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High school middle ages games under $5
Feudalism and Manorialism Simulation
Students will conduct an in-class simulation that mirrors the organization and responsibilities of medieval society. Pupils will assume the roles of lords, knights, and serfs, and be required to perform certain tasks that highlight the societal expectations of these classes. Privileges, rewards, and restrictions granted during the simulation will mimic feudal life and reveal the inequalities inherent in manorialism. Total class time needed is one period.Materials Needed:1) You will need 20-30 sh
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in:Â World History I Bundle
Crusades Fun Class Game Power Point Driven
This game is creative and easy to run. My students gave it a thumbs up!!! The winners of the game get to choose a number and his/her destiny as a crusader is displayed for the class. Each click made on the PowerPoint game board shows another question until students make it to Jerusalem.This fits perfectly with the Crusades curriculum outline also posted and the crusades graphic organizer also posted. _____________________________________________________________________________________***SAVE BIG
Grades:
5th - 10th
Renaissance Super Heroes Close Reading,Trading Card & Class Competition
This is fun and easy to run! Students select four Renaissance Super Heroes to read about from the sixteen close reading cards included:
✎ Michelangelo
✎ Leonardo Da Vinci
✎ Petrarch
✎ Queen Isabella I
✎ Queen Elizabeth I
✎ Andreas Vesalius
✎ Durer
✎ Titian
✎ Copernicus
✎ Cosimo De Medici
✎ Cervantes
✎ Gutenberg
✎ Shakespeare
✎ Marco Polo
After reading, the students create four trading cards using a fun trading card template provided. Students share their cards with a group and play an interact
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5th - 9th
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Tang & Song Dynasty What's Your Destiny Close Reading & Fun Comprehension Game
What a fun way to learn about the leadership, economy, and social classes in Medieval China during the Tang and Song Dynasties. My students love this activity. First, students read a two-page close reading about life and changes in government during the Tang and Song Dynasties. The reading includes a primary source excerpt and visual for students to analyze. Then, students get into groups and compete against each other in a displayed class game board in Google Slides or PowerPoint. Each advancin
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5th - 9th
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Middle Ages Feudalism Game Social Class Activity
Middle Ages Feudalism GameUse this game to teach students about the different social classes and inequalities of the Middle Ages.Students will be assigned roles, complete small tasks, be evaluated, and receive payment for their task completion. Activity wraps up by totaling and comparing income received by each social status. Includes wrap-up questions for culmination of activity.Resource IncludesGame DirectionsStudent Review TasksCoins for GameTeacher Suggestions for UseContent Topics Covered
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6th - 11th
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Daily Warmups & Bell Ringers for World History! On This Day History: SEPTEMBER!
Daily Warmups & Bell Ringers for World History! On This Day History: SEPTEMBER!In this daily warmup, daily trivia, and bell ringer product for World History, you receive 30 daily warmups for the month of SEPTEMBER! Each short activity is designed to start class each day, and each warmup is focused on a historical event that happened on each day during the month of September! Questions are focused mainly on topics studied during early and modern World History courses. While all questions a
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5th - 10th
Renaissance Mystery Party Gallery Walk - Fun Knives Out Style Detective Activity
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 mi
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6th - 10th
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Middle Ages Simulation: A Three -Event Medieval Tournament in Your Classroom
A Three Event Medieval Tournament
INTRODUCTION: Medieval Knights were trained from boyhood to develop the skills necessary to be warriors. They needed to know how to fight on horses with a lance, how to use a sword, and how to shoot a bow and arrow. Tournaments were held to allow Knights the chance to practice and show off their abilities in these three skills necessary to be a good Knight.
In this classroom tournament they will exhibit their skill in JOUSTING (fighting with a lance),
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6th - 12th
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Simulation: A Traveler's Guide to the Crusades
This simulation is an easy, low-prep activity to engage students in what Crusaders would have experienced journeying to the Holy Lands!Students take on the perspective of a Crusader and must make decisions to try and make it to the Holy Land in time to fight! Spark their creativity by encouraging them to come up with hashtags, mentions, and tweets about their experience!Simulations can be such fun and meaningful activities, but they often take a lot of work and preparation to set up, which is wh
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6th - 9th
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Feudalism Game and Classroom Simulation
Use this game to teach your students first hand about the unfairness of feudalism and taxation. This slideshow includes the game rules, examples, and a brief history lesson. This is a fun activity that lets the students use their imaginations and gets the teacher involved too!
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6th - 9th
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Medieval Guilds Simulation
Research shows that students only remember 10% of what they read, 20% of what they hear, and 90% of what they say and do! This activity will allow your students to experience the challenges of trade in medieval Europe and explore the changes brought forth by the emergence of guilds in a way that is engaging and memorable.
After completion of this activity students will be able to explain how guilds changed trade in medieval Europe.
Students will also understand the following:
Guilds are busine
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6th - 10th
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West Africa Empires What's Your Destiny Close Reading & Fun Comprehension Game
What a fun way to learn about the leadership, economy, and social classes in the West African Empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai! My students love this activity. First, students read a two-page West African Kingdoms close reading that includes primary source excerpts from Mansa Musa. Then, students get into groups and compete against each other in a displayed class game board in Google Slides or PowerPoint. Each advancing slide has one of ten comprehension questions about the social class infor
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5th - 9th
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Feudal Europe What's Your Destiny Close Reading & Fun Comprehension Game
What a fun way to learn about the feudal social classes during the Middle Ages in Europe! My students love this feudalism activity. First, students read a two-page Medieval European social classes close reading that includes primary source excerpts about feudal life and the importance of the church. Then, students get into groups and compete against each other in a displayed class game board in Google Slides or PowerPoint. Each advancing slide has one of ten comprehension questions about the soc
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5th - 9th
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The Game of Medieval LIFE - Educational Game Board
This is a game board I developed to teach students about life in feudal Europe during the Medieval Era. The game works best with groups of 4-7 players. The game is designed to be enjoyable, funny, and historically accurate to life for different classes in Medieval Europe. It features spaces referencing daily life, but also major historical events of the era, including things like the Crusades, the Black Death, peasant revolts, and the Magna Carta. Some favorite game spaces of my students include
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6th - 9th
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Islam or Arabia What's Your Destiny Close Reading & Fun Comprehension Game
What a fun way to learn about the leadership, economy, and social classes in the Arabian Peninsula before and after Muhammad. My students love this activity. First, students read a two-page close reading about life in the Medieval Arabian Peninsula and the beginning of Islam. The reading includes a primary source excerpt from the Koran and oasis visuals. Then, students get into groups and compete against each other in a displayed class game board in Google Slides or PowerPoint. Each advancing sl
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5th - 9th
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Mongols or Yuan What's Your Destiny Close Reading & Fun Comprehension Game
What a fun way to learn about the leadership, economy, and social classes in the Yuan or Mongol Dynasty. My students love this activity. First, students read a two-page close reading about life in Mongol China. The reading includes a primary source excerpt and visual for students to analyze. Then, students get into groups and compete against each other in a displayed class game board in Google Slides or PowerPoint. Each advancing slide has one of ten comprehension questions about the social clas
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5th - 9th
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Middle Ages Crossword Puzzle Review
Middle Ages Crossword Puzzle Review includes - 31 Terms and 31 clues plus word bank. Crossword covers the Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages and the Late Middle Ages. This is a perfect activity for reviewing before a test, as homework or for substitute plans. This includes two puzzles, one with a word bank and one without. Save money! Get this resource along with the entire unit, including PowerPoints, warmups, worksheets, a video guide, review Kahoot!, crossword review, assessment and lesson p
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7th - 12th
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Simulation: Surviving Life in the Middle Ages
This simulation is an easy, low-prep activity to engage students in what life was like during the Middle Ages! Students take on the perspective of a new Lord or Lady of the Manor and tweet about their experiences as they run their manor and encounter various challenges! Spark their creativity by encouraging them to come up with hashtags, mentions, and tweets about their experience!Simulations can be such fun and meaningful activities, but they often take a lot of work and preparation to set up,
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6th - 9th
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Medieval Japan What's Your Destiny Close Reading & Fun Comprehension Game
What a fun way to learn about the leadership, economy, and social classes in Medieval Feudal Japan. My students love this activity. First, students read a two-page close reading about life in feudal Japan. The reading includes a primary source excerpt and visual for students to analyze. Then, students get into groups and compete against each other in a displayed class game board in Google Slides or PowerPoint. Each advancing slide has one of ten comprehension questions about the social class inf
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5th - 9th
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The Americas What's Your Destiny Close Reading & Fun Comprehension Game
What a fun way to compare and contrast the social classes of the Aztec, Maya and Inca Empires! My students love this fun civilizations of the Americas activity. First, students read a two-page Aztec, Maya and Inca social classes close reading that includes primary source excerpts. Then, students get into groups and compete against each other in a displayed class game board in Google Slides or PowerPoint. Each advancing slide has one of twelve comprehension questions about the social class inform
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5th - 9th
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Chess: Glimpses of the Middle Ages
Bring feudalism and the Middle Ages closer to home with this research and analysis activity regarding the board game "Chess". Students will analyze the game play, board set up and rules of the game of chess to conduct inductive analysis regarding what each piece may tell us about the power structure of the middle ages. An excellent preview or supplemental activity perfect for kick starting a week on a Monday or wrapping up a long week on a Friday. I've used this for many years with my world
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6th - 12th
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Escape Room: Castles - Middle-Ages / Medieval - 6 'Rooms' of Codes & Riddles
Six Puzzles Escape RoomThis file contains an escape room with six different cipher puzzles. Students will reinforce their knowledge of a few parts of castles, learning some basic information regarding each of the rooms (The Barbican, The Bailey, The Throne Room, The Keep, The Great Hall, & The Dungeon) while they engage in the material. This escape room, though Castle Themed, is more about educational entertainment. Each of the rooms has a riddle, which will require students to push their re
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6th - 9th
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Middle Ages Major Events Role Cards Activity
This Middle Ages Major Event Role Cards Activity will let students investigate the lives of Europeans as they lived, worked, and navigated their way through the major events of the Medieval Age.Included are 6 short scenarios, with 2+ roles each, that cover Legal Reforms in England, The Magna Carta, The Bubonic Plague, The Hundred Years War, The Crusades, and more! Students further research, rewrite script or performance, and act out the roles to review content over the events or to introduce t
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6th - 11th
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Daily Warmups & Bell Ringers for World History! On This Day in History: NOVEMBER
Daily Warmups & Bell Ringers for World History! On This Day in History: NOVEMBERIn this daily warmup, daily trivia, and bell ringer product for World History, you receive 30 daily warmups for the month of NOVEMBER! Each short activity is designed to start class each day, and each warmup is focused on a historical event that happened on each day during the month of NOVEMBER! Questions are focused mainly on topics studied during early and modern World History courses. While all questions ar
Grades:
5th - 12th
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