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.