Renaissance Unit Bundle : Print & Digital Resources World History Activities

With over 320 pages divided into 8 easy-to-follow subfolders, you’ll have all of the Renaissance lesson plans, activities, reading passages, guided notes with worksheets, & assessments you’ll need to teach like a superhero!

In this comprehensive Renaissance History activities bundle students will explore and review the big idea six key concepts (GRAPES). Plus, all of our curriculum units have embedded student accountability with assessments at each step, so progress is data-driven.

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Like all of our Medieval History bundles, the Renaissance unit has a common flow created to reduce anxiety for you and your students throughout the year! We know that teachers love no prep history activities and students need structure and accountability to succeed; our units are taught with a common sequence, complete with mini-assessments along the way.

Here’s what’s included, organized in 8 sequenced printable subfolders AND on a linked Google-ready table of contents for easy access:

1.⚡RENAISSANCE INVESTIGATION INTRODUCTION LESSON SUBFOLDER- 

This lesson is a great introduction and includes a summative activity. Students analyze visuals, primary source excerpts, and map to make predictions about the content they will learn about.

2.⚡ITALY (RENAISSANCE) GEOGRAPHY SUBFOLDER-

This bundle includes SEVEN geography lesson choices for both student-centered learning and direct instruction. Now it includes a geography quiz!

3.⚡RENAISSANCE VOCABULARY SUBFOLDER- Includes three assignment vocabulary options, review games, and a quiz. Also, includes Quizlet links for online learning practice with the same words and definitions!

4. ⚡NOTES, READINGS, and GRAPHIC ORGANIZER SUBFOLDER-

Includes everything you need to teach the content via readings, activities, or direct instruction. Complete with a content quiz! 

1. HISTORICAL SNAPSHOT CLOSE READING SET- This Italian Renaissance close reading set includes an annotation guide, worksheet, and graphic organizer based on the big ideas of social science. Now includes a comprehension quiz and answer key!
2. RENAISSANCE POWERPOINT NOTES, and two-page outline PRINTABLE NOTES. The graphic organizer and PowerPoint can be used interchangeably!
3. STUDENT-CENTERED READING STATIONS- Reading stations are organized by key concepts for social science and have a worksheet or folding graphic organizer option.

5. ⚡ACTIVITIES SUBFOLDER- Includes diverse, interactive, student-centered activities, worksheets, and close readings from which teachers can pick and choose based on personal style and class needs.

1. Da Vinci Reading and Common Core Writing Assignment-Students decide if Leonardo Da Vinci is worthy of his popular historian title "Renaissance Man"
2. Art Explosion! Renaissance, Medieval or Classical Period Art Comparison- In this activity, students learn the differences between these three periods of art and then analyze different art pieces and visit a virtual museum. This lesson has tons of options!
3. Renaissance SuperHero Trading Card Activity- Includes a PowerPoint-driven trading card game competition and sixteen Renaissance SuperHero reading cards!
4. Printable Renaissance Newspaper Project- Includes templates, examples, and a rubric.
5. Gutenberg Printing Press Reading and Lesson- Includes a close reading, worksheet, and answer key!
6. Working with Renaissance Quotes- Includes famous Renaissance quotes and 5 assignment options!
7. Greetings from the birthplace of the Renaissance: A Claim evidence reasoning writing activity with writing guides.
8. Marco Polo Facebook Page Activity
9. What's Your Destiny? -Close reading and fun comprehension game. Students read and compete on a displayed class game board. Winning students choose a fictitious destiny that is shared with the class!
10. The Renaissance iPad App Graphic Organizer
11. Printable IPad graphic organizer extension activity worksheet
12. Jingle Mingle Fun Review Interactive - Students mingle about the room finding partners. When the music stops, students address essential learning questions together
13. Renaissance People PowerPoint or Stations Activity- Students learn about key people in the renaissance and take a quiz or do a matching assignment.
14. Doodle World History Summary Activity- Fun creative note-taking graphic organizer that allows students to detail the 6 key "big idea" concepts.
15. History’s Mysteries- Renaissance Zombies? Close reading and claim, evidence, reasoning activity
16. Renaissance DBQ Activity or Assessment- Students analyze primary and secondary source documents and write an information Perfect Paragraph with writing guides included. 
17. Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Resource Pack

6.⚡1. DAILY SKILL-BASED TEXT ANALYSIS WARM-UPS/ BELLRINGERS– Students make inferences and predictions from the text, choose the best evidence to support a claim, cite sources, paraphrase and learn to write strong commentary in these daily skill-based mini-lessons and practice slides.

2. Exit Tickets- Over 40 formats from which to choose! Students support a claim with evidence, Write what they learned or formulate content questions! This is a great informal daily summary.

7.⚡BIG IDEAS- KEY CONCEPTS FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE SUBFOLDER -

Includes 10 activities that work perfectly with interactive notebooks!  Each unit comes with a key concepts introductions PowerPoint and graphic organizer, My World- Big Ideas Activity, Folding graphic Organizer, The Biggest Idea Unit Summary Activity, Big Idea Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Writing Guides, Linking the Big Ideas Analysis Activity, Key Concept Storyboard, Key Concepts Foldable Mini-Packet of Resources and a Key Concepts Field Report Summary Activity.

8. ⚡STUDY GUIDES, KEY CONCEPT REVIEW, & TEST SUBFOLDER- Each unit comes with a study guide that has students pre-read and define important vocabulary and make meaning of text excerpts that they will also see on the skill-based test! This helps reduce test anxiety and while accomplishing the same skill-based reading comprehension goal. Check out the multiple-choice editable Common Core test. Students read excerpts, support claims with evidence!

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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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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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