Renaissance

Workshop Activities

• Craft – Weaving

• Key Points – Who Am I? - Game to discover people of the Renaissance

• Collaborative – Printing Press – Create a newspaper about the Renaissance

• Writing – Acrostic Poetry

• Math/Logic - How Many Years? Solve for the number of years since key events of the Renaissance

• Genius Principle – Multiple Intelligences

• Big Activity – Renaissance Food

• Movement - Calcio Fiorentino

Disneyland Meetup

• Which princesses were from the Renaissance?

• Compare key figures of the Renaissance to today's innovators

• Explore the Renaissance of Disney movies

Minecraft Class

• Gutenberg's printing press – students typeset a sentence

• Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment

• The solar system during the Renaissance

• Renaissance battle

• Build challenge: Renaissance inventions or more typesetting

Upcoming Activities

• 11/4 Meetup at Disneyland

• 11/11 OCMA (register by 10/4)

Fireworks

Read through the fireworks and choose five that you think might interest your child. Allow him or her to select 1-3 of them.

• Write an historical fiction story set in Renaissance times.

• Go to a Renaissance Fair.

• Visit the International Printing Museum.

• Explore the Renaissance:

• http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/

• http://www.cln.org/themes/renaissance.html

• Build a Castle from Blocks or Legos.

• What music was popular in the Renaissance? Listen to a few different songs. How do these song compare to popular music today?

• Suppose you lived during the Renaissance. Describe how your life would be different.

• What would a “Renaissance person” in our day be like? What would this person know about or do? If you could become a Renaissance in these days, what would you know and do?

• Write some newspaper headlines that might have been in the paper during the Renaissance.

• Make a timeline that illustrates the events of your own life.

• Using a blank map of the world, draw the voyages that the explorers went on. Include the dates.