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

2. 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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Pieter Bruegel the Elder “The Triumph of Death”