Dawn+Brimhall's+Lesson+plan


 * Instructor Name:** Dawn Brimhall

**Subject:** World History

**Grade Level:** 10th Grade.

**Lesson Plan:** Art, Architecture, and the Humanities before and after the Renaissance.

**Utah State Core:** Standard 4: Students will understand the influence of revolution and social change in the transition from early modern to contemporary societies.

**Objective** 1: Assess the importance of intellectual and cultural change on early modern society. a. Compare the “rebirth” of European culture during the Renaissance with the flowering Chinese culture of the Ming dynasty; i.e., literature, art, architecture, the humanities

**Anticipatory set:** Show various pictures on a slideshow from various time periods. Ask the students to identify which time period each picture comes from. (Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Enlightenment.) It is easy to get these pictures from Google images or an Art History textbook.

**Explanation of Objective:** Explain that we will be focusing on viewing the art and architecture of Europe for the day using Google earth. Begin with a brief overview lecture on period art. Then, show them in a demonstration how to take a tour and then show them how to research online information about various sites.

**Brief lecture on art and architecture before activity.**

The Evolution of what humans find important is manifest in the art, artifacts, buildings and writings that are left behind. Thus historians can see that in the Medieval period people emphasized piety (religion) instead of nature and how things truly look. People of the Renaissance focused on nature as the ideal, taking their ideas from the Greeks and Romans who came before them. Baroque art focused on transcending nature or going beyond nature and thus their art was less serene.

Art and Architecture rapidly changed starting in 1300, which in many ways shows the rapid changes happening in the world at the time. This was the time of new ideas such as the Heliocentric theory instead of a geocentric theory, it was the beginning of a reformation in religion, and also a focus on nature as had not been seen since the Greco-Roman era. New economic systems began to emerge and many wars were fought over these new ideas. **Activity with technology: Modeling**

I will begin by loading on Google earth and typing in a location. (Tintern Abbey, located in the Wye valley near the border of Wales and England.)

As a class we will then tour the 3D space and then look at pictures of the place in real life. We then will search in Google for information about this place to find out the time period it was built and then decide where it best fits in for art time periods.

**Check for Understanding:**

Ask if the students have any questions about the virtual tour. (In the classroom you will be the one giving the tour and showing them how. )

**Do it yourself assignment:**

Choose 3 places from the list, make sure they are in different countries. Research these places on Google and then go find them on Google Earth by typing in their name. Explore the place and then write a one or two page paper explaining the history and significance of the 3 places you viewed. You will also describe what the places look like and how they are different from each other.

 v Vatican Church (Look at the architecture)  v Westminster Abbey  v Chartres Cathedral  v Basilica di San Vitale  v Neuschwanstein Castle  v Monasterio de El Escorial

**Summary:** End by comparing the various places that people have viewed. If there is extra time, take them to China using Google Earth and have them view some examples of Ming architecture.

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Helpful Blog I followed: http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com

I found it to be a very helpful blog because it gave very useful technological links to things such as online textbooks and various maps and videos that were very helpful to me as a Social Studies teacher.