Renaissance Mystery Party Gallery Walk - Fun Knives Out Style Detective Activity
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Description
In this Knives-Out-Style renaissance-detective-lesson students solve a crime while learning about the accomplishments of key renaissance figures! This renaissance mystery party activity is engaging, fun, and academic.
Setting the stage: Billionaire Ronald Jenkins has a lavash Hollywood A-list party with a renaissance dress-up theme. The party is complete with a Da Vinci painting borrowed from the Vatican. In a strike of lightning, the lights dimmed, and the painting went missing! The student's mission is to learn about the key figures present at the party to uncover clues about the thief!
Here’s what’s included:
- Teacher instructions
- 12 Gallery Walk visuals covering key renaissance people including Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Queen Isabella, Cosimo De Medici, Andreas Vesilius, Petrarch, Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth, Dante, Brunelleschi, Raphael, and Gutenburg
- A Graphic Organizer for students to complete during the Gallery Walk
- A Google Form that has students recall what they learned, read primary sources from the renaissance, and match artwork to the artist.
- A ransom note that reveals the thief through some deductive sleuthing!
This easy-to-run paired lesson had my students hooked and it's easy to grade.
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Our World History Curriculum, including Ancient History lessons and Medieval History lessons, are key-concept based, focussing on the “big six” key concepts for social science, often referred to as GRAPES. By learning World History with key concepts as a filter, students will become familiar with the crucial attributes that have allowed ancient and medieval civilizations to prosper. Also, students will build a framework, scaffolding future learning with the key concepts that will be repeated throughout their academic careers.
Each unit comes with notes, graphic organizers, and review worksheets that have the GRAPES key concepts in mind:
- G= Geography
- R= Religion
- A= Achievements
- P= Politics/Government/Leadership
- E= Economy
- S= Social Classes
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❤️❤️❤️About Mr. and Mrs. P, the teachers behind Instructomania:
We are a Middle School teacher duo with over 40 years of experience in the Middle School classroom! We strive to create history and science lesson plans that inspire teachers and engage students, focusing on history activities for sixth, seventh and eighth grade. Our Ancient History and Medieval History curricula includes no prep worksheets and Common Core lessons that have been tested and polished in the classroom. World History activities are created with visually rich graphic organizer worksheets and fun thematic assignments. We hope you and your students love our products as much as we did making and using them in our Middle School classes!
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