Middle Ages
From geographyalltheway
Lesson Plans
Online Resources
Diigo Bookmarks - middle-ages: http://www.diigo.com/user/geogalot/middle-ages
Middle Ages timeline: http://www.dipity.com/richardallaway/The-Middle-Ages > transfer to http://www.preceden.com/
MYP ATLAS Input
Key Question
- What was life like for people in the Middle Ages?
AOIs
- Human Ingenuity - The creation of man-made structures and devices.
- Health and Social Education - To understand how the treatment of illnesses effected how people conducted their daily lives.
Significant Concepts
- Explore cultures, Governments, Technology, and Individuals during the medieval time period.
- Particular focus on aspects of feudalism, manorialism, knighthood, and castles
- Also, mini units on the Viking era and feudal Japan and the Samurai
- Compare and contrast men of the warrior class within different cultures
Learning Experiences and Teaching Strategies
- Field trip to French Medieval town and castle
- Interactive simulation of European feudal society
- Castle building
- Peasant, Vassal, Lord interviews
- Knighthood training
- Read, discuss, and create viking sagas
