexed material on Jacob Burckhardt's "The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy." His work is considered the apex of cultural history about the Renaissance period and should provide valuable information for the...
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Website
Then Again

Then Again: Web Chron: The Italian Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a short timeline of key events of the Italian Renaissance. Make sure to click on "Humanism" and "Renaissance Art" for more information.

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