Target Audience: 8th Grade World History
Standards:
6.2.12.D.2.a Determine the factors that led to the Renaissance and the impact on the arts.
6.2.12.D.2.d Analyze the impact of new intellectual, philosophical, and scientific ideas on how humans viewed themselves and how they viewed their physical and spiritual worlds.
6.2.12.D.2.c Justify how innovations from Asian and Islamic civilizations, as well as from ancient Greek and Roman culture, laid the foundation for the Renaissance.
Objective: Students will identify Northern Renaissance values in artwork by viewing and analyzing different pieces of artwork
Essential Question: How did cultural diffusion make the Renaissance a period of both continuity and change?
Enduring Understandings: The Renaissance was a period of transition in which cultural diffusion influenced the development of new ideas and innovations.
With technology, students explained how continuity and change was seen in the Italian and Northern Renaissance, through completing a "Thinklink" presentation.
Assessment: Thinglink presentation
To the right is a screenshot of the sample "Thinglink" presentation. By using "Thinglink" it transforms the education in many ways:
It allows students to interact with the content. Students can click on the different tags and read more, visit websites, listen to audio, look at more pictures.
By using visualization techniques embedded in the picture it allows students who are having trouble focusing and reading to better engage with the content.
Students can explore each others "Thinglink" presentations and interact with the media to learn more.
To help students learn how to use "Thinglink," they can CLICK HERE to access a step by step guide to using the website.