MIDDLE AGES / MEDIEVAL UNIT

SOCIAL STUDIES 8--MIDDLE AGES STATIONS UNIT

Click on the links below to access the online materials for your stations.

MEDICINE & THE BLACK DEATH

• Health : What was it Really Like to Live in the Middle Ages?  (https://www.learner.org/series/interactive-the-middle-ages/ )
• VIDEO: Life in the Middle Ages - The Doctor (Schlessinger video)

WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES

• Getty:  What Was Life like for Women in the Middle Ages?
• Hildegard of Bingen--The Human Soul
• Medieval Illustrations of Spinning​
• VIDEO:  Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages

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KNIGHTS AND CRUSADES

Go to the Van Tech Library website ( vantechlibrary.org ). Under the HOME tab, select the large blue and white “Library Catalog” button to go to “Destiny Discover” (the library software). Log in at the top right using your student number and password. Scroll down to the Learning Resources “ribbon” and go left, until you are able to select "World Book Student”. Search “knights and knighthood” to answer activities 1 & 2. Search “crusades” to answer questions 3 & 4. 

RELIGION : MONKS & NUNS

• VIDEO: Life in the Middle Ages - The Monk (Schlessinger video)​
• Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
• Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (Minneapolis Institute of Art)
  
• Medieval Manuscripts
• About Illuminated Manuscripts
• Rule of St. Benedict
• Virtual Video Tour of Monte Cassino​ See Video on left

WEAPONS AND WARFARE

• Medieval Arms Race (NOVA)

LIFE ON THE MANOR

• VIDEO: Life in the Middle Ages - The Serf (Schlessinger video)

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