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Middle ages simulations for homeschool
Create Your Own Medieval Manor: Map Simulation
To create a more immersive experience I created this fun simulation to guide students through the different parts of a fief and manor. Anyone can show a canned image of a diagrammed manor. But in this simulation students become a medieval lord or lady and design their own following a realistic storyline. Lots of fun and educational!
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3rd - 8th
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Why did people go on The Crusades in the Middle Ages? INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT
If you're looking for a fun and interactive way for your students to learn why some people went on the Crusades from Europe, this interactive PowerPoint and question sheet. It's based on the idea of 'choose your own adventure' games. They 'time travel' back to Medieval England and find out the reasons why people went on the crusades to Jerusalem. Students have to navigate their way through the presentation making decisions on who they 'speak' to and what they read in order to answer the questi
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3rd - 7th
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Medieval Europe Urban Game Simulation
In 18 rounds, students construct a medieval landscape with manors, guild halls, cathedrals, roads, and many more features that show change over time from a rural to urban economy in the middle ages. Teacher key provided and PowerPoint guide. My students loved this simulation because it was so visually oriented.
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6th - 12th
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Italian Renaissance Marshmallow Activity STEM Challenge
Italian Renaissance Marshmallow ChallengeThe Italian Renaissance Marshmallow Challenge activity is designed to allow student groups of three to four students to interact with their classmates by building a tower or an architectural wonder for their Italian city-state in eighteen minutes out of dry spaghetti noodles, tape, and string. Lastly, the tower needs to hold up the marshmallow at the top of structure. A group “wins” by making the tallest free standing structure that holds up the marshmal
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Renaissance Sampler: By History Wizard
Pick Your Own Path Medieval Silk Road, Mongol Empire, Islam, etc
Need something fun to teach World History during medieval times to your students? This Google Slides Pick Your Own Path story is the perfect lesson that engages students in the time period by traveling on the Silk Road. Students are asked to make decisions that will change their storyline, so students will have different experiences and endings. It comes with Reflection Questions for students to answer at the end of their journey. Also check out my other Pick Your Own Path in Renaissance England
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6th - 10th
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CivSim - A civilization building simulation!
Countless civilizations have existed throughout history. So why are students only exposed to 6 or 7 throughout their middle school experience? Because those handful of civilizations are the ones who built lasting empires! CivSim is a civilization-building simulation designed to help students understand how ancient civilizations either grew to become lasting empires or crumbled and were forever lost to history. Throughout the simulation, students will work collaboratively to try to advance the
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6th - 12th
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Reformation: Inquisition Activity
Reformation: Inquisition ActivityThe objective of this activity is to have students understand the fear, terror, and misunderstanding during the Reformation caused by the Inquisition.This activity will allow students to understand religious intolerance and fear that spread through various parts of Europe during the Reformation. The Inquisition activity is used to create a situation similar to the spread of fear during the Inquisition. All this activity needs is slips of papers with symbols on th
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Reformation Lesson Plan Collection Bundle
Middle Ages: Magna Carta Bundle
These activities and projects make the Magna Carta come to life for your students. There are opportunities to analyze primary sources, connect the Magna Carta to American government, and create their own charter for student rights.
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1. Common Core Standard Based Lesson Plans and Strategies.
2. Readings on English Legal Reforms.
3. Higher Order Guided Reading Questions.
4. A Magna Carta RAFT from King John's perspective.
5. Clauses from the Magna Carta (see resources page for cita
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6th - 10th
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The Great Age of Exploration - The Crusades and Trade with the East! A Play
A great skit to help introduce some of the reasons why there was an Age of Exploration.
During the Crusades, a trade relationship develops between points in the middle east and with some Italian city-states. Of these, Venice benefited the most and will boast the largest market in Europe at this time.
This skit helps explain how this develops in a humorous way. A great lesson starter! Have fun!
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5th - 12th
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Knights of the Middle Ages Bundle
Students will experience what it was actually like to be a knight. This is a true experiential learning activity that simulates a knights training from Page to Squire, then to Knighthood.
This includes:
1. Common Core Standard Based Lesson Plans and Strategies.
2. Becoming a page: Board Game Master.
3. Becoming a page: Religious Instruction.
4. Becoming a page: Working for the Lady of the Manor.
5. Becoming a page: Horse Training and Balancing.
6. Becoming a page: Musical Training.
7. Squire D
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6th - 9th
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What Would You Do? Medieval Monarch Learning Simulation
Have you ever wanted to be king or queen for a day? Chances are your students would want to as well! In this learning simulation students will be presented with a number of realistic and historically relevant decisions medieval monarchs were presented with and a number of options to choose from. They will also get to flex their argumentative and writing skills by explaining why they made the decisions they did. After the class has finished the ten scenarios, organize them into groups of your cho
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5th - 10th
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Crowded Kingdom: A Print-and-Play Strategy Game for 1-50+ Players
In this print-and-play classroom game for 1-50+ players, you will build a medieval kingdom and fill it to the brim with towers, walls, huts, sheep, knights, and, of course, dragons. But build wisely! The more crowded your kingdom becomes the more important every decision becomes. While building walls and towers, you must remember that invading dragons will burn nearby huts to the ground and snack on any sheep within reach. But never fear! Valiant knights posted at just the right spot can slay th
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5th - 12th
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Pick Your Own Path Age of Exploration & Renaissance England
Need something fun to teach Renaissance Elizabethan England and the Age of Exploration to your students? This Google Slides story is the perfect lesson that engages students in this time period. They are forced to make decisions that change their storyline, so students will have different experiences and endings. Students have a chance to sail with Sir Francis Drake, or they can go on a completely separate adventure by working under Queen Elizabeth. This is a work of historical fiction completel
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5th - 7th
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How The Great Age of Exploration Began...Revival of Towns & Trade, A Play
This is one of two skits I use in learning about the origins of the Great Age of Exploration in Europe. The other skit is titled:
The Great Age of Exploration - The Crusades and Trade with the East! A Play. It is also on the TPT site.
***This is a light-hearted and fun way to learn about the revival of towns and trade in Europe in helping bring about the Great Age of Exploration (one day) and the decline of Feudalism. The black death plays a part in this, too.
This is meant to be an enha
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6th - 12th
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Evaluate the Medieval Church: Anti-Semitism, the Crusades and the Inquistion
Hello fellow educators! This presentation is for those World History teachers who need content and investigative lessons on the power of the Catholic Church during the late Middle Ages. It conforms to new state standards across the country and the new AP Modern World History curriculum (1200 CE - Present), which stresses teaching this particular topic for the AP Exam. It contains several slides featuring recommended essential questions, warm ups, brief lecture notes and three mini-lessons/simula
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Silk Road Activity Mapping a journey
Students travel on the Silk Road to explore the known and unknown world of the 13th century. This lesson, the second in a full unit on the Silk Road, includes geography skills and writing. It appeals to visual and kinesthetic learners with its variety of activities.Students practice map skills, make medallions that represent those that Kublai Khan had travelers carry for safe passage, and develop their own maps and creatures that might exist in the unknown world similar to the beliefs of the
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5th - 8th
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Live Action Role Playing Rulebook for 5th edition D&D
LARPing is a great add on for kids who need a more active or hands-on approach to many subjects. There are aspects of math, history, creative thinking, English, memorizatiSet up a LARP club as an extra curricular.on, and many other subjects. This book has the rules for beginning players of fighters, rogues, mages and clerics with combat, spells and more. Kids take on the roles of heroes completing a quest or take on the role of villains trying to stop them or townspeople waiting to be rescued o
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Syncretism of Asian World Religions
Hello fellow educators! This presentation is for those World History teachers who need a hard-to-find content on the topic of Syncretism of World Religions during the late Middle Ages. It conforms to new state standards across the country and the new AP Modern World History curriculum (1200 CE - Present), which stresses teaching this particular topic for the AP Exam. It contains several slides featuring recommended essential questions, warm ups, brief lecture notes and an interactive activity wh
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Late Medieval Innovations That Changed the World!
Hello fellow educators! This presentation is for those World History teachers who need content and investigative lessons on late medieval innovations and inventions. It conforms to new state standards across the country and the new AP Modern World History curriculum (1200 CE - Present), which stresses teaching this particular topic for the AP Exam. It contains several slides featuring recommended essential questions, warm ups, brief lecture notes, a mini problem-based learning activity in which
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Free Sample: Medieval Urban Game Simulation
Students draw a map of a medieval landscape that changes over time from a rural to urban economy between the early to late middle ages – using a teacher-directed script and PowerPoint guide. THE ENTIRE LESSON AND MATERIALS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE.
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6th - 12th
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