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Luminarium

Luminarium: Geoffrey Chaucer

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Luminarium offers Chaucer quotes, a biography, a collection of Chaucer's works, both in Middle and Modern English, a selection of essays about his times and his works and links to much of the other scholarly information about Chaucer on...
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Ancient Athens 3 D

For Students 9th - 10th
This website is devoted to documenting the buildings and monuments of Athens from the Mycenaean Period to about 1800 AD. Choose an era and read about the history and structures of that time period. The last section is a complete list of...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History: Japan: a.d. 500 1000

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive timeline allows visitors to view representative works of Japanese art in a segmented chronology that extends from AD 500 to 1000. Includes examples from different periods in Japanese history and from all geographical regions....
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Stanford University

Stanford History Education Group: Galileo

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students explore three primary sources and one New York Times article to determine if Galileo was a heretic as accused by the Inquisition. Lesson plans, PowerPoint and primary resources...
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University of Oregon

Mapping History: European History

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive and animated maps and timelines of historical events and time periods in European history from Greek and Phoenician colonization up to the 20th century.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: World History Episd

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Flexbooks 2.0 are interactive, customizable, digital textbooks. Flexbooks are standards-aligned. Flexi, a student tutor, is integrated into each book to guide you on your learning journey. Flexi can assist in learning, answer questions,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Landfills: Building Them Better

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Waste disposal has been an ongoing problem since medieval times. Environmental engineers are employed to develop technologies to dispose of the enormous amount of trash produced in the United States. In this instructional activity, young...
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Owl & Mouse Educational Software

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains a number of free downloadable software titles. Software includes map puzzles of every region in the world. Many of the other games focus on medieval times.
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Other

Silk Road: History of the Silk Road: The Belt and Road Initiative

For Students 9th - 10th
The Silk Road was a network of trade routes connecting the East and the West in ancient and Medieval times. The term is used for both overland routes and those that are marine or limnic. The Silk Road involved three continents: Europe,...
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PBS

Pbs: A World of Stories: The Death of Robin Hood Ballad

For Students K - 1st Standards
Storyteller Dan Keding sings a ballad about the famous folk hero. In the song, efforts to save the hero's life through the practice of "bleeding"-a common medical procedure in medieval times-are unsuccessful.
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Other

Holy Cross University: Book of Margery Kempe

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete summary of medieval Englishwomen Margery Kempe's spiritual journey and an account of how her story came to be written, since she, herself, was illiterate. Site provides an interesting perspective on the Church in England and...
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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Eat, Drink, & Be Merry: Food in the Middle Ages and Renaissance [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A booklet that accompanied a museum art exhibit on Medieval and Renaissance food. The exhibit looked at how food was portrayed in manuscript art from those times.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Kids Work! History of Theater

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief history of theater practice told in five snapshots and commentary: theater in ancient times, the medieval theater, the Renaissance theater, Kabuki, and modern-day community theater.
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Western Concepts of God

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy provides an overview of how people viewed God from the time of the Roman Empire until today.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Kids Work! History of Medicine

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief history of medicine told in five snapshots of time: ancient times, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the early modern period (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), and modern times.
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Other

Scot Clans: Scottish History

For Students 9th - 10th
Step back in time and explore Scotland's history through a series of timelines, charting events from ancient times, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, up until today. Read about the country's mysterious beginnings, its contact with...
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Harvard University

The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: A Brief Chronology

For Students 9th - 10th
This timeline of Geoffrey Chaucer's life and times from 1300 to 1400 provides a historical and social context for The Canterbury Tales. Features links to related topics.
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Harvard University

The Harvard Chaucer Page: English Romance

For Students 9th - 10th
A survey of Geoffrey Chaucer's work, which was much influenced by romance, the dominant mode of secular fictional narrative in his time.
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Children's Museum

Children's Museum: Field Guide to the Universe: Astronomers

For Students 9th - 10th
Read brief biographies of astronomers who are grouped by time period.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Maps Tell Us

For Students 9th - 10th
Maps are subjective, and like any form of art and design they have stories to tell and reveal a lot about the times in which they were produced. Maps involve selections of information, human editing, and a visual language legible to the...
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Other

Sherwood Times: Lancelot and Guinevere

For Students 9th - 10th
An adapted version of a work by Chretien of Troyes that deals with the relationship between Lancelot and Guinevere.
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University of California

Uc Davis: Importance of Salt

For Students 9th - 10th
The UC Davis site not only discusses the history of the salt trade, but also evaluates the importance of salt to society throughout history. It covers the history of salt from ancient times through the medieval and modern periods.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Middle Ages for Kids: Glossary and Terms

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students learn about the glossary and terms from the Middle Ages and Medieval times. Words and definitions you need to know about this time period can be found on this site.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Beltane the Smith by Jeffrey Farnol

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of "Beltane the Smith" by Jeffrey Farnol set in medieval times.

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