Renaissance revision games

View the top 75 activities here. You are students of the great scientist galileo in Padua, Italy. You have all been put in jail by the church for insisting that the earth goes round the sun! You will all taken away to be executed in 45 minutes - unless you can find the key to escape! The location of the key is provided in the coded message in the middle of the room".

An introductory worksheet to get students thinking about Renaissance changes the arts and the sciences. A challenging lesson, but students often get a great deal from it, especially if they have some understanding of the Reformation by this point. Additional Materials: Pictures of the Siege Perhaps the main reason why the Renaissance took off in Italy - this activity gets the narrative across in an engaging way.

Each of these tasks is progressively more challenging and they can be graded accordingly. A worksheet to accompany an excellent video documentary on this topic ideal as a homework activity; link to video provided within the worksheet. A paper based running dictation exercise working on the same basis as the Siege of Constantinople exericse.

If you are unfamiliar with the format of the game, click here for instructions. View more. ActiveHistory is the work of full-time history teacher Russel Tarr. Multimedia ActiveHistory's Top 75 Activities! With so many choices for people to consider, how did they decide what to do? This simulation provides a depth of understanding of the variety of options available.

It smashes the myth that everything was based on the works of Galen. Medieval Medicine Medieval Medicine. An aid for researching a variety of aspects of medical practice and beliefs during the Middle Ages. Designed to develop learners revision skills whilst building up their knowledge and understanding of developments in the early islamic empire.

Assessment for learning activity using a number of sources. Medicine in the Renaissance Medicine in the Renaissance. The pack contains an overview of the main characteristics of the period and the way in which Medicine developed at the time.

William Harvey William Harvey. Andreas Vesalius Andreas Vesalius. Background information and questions to check knowledge. Research and revision grids: the Renaissance Research and revision grids: the Renaissance Research grids and timeline tasks for the Renaissance period. The Great Plague, an Investigation. Data rich investigation into the spread of the Great Plague of Makes use of contemporary accounts, data and illustrations.

Edward Jenner: Vaccinations and Smallpox. How did Edward Jenner discover a vaccine against the deadly disease Smallpox? How did people react to the idea of vaccination? Find out here. Public Health or Pasteur? Outline of a lesson with links to external resources source material and audio visual. Easy to adapt for your own classroom. How safe were 19th century hospitals? An investigation making use of a selection of external resources. Public Health through the ages Public Health through the ages.

An active learning lesson written with Adam Henson and myself. Edited by Ian Dawson and hosted externally on his site. Information sheet with accompanying literacy tasks. Flash Card Revision Activity.

A fun but proven way of improving recall of knowledge. Resource by Roy Huggins. By Roy Huggins. Medicine Through Time Lessons — currently being developed , live to give access to resources and links as they are added.

What were your chances of a long life if you were born in ? How far did Ancient Medical ideas continue to be used in the Medieval World? What did people believe caused the Black Death? How much did medicine change between and ? Medical problems of the 19th Century. Was taking medicine actually going to make you ill in the 19th century?

What factors enabled the understanding of germs and the spread of disease? Why did life expectancy increase in the twentieth century? What changed when the NHS started? Is Alternative Medicine really a viable alternative? Advances in Medical Technology in the 20th Century — Lesson. Audio-visual materials that I have come across or use are listed on this page. Public Health and housing. Online activities, external link An excellent series of 5 source based tasks created by the Manuscripts and specials collections team at the University of Nottingham.

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