1. What and where was the Renaissance?

Activity 1 - What influences you?

Activity Tasks

Definitions - The global context for this unit is 'Personal and Cultural Expression'. What do you think this means? Discuss your ideas with a partner.
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.
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 Tasks

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!
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.
Questions - Now read this worksheet and complete the six questions in your books. Write in full sentences!

Activity Tasks

Locate - Where did the Renaissance happen? Use Scribble Maps to locate the cities of Florence and Venice.
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
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.
Screenshot - Take a screenshot of your completed map and upload it to your unit padlet with a brief description.

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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.
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.
Quickwrite - What was the most significant factor that influenced the thinking of people in Renaissance Italy?

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Groups - For this activity you will need to be in ten groups of three students max.
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.
Winners - The first group to have received all the letters from the missions, and shouts out the correct word wins!