Ducksters
Ducksters: History: Renaissance Food for Kids
What did they eat during the Renaissance? Kids learn about food and cooking during the Renaissance on this site.
Rice University
Galileo Project: Florence and Tuscany
The Galileo Project of Rice University describes Florence and Tuscany during the Renaissance period. Includes a tour of Renaissance Florence, as well as descriptions of daily life.
Other
Radixnet: Musical Instruments Described
Site to all instruments of the renaissance period. Gives a little information on the instruments.
Ducksters
Ducksters: History: Renaissance Astronomy for Kids
Kids learn about the science of astronomy during the Renaissance. Discoveries by Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler.
Ducksters
Ducksters: History: Renaissance Science for Kids
Kids learn about science achievements during the Renaissance. Explore the inventions and technology of this time in history.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Renaissance: Focus on Florence
Overview of Florence during the Renaissance discusses the key elements and individuals that made the city a center of Renaissance power and culture: the Medici family, the wool trade, humanism, Florentine art and architecture,...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Science Italian Style: Renaissance Machines
Investigate innovative machine designs of the Renaissance, then build a hang glider by following a set of instructions. Modify the design to create a model that can fly longer distances.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Leonardo Da Vinci Biography for Kids: Artist, Genius, Inventor
This site gives a biography of the renaissance man of many talents including artist, science, and inventor known as Leonardo da Vinci.
Free Math Help
Free Math Help: Origins of Math
The lesson examines the origins of mathematics. Strings of symbols, the mathematicians of Ancient Greece, Arabian scholars, and the Renaissance are discussed.
Other
Basse Dance Project
This site features valuable information about the Renaissance dance called Basse Dance. It provides a history, dance steps, and music.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Romanticism
This site from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook provides great information on the Renaissance. No text on this page, but a series of links from roots of Romanticism, to Romantic philosophy, to Romanticism in the Arts.
Ducksters
Ducksters: History: Reformation for Kids
Kids learn about the Reformation of the church during the Renaissance. Site explores what it was and who was Martin Luther?
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 702: Trompe L'oeil
A short lecture on trompe l'oeil in art that introduces the concept of realism turned to visual deception in artwork. It explores the great divide in theory between Plato and Aristotle which serves as an epistemological backdrop to the...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography: William Shakespeare for Kids
A webpage about the biography of William Shakespeare who was a playwright for the English theatre during the Renaissance at the Globe Theatre of London.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Nicholas Hilliard
Biographical summary of the life and career of Nicholas Hilliard, British artist of portrait miniatures during the Renaissance.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Music for Kids: History of the Violin
Kids learn about the history of the violin. Learn about a family of musical string instruments called the violin on this site. Explore its history and its beginning in the Renaissance period.
Oswego City School District
Oswego City School District: The Commercial Revolution
Read here about the time in European history leading into the Renaissance. It is known as the Commercial Revolution, or the emergence of trade, capitalism and working class parties, and unions.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Quiz: Renaissance Art for Kids
History Questions: Renaissance Art Quiz, Test, and WebQuest
Other
Renaissance Dance: Definition
A definition of the term "Renaissance Dance" along with details and explanation.
Ducksters
Ducksters: History: Renaissance Art for Kids
Kids learn about Renaissance art including painting and sculpture on this site. Explore what makes this art unique like realism and perspective.
Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement
Web Exhibits: Pigments Through the Ages: Renaissance and Baroque
Illustrated essay on the paints and painting techniques used by Renaissance and baroque artists.
Curated OER
Rice University: Florence and Tuscany
The Galileo Project of Rice University describes Florence and Tuscany during the Renaissance period. Includes a tour of Renaissance Florence, as well as descriptions of daily life.
My Hero Project
My Hero: Leonardo Da Vinci
A great artist, inventor, and thinker of the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci fused his love for science and math with his talent for art. Read a student-created illustrated essay about Leonardo's adventures in science, experimentation,...
Curated OER
Unesco: Finland: Petajavesi Old Church
Petajavesi Old Church, in central Finland, was built of logs between 1763 and 1765. This Lutheran country church is a typical example of an architectural tradition that is unique to eastern Scandinavia. It combines the Renaissance...
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