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Middle Ages Word Search
In this social studies worksheet, students find the words that are depicting the middle ages and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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The Middle Ages: A Contract Unit
Learners explore the Middle Ages. For this Middle Ages lesson, students participate in classroom activities regarding the feudal system, Charlemagne, the process to become a knight, castles, daily life, and the Crusades.
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Social Studies: Medieval and Contemporary Class Structures
Students discuss and compare contemporary class systems with those of the Middle Ages. They explore Websites on HyperStudio stack and review art and music of the Middle Ages. In groups, students design and draw castles reflecting manor...
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The Late Middle Ages (850 to 1492 A. D.)
Learners discuss what roles the clergy, nobles and peasants played during the late Middle Ages. They explain what led to the growth of trade and towns in Western Europe. Ultimately, students describe how kings in Western Europe built...
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On a Pilgrimage
Sixth graders engage in a variety of learning experiences surrounding the study of the Middle Ages. They construct a map of Europe, create a graphic organizer for the hierarchy of feudalism, design their own family crest, and write their...
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Middle Ages
In this social studies worksheet, students find the words that are associated with the middle ages and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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World History People Review
Who's who in World History? Help your historians keep track of major figures with this World History People Review, where young scholars match 96 world figures to the appropriate descriptions. The matching questions are grouped by...
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The Quest
Students explore the many ways spirituality may be practiced. They evaluate the causes and consequences of differing world views and the policy of multiculturalism and its implication for Canada. They create personal symbols for...
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The Early Middle Ages
The Middle Ages provide a variety of interesting ways for students to study history.
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Back in Time - Next Stop the Middle Ages
Students are introduced to the Middle Ages through Powerpoint presentations and books. During the presentations students work on various reading skills by reading made up papers about the Middle Ages detailing certain events in history.
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Feudalism
Students have tournaments in teams after learning information about The Middle Ages. In this Middle Ages lesson plan, students learn that tournaments are mock battles, but that they will have these battles by answering questions in teams...
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The Roman Empire
Fourth graders identify the reasons behind the fall of the Roman Empire and describe the changes that occurred after the fall of the Roman Empire.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Letter From the Sixth Crusade, 1249
This site contains a translation of a letter which was written during the Sixth Crusade in 1249.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Technology and Cultural Transfers During the Crusades
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of the technology and cultural transfers that occurred during the Crusades.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: State Building: Technology and Cultural Transfers During the Crusades
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of the influence of Islam on technology and cultural transfers that occurred during the Crusades...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Evolution of Crusader Privileges
This site from Fardham University gives information on The "Crusade". Many of the characteristics of the Crusade - the vow, taking the cross, etc. - evolved over time. This selection of texts shows the evolution of the religious legal...
Georgetown University
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
This site from Georgetown University offers a searchable collection of resources about a wide variety of topics relating to the Medieval Period.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Anna Comena: The Alexiad
Click here to read excerpts from the "Alexiad", a historical account written by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexius I, that chronicles the arrival of the first Crusaders.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: The Fourth Crusade 1204
Fordham University provides a collection of writings about the crusade, covering the Fourth Crusade from its initial events to its conclusion.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade
Fordham University provides this site with information about Geoffrey de Villehardouin's chronicle of the Fourth Crusade, including the conquest of Constantinople.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: The German Crusade, 1197
This Fordham University site is a primary source document dealing with this one aspect of the events of the Third Crusade.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Crusade of St. Louis
This site offers detailed information on the Sixth Crusade.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: William of Tyre: Latin Disarray
This is a primary source document written by William of Tyre tracing the political problems surrounding Christianity's efforts to regain the Holy Land, at the time of the Third Crusade.
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Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Letter From the East to the Master of Hospitallers
This is a primary source document, written by Ansbert, detailing the events in and around Jerusalem, during the Third Crusade.