A Self-Guided Tour through History The Renaissance A Self-Guided Tour through History

What We Did! Teaching about the Renaissance through Art History Student-centered learning versus teacher-centered Learning through multiple modalities Videos Readings Paintings Discussion Question responses Students worked in groups to complete this activity

Pre-Teaching the Renaissance New technology Art Humanism Education “Re-birth” in Europe’s culture

Activity Students “traveled” around the classroom to different stations Each station was a different country featuring a different person, art form, or innovation from the time period Italy Michelangelo Leonardo da Vinci Germany Albrecht Durer Netherlands Pieter Bruegel the Elder England William Shakespeare The Tudors--Henry VIII and Elizabeth I

Activity Each station included a variety of sources Videos readings/articles Art work Students worked as a group to analyze the information When students completed a station, they went to a “terminal” in the middle of the room to discuss with either Mackenzi or Brittni When the discussion was over, we would stamp their passports and send them to the next station

Pieter Bruegel the Elder “The Triumph of Death”