Use level : 5th grade

Time: Early New Year

Assignment: 5th grade Team study and Individual Project

Division: Lower School Reynolds Library Research Guide

From the Roxburghe Ballads. University of Victoria Library.

Procedure: 5^th grade students in different groups in their classrooms are studying the Renaissance. In social studies, students study the European rebirth of learning, using their textbook, Pearson Learning Core Knowledge History and Geography, edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., 2002. All this activity results in an individual biographical project, a Renaissance Dinner Project, and culminates at the Renaissance Banquet. This pathfinder serves to guide and support this subject study and project completion.

Library Print Sources:

Subject Headings

General:

Renaissance

Renaissance, European

Renaissance – Italy

Painting, Renaissance

Science, Renaissance

Sculpture, Renaissance

Architecture, Renaissance

Literature, Medieval

Literature, Renaissance

Special Headings:

Last Name, First Name (for a Famous Person), except “Leonardo,” “Michelangelo,” “Elizabeth I,” etc.

Last Name (for a Famous Person also often works):

ex. Machiavelli.

Reference:

R 031 Encyclopedias: World Book

Oxford American Children’s Encyclopedia,

R 391 Rac Historical Encyclopedia of Costuming.

R 920 Web Webster’s New Biographical Dictionary

Titles on reserve:

914.04 Day Your Travel Guide To Renaissance Europe

940.2 Cas The Renaissance and the New World

940.2 Woo The Renaissance

940 is the Dewey classification for Renaissance in Europe. The Reynolds Library places its holdings of Renaissance books, transparencies and videos on reserve for teachers’ use. Students missing classes may arrange to view materials by contacting the librarian.

The Howard County Public Library heading, “Renaissance, European” has many titles. The Library catalog can be accessed at www.hclibrary.org and titles may be reserved with a student library card.

Audio-Visual Sources:

Five audiovisual resources, rated for fifth grade use, supplement the library print materials:

VID 940.21 HIS A History of the Renaissance. 23 minutes.

VID 940.21 EVE Everyday Life in the Renaissance. 23 minutes.

VID 382.094 REN Renaissance Travel, Trade and Exploration. 23

minutes.

VID 509.4 REN Renaissance Science & Invention. 23 minutes.

VID 709.024 REN Renaissance Art, Music & Literature. 23 mins.

Individual students can arrange to screen these videos by making an appointment with the lower school librarian during the school day.

Databases:

Sirs Discoverer Deluxe

Materials rated “moderate” (blue book icon) may be used by fifth graders successfully (See below).

SIRS gives many sources: periodical, encyclopedia, World Almanac For Kids, biographies, photographs, newspapers, magazine articles and some great recommended websites. All materials can be printed or sent to an email address for printing with pictures, as wished by user.

Procedure: In the search window, type the name of your person, or the name they are best known by: ex., Leonardo, Michelangelo, Elizabeth I, etc.

Remember to type a full name as LAST NAME, First Name!

Then skim quickly through the “hits” you get, looking for the Sirs Discoverer biography entry. For Leonardo, the entry is:

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Sirs Discoverer, Fall 1996. Lexile Score: 900. 5K

Note the Reading Levels given for every item in Sirs Discoverer:

This one Leonardo entry is rated “blue book,” or moderate difficulty. It gives you a good general guide to your person.

Note also the entry numbers available on the top menu bar: 252 articles, 33 newspapers, 47 magazines, 138 reference, 118 pictures, 17 WebFind sites.

You will want to choose only the entries that fit your needs, so be selective and click on the menu bar headings and links that offer most help to your project.

Remember: you can also access Sirs Discoverer off campus. Contact me to remind you how.

Grolier Kids Online:

A good general encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge is available to start your search. Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia has interactive audio-visual extra features that you may enjoy.

World Book Online

A top-rated general encyclopedia that will give you a good start on your person’s life and work.

Internet Resources:

General introduction to the Renaissance:

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/

A website supported by the Annenberg Foundation has seven main topics, including “Exploration and Trade,” “Printing and Thinking,” and “Focus on Florence.”

Renaissance, the Elizabethan World

www.renaissance.dm.net

This website offers brief historical experiences about common, everyday Elizabethan-era life. Topics include money and coinage, games, food, and education and schooling.

Renaissance Image Gallery

http://www.english,upenn.edu/~bushnell/english-101/gallery.html.

This website, created by Prof. Rebecca Bushnell for her U Penn English class, features a collection of over two dozen images from the Renaissance period.

Virtual Renaissance

http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/Town/town.html

This website invites the visitor to experience a Renaissance town, moving from the guild hall to various places in a typical town and experiencing the life. You can pay a visit to the actors at the Globe Theatre!

http://www.bcpl.net/~sullivan/modules/midrenn/rensites.html

This local site has many topic links on daily life, famous persons, and culture. Links for Galileo, Leonardo, Elizabeth I, etc., are recommended so check it out!

www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/renaiss.htm

This site has many Renaissance and Leonardo links.

Special Topics:

Renaissance Famous Personalities Student Home Page

http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/index.shtml

This useful site has portraits and biographies of many famous Renaissance people, divided into professions, roles in life, etc. Click on the category that fits your person.

Windows to the Universe Art Archive: Images of Scientists and Philosophers.

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/art_and_music/people_art_archive.html

Here find over twenty portraits of notable scientists and philosophers. Click on portrait for brief biography of Copernicus, da Vinci, Galileo, Newton, etc.

Typical Vinci stone house of Leonardo’s time.

Leonardo da Vinci: There is a wealth of information about this supreme artist and giant of science on the web. A few outstanding sites are:

Exhibition at American Museum of Natural History,

http://amnh.org/exhibitions/codex/

Exhibition at Boston Museum of Science

http://www.mos.org/leonardo/museum.html

BBC/British Broadcasting Corp. interactive website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/leonardo/

Learn about the man who wanted to know everything through an interactive timeline, picture gallery, and interactive studio.

Music of the Renaissance:

www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/emusic/renaissa.html.

On this Website students can listen to music of the Renaissance.

Michelangelo:

www.michelangelo.com/buon.bio-splash.html

Fine website provides information about the life and works of the great Italian artist and many opportunities to view his works.\

Renaissance Women:

Queen Elizabeth I: 1592 “Ditchley portrait”, National Portrait Gallery, London.

http://www.sd33.bc.ca/WebQuests/WomenofRenaissance/Links_to_Renaissance_Women.htm

Over 25 biographies and images of famous women of the Renaissance, including Queen Elizabeth, Joan of Arc, and Catherine d’Medici.

Shakespeare:

www.cps.ednet.ns.ca/pageone.htm

Charming website full of student-friendly information about the Bard.

http://www.bardweb.net/globe.html

All things Shakespeare, contains brief biography, works, home, Globe Theatre, citation style.

Shakespeare’s Globe:

Source: University of Utrecht.

Present-day Globe. Source: Shakespeare’s Globe Online.

http://www.shakespeares-globe.org

Learn about the original Globe and newly rebuilt Globe. Includes great close-up photos of the stage and play performances.