Activity 1 - Which Renaissance Hero?

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Activity Tasks

1. Mystery - You will be given an object from the Renaissance. Use the biographies around the room to decide which Renaissance hero created your object. You must support your selection with evidence from the biography. The Renaissance heroes are:
   1. Leonardo da Vinci
   2. Galileo
   3. Rafael
   4. Michelangelo

Activity 2 - What influences your thinking?

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Activity Tasks

1. Mind-map - Think about what or who influences how you think about social and cultural issues. Then choose one of the following world issues and mind-map who and/or what might influence your views on that question:
   1. The role of women in society
   2. Climate change/the state of the environment
   3. Who should governs us
   4. The gap between rich and poor

Activity 3 - How did people think in 1500?

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Activity Tasks

1. Review - Examine this grid from last lesson on things that influenced thinking during the Renaissance.
2. Design - Draw a grid in your workbook with the headings ‘Thoughts of people from 1500’ and ‘Thoughts of people from today’.
3. Sort - Read through the thought bubbles on this worksheet and sort them into the correct column.
4. Quickwrite - Which do you think are the two most important differences between the thoughts of people today and people from 1500? Explain your choice.

Activity 4 - Key Ideas of the Renaissance

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Activity Tasks

1. Reading - Read through this worksheet and complete the following questions:
   1. Why do you think Petrarch's discoveries of Ancient Greek and Roman books was important to the Renaissance? 
   2. What aspects of humanism and classicism can you see in the painting ‘Delivery of Keys’?
   3. Why can the 'Mona Lisa' be seen as an example of humanism, perspective and the natural world within the arts?
2. Discuss - Do you think developments in the arts would affect everyone? Which groups in society were likely to experience these changes?

Activity 5 - How did Renaissance art differ?

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Activity Tasks

1. Compare - Match the Renaissance images to the medieval images which show the same subject.
2. Contrast - Take one pair and describe the differences between the medieval image and the Renaissance image.
3. Watch - For homework this week, watch this video on Leonardo Da Vinci and this one on Michaelangelo. Make note on key details from their lives.

Further Reading

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​STANDARD READING

1. History: Renaissance Art for Kids. (2020). Ducksters.Com.

INTERMEDIATE READING

1. How Did the Ideas of the Renaissance Spread? (2018). History Crunch - History Articles, Summaries, Biographies, Resources and More.

ADVANCED READING

1. The British Library. (2017). Key features of Renaissance culture. The British Library.

FURTHER WATCHING

1. Sims, P. (2019). humanism and classicism [YouTube Video].
2. Sims, P. (2019). renaissance nature and perspective [YouTube Video].

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