Renaissance Web Quest
Directions: Use the web addresses from each section to answer the questions in that section. Place your answers in Google Docs. Then share your answers with me when you finished.
There are 4 websites you must visit.
WEBSITE #1: Renaissance History:
Directions: Use the web addresses from each section to answer the questions in that section. Place your answers in Google Docs. Then share your answers with me when you finished.
There are 4 websites you must visit.
WEBSITE #1: Renaissance History:
- What is the Renaissance?
- What are the Dark Ages?
- What is Humanism?
- What is the importance of the Medici family?
WEBSITE #2: http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/main/michelangelo.html
- What was Michelangelo’s true love?
- Instead of the original 12 figures of the apostles that the pope had suggested for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, how many did Michelangelo paint?
WEBSITE #3 http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/instrumt.html
- Click on Renaissance Instruments. Click on Harpsichord. Look at the picture. What modern instrument does it look like?
WEBSITE #4 http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo
Click on Leonardo: Right to Left.
Click on Leonardo: Right to Left.
- What type of writing did he use?
- Explain Leonardo's new way of thinking.
- List 5 of Leonardo's simple machines.