Grade 8: Cluster 5
Shaping the Modern World (Circa 1400 to 1850)
Learning Experience
8.5.1
World Overview (1400-1850)
8.5.1 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
8.5.1 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
Renaissance:
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/
Renaissance, Exploring Leonardo:
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.html
4-2 Explore, Age of Exploration, World Mariners:
http://www.42explore.com/index.htm
(research by topic)
The Age of Enlightenment, Historical Background:
http://mistral.culture.fr/lumiere/documents/
files/cadre_historique.html
African Slave Trade:
http://africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/
aa080601a.htm
Electronic Passport, The Enlightenment:
http://www.mrdowling.com/705-enlightenment.html
Nature of the Industrial Revolution:
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0858817.html
The Student’s Friend, Part 2, Unit 2, the 1700s: Age of Enlightenment and Revolution: www.studentsfriend.com/sf/part2see/part2-2.html
(excellent summary of the American Revolution, “Glorious Revolution” and British Parliament, and French Revolution)
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/#
Electronic Passport, French Revolution:
http://www.mrdowling.com/705-frenchrevolution.html
PBS Liberty! The American Revolution:
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/index.html
The American Revolution Homepage:
http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/INDEX2.HTM
Wikipedia, Origins of Parliamentary Democracy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Parliament
#Origins_of_Parliamentary_Democracy
8.5.1 APPLYING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
Learning Experience
8.5.2
Global Exploration
8.5.2 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
8.5.2 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
The European Voyages of Exploration: The Sugar and Slave Trades:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/Trade.html
Metropolitan Museum, Gold of the Indies:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ingd/hd_ingd.htm
Metropolitan Museum, The Portuguese in Africa:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/agex/hd_agex.htm
Metropolitan Museum, Europe and the Age of Exploration:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/expl/hd_expl.htm
The Mariners’ Museum, Age of Exploration Timeline:
http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/
1492: An Ongoing Voyage:
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html
European Voyages of Exploration: Religion and Exploration:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/relex.html
Renaissance Exploration and Trade, Become a Spice Trader:
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/spicetrade/
Discoverers Web, The Age of Discovery:
http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/index.html
ThinkQuest, Explorers’ Hall of Fame:
http://library.thinkquest.org/4034/hall_of_fame.html
European Voyages of Exploration, Communicating with Indigenous Populations:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/communicate.html
The European Voyages of Exploration, the 15th and 16th centuries:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/
European Exploration of the Southeast and the Caribbean:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/outline/07-exploration/
8.5.2 APPLYING STRATEGIES
Medieval Sourcebook, Christopher Columbus, Extracts from Journal:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.html
Captain James Cook, Extracts from the Journals, The 2nd Voyage, A Voyage toward the South Pole:
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/7557/cook2.html
From Revolution to Reconstruction, Documents, Samuel de Champlain, Voyages, 1604:
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1601-1650/champlain/voyag.htm
From Revolution to Reconstruction, Documents: Letter of Amerigo Vespucci, 1497 :
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1400-1500/columbus/amerigo.htm
The Avalon Project: Privileges and Prerogatives granted by their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus, 1492:
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/colum.htm
Discoverers’ Web, Primary Sources: Additional Instructions for Lt. James Cook:
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/7557/secret.html
IMDB Movies, Amistad, Plot Outline:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118607/
The map onUnited Nations and Decolonization:
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpi/decolonization/main.htm
Learning Experience
8.5.3
Renaissance and Reformation
8.5.3 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
WebQuest News:
http://webquest.org/
Okanagan University College, WebQuests:
http://www.ouc.bc.ca/tltc/tr/webquest/default.htm
The National Gallery UK, Collection by artist:
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/collection/artist/default.htm
Art History, Renaissance and Baroque:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/renbrq.html
8.5.3 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
Leonardo da Vinci:
http://www.mos.org/leonardo/
Electronic Passport, Renaissance:
http://www.mrdowling.com/704renaissance.html
PBS, Medici, Godfathers of the Renaissance:
http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici/
Renaissance, Exploring Leonardo:
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.html
The National Gallery UK, Collection by artist:
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/collection/artist/default.htm
Art History, Renaissance and Baroque:
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/renbrq.html
Renaissance:
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/
Sixteenth Century English Renaissance Literature:
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/renaissanceinfo.htm
Global History, Science and Technology, Introduction:
http://regentsprep.org/Regents/global/themes/science/index.cfm
Andreas Vesalius:
http://hsc.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/antiqua/texth.htm
The Galileo Project:
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/
History Channel.com, Galileo:
http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=88151
History Channel, Renaissance:
http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=109733
Perspective drawing:
http://mathforum.org/sum95/math_and/perspective/perspect.html
8.5.3 APPLYING STRATEGIES
PBS In Search of Shakespeare:
http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/theshow/theshow265.html
(information on the life and times of Shakespeare and activities to accompany the PBS program series)
Learning Experience
8.5.4
Industrial Revolution
8.5.4 ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
8.5.4 ACQUIRING STRATEGIES
Galileo Tour, Telescope:
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/galtele.html
Sir Isaac Newton:
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95dec/newton.html
The Open Door Website, Steamships:
http://www.saburchill.com/history/chapters/IR/033.html
Inventor Johannes Gutenberg:
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/gutenberg.htm
Leonardo, Renaissance Man, Inventor:
http://www.mos.org/leonardo/inventor.html
The Great Idea Finder, Inventor Profile:
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/of_inventors.htm
Andreas Vesalius:
http://oz.plymouth.edu/~biology/history/vesalius.html
Antony von Leeuwenhoek :
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/leeuwenhoek.html
The Industrial Revolution:
http://www.saburchill.com/history/chapters/IR/001.html
8.5.4 APPLYING STRATEGIES
No websites recommended
