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Curated OER

Modern Day Mona Lisa

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners create a portrait of a woman from our current era. They discuss what they would include in a portrait for our era in the U.S., list current trends and styles, and create a modern-day "Mona Lisa" portrait.
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Curated OER

The Third Question

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students reflect upon the rewards of providing services to others, and whether by giving they might perhaps be gaining at the same time. They explain how or why Knowing a foreign language can help people make new friends and build a new...
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Curated OER

Orfeo: Sinfonie e Ritornelli

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students identify the dramatic expression made by performance and how it relates to the content of the story L'Orfeo. They determine the form of orchestra and each instrumental group within the orchestra for this piece.
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Website
Columbia University

Columbia University: Renaissance Architecture

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Renaissance architecture and explore 360 degrees panoramas of buildings in France, Italy, and Portugal. A few can also be explored through their architectural plans. Features one project that maps Venice's Renaissance art and...
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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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Website
University of Victoria (Canada)

Internet Shakespeare Editions: Art in Renaissance England

For Students 9th - 10th
Topics available from this page include Medieval art, Renaissance art, Raphael: Italy comes to England, Later Renaissance art, Art in northern Europe, and Art in England. All of these topics are discussed in light of Shakespeare's life...
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Handout
City University of New York

Cuny: General Characteristics of the Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the rebirth of the Renaissance in the context of five interrelated issues: a renewed interest in classical antiquity and the concept of "the Great Chain of Being", political changes, Humanism, the literary doctrine of...
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibition includes information and artifacts from the Vatican Library regarding archaeology, humanism, mathematics, music, medicine, nature, and more.
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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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Handout
Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: The Northern Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
Centered in Germany and the Netherlands during 1400 and 1500s, the northern European tradition of Gothic Art was greatly affected by the technical and philosophical advancements of the Renaissance in Italy. While less concerned with...
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Early Renaissance Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Here at Artcyclopedia you find a very brief explanation of the Early Renaissance along with many links out to the artists related to the movement.
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Handout
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: La Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses all aspects of European Renaissance including the artists of Italian high renaissance. Links to the renaissance movement in the Netherlands, Germany and France.
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Website
Other

Villa Cicogna Mozzoni: A Renaissance Jewel

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the renaissance villa on Lake Maggiore and Italian national monument site, the Villa Cicogna Mozzoni, in the main web-page for the villa. Full of historical information, maps, and photos.
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University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: Historical Maps of Italy

For Students 9th - 10th
Review these two maps of Italy during the Renaissance from the Perry Castaneda Collection. Zoom in to see the details of a map of the Milanese under the Visconti and one of the Republic of Florence.
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PPT
Other

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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PBS

Pbs: Medici, Godfathers of the Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Renaissance period and its cultural leaders, the Medici family. Take an interactive tour of Florence and use the interactive timeline to understand the course of the Renaissance through the centuries. Uses popups.
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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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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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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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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Renaissance for Kids: Northern Renaissance

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about how the Renaissance played out in European countries outside of Italy. Users can follow links to further information on the Elizabethan Era, William Shakespeare, the Reformation, and other connected topics.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Renaissance Florence During the Renaissance

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Florence, Italy during the Renaissance. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Handout
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: La Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from ibiblio.com explains the Renaissance, not only as a time period, but as how it changed thought, writing, and art throughout Europe. See links to Renaissance in Italy, Germany and Netherlands.
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eBook
Other

Eugene School District: The Renaissance Begins [Pdf]

For Students 7th - 9th
Chapter 28 of a middle school textbook on world history (7 pages). It explains how the Renaissance began in Italy, and the differences between classical, medieval, and Renaissance art. It discusses the expanding world of trade and...
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Handout
Northern Virginia Community College

Introduction to Theater: The Renaissance/neoclassicism in Italy

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief class notes on the Italian Renaissance, Also includes notes on Neoclassicism, Italian staging and Commedia dell'Arte

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