Activity 1 - What influences you?

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Activity Tasks

1. Definitions - The global context for this unit is 'Personal and Cultural Expression'. What do you think this means? Discuss your ideas with a partner.
2. Mind-Map - What influences you? Use Padlet to make a mind-map of what influences your thinking, ideas & values about the world. Think about influences from home, from the wider world, online and from school.
3. Collage - Now add images to your mind-map to represent these personal and cultural influences on your life. You should build up a detailed collage of images and text.

Activity 2 - What was the Renaissance?

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Activity Tasks

1. Think/Pair/Share - What was the Renaissance? What do you know about it? Make some notes on what you know already, discuss with a partner, then share!
2. Video - Watch the CrashCourse video on the Renaissance, or watch this longer video for a challenge. Take Cornell Notes on key information about the Renaissance from the videos.
3. Questions - Now read this worksheet and complete the six questions in your books. Write in full sentences!

Activity 3 - Where was the Renaissance?

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Activity Tasks

1. Locate - Where did the Renaissance happen? Use Scribble Maps to locate the cities of Florence and Venice.
2. Map - Using this worksheet, complete the following tasks to design your map of Renaissance Italy using Scribble Maps:
   1. Locate the big cities of the Renaissance using markers and labels - Florence, Venice, Rome, Milan, Genoa, London, Copenhagen, Antwerp.
   2. Label the Seas - The Adriatic sea and the Mediterranean Seas
   3. Mark on these Areas - The Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, Damascus
   4. Label these Trade Routes - Genoese and Venetian sea and land trade routes
3. ​Quick Write - Write a short paragraph to describe how the geographic location of Italian city states may have helped them to become rich and powerful.
4. Screenshot - Take a screenshot of your completed map and upload it to your unit padlet with a brief description.

Activity 4 - Why was 15th C. Italy changing?

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Activity Tasks

1. ​Card Sort - Get into six groups. Each group will examine a different change card that was affecting Italy in the 15th century. Alternatively, this can be done in pairs.
2. Summarise - Read your change card as a group and discuss how these changes may have influenced the thinking of an ordinary Italian person. Then paraphrase the information onto this summary worksheet.
3. Quickwrite - What was the most significant factor that influenced the thinking of people in Renaissance Italy?

Activity 5 - Renaissance Escape Room

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Activity Tasks

1. Groups - For this activity you will need to be in ten groups of three students max. 
2. Escape Room - Each group needs to complete ten missions. Your answers and solutions to each mission need to be written down on this worksheet. Once you have completed a mission, return to check your answer with your teacher. If correct, you will receive a letter. 
3. Winners - The first group to have received all the letters from the missions, and shouts out the correct word wins!

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