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Units & Mini-Units

UNIT (7th grade) - download the pdf file for 46 pages of lessons and ideas

Medieval France UNIT

Core Knowledge: Many Wonderful Units

Turrets and Treachery Unit Plan

Middle Ages UNIT (7th, Dept of Ed, KY)

Sworn to Serve

Life in the Towns/Daily Life Unit

Medieval Europe lesson ideas

Medieval Europe (lessons)

The Doomsday Book (lesson)

Lesson Plans

The Middle Ages (Discovery)

Times Medieval (lesson)

Everyday life in the Middle Ages (lessons)

Experiencing Life in the Middle Ages (lesson)

Medieval Life: Squires, Maidens, Peasants UNIT (7-9)

Medieval Unit (Pine River)

Medieval Life - Squires, Maidens, Peasants (ynhti)

Feudal System - Castles at War (lesson) 

Castle Keep (lesson)

Middle Ages (lesson)

Learning about the Middle Ages (gifted, 4/5)

Persuasive Essays (St John's School) & More Lesson Ideas

Medieval Europe (500-1500)

Middle Ages (school site with activities)

Middle Ages/Renaissance

Saints and Sinners Unit

Economic and Social Changes in the High Middle Ages

Folk Tales from Europe and the Five Themes of Geography


Feudalism

Feudalism (rise and fall) - lesson 1 & lesson 2  

The Feudal Game (the original)

Feudalism - Free Presentation in PowerPoint format

Feudalism for Kids


Due Process/Magna Carta/ Law

Magna Carta & Right to Petition (lesson)  

Magna Carta, Petition of Rights (lesson)

Writing the Declaration of Independence - Based on the Magna Carta (lesson)

Due Process (lesson)

Magna Carta for Kids


The Crusades

The Crusades: Download a free UNIT

The Crusades -- Cultural Diffusion (lesson)

Lesson Plan on the Crusades 

Crusades (Discovery)

The Crusades for Kids 

Effects of the Crusades for Kids


The Black Death / Bubonic Plague

Bubonic Plague Role Play

The Black Death Play (1347-1349)

Hands-On Epidemic Simulation

The Black Death (lessons, literature)

Black Death on CNN (lesson)

The Black Death for Kids


Role of the Church

Medieval Church - unit

Not everyone lived in castles (lesson)

Role of the Church and Popes (lesson 3)

Cathedrals, Pyramids & Mosques UNIT (4-5)

Learning Modules for Kids

Parish Priests and the Sacraments

Medieval Nuns, Monks, Benedictine Rule 

Medieval Abbots, Bishops, Cardinals, Pope

Church Councils and
Religious Beggars (Friars)
 

The Inquisition 

Cathedrals

Stained Glass Windows

Holy Relics

Illuminated Manuscripts
(Book of Kells)

Gregorian Chants

Medieval Plays/Drama
(Mystery, Miracle, Morality)


Life in a Castle

Castle Builder lesson (Designing a castle - what does it take?)  

Big Castle Maze (to print and use in class, I prefer this one)

Castle Maze (to print and use in class)

Cardboard Box Castle

Medieval Feasts (lesson) 

Castles for Kids


Heraldry/Pride/Honor

Heraldry

Make your own shields - your own coat of arms

Heraldry for Kids


The Life of a Knight

Days and Days of Knights (unit, plus lesson ideas)

Knights and Chivalry (literature, grades 9-12)

Days and Days of Knights (EdWorld)

Lesson Idea: Write your own code based on today's social code of behavior
Modern Code of Chivalry

Medieval Arms Race (PBS, with teachers guide)

Design a Coat of Arms

How to make a medieval Coat of Arms

How to make a Tabard (costume clothing)

Make your own helmet

Knights for Kids


Medieval Music/Food/Fairs

Of Monks and Minstrels (lessons)

Music in the Middle Ages


The Barbarians

Vikings

Vikings (Donn) 

Vikings - Free Presentations in PowerPoint format 

Anglo-Saxons

Anglo-Saxons

Saxons - Free Presentations in PowerPoint format

Saxons Webquest

Saxon Invaders (Vikings)

Franks

Clovis (Franks, resource)

Charlemagne (learning module) 

Normans

Free Presentations in PowerPoint format 

Norman Conquest

The Norman Conquest (quiz, worksheets, lessons)

Many worksheets for world history


Webquests

Middle Ages (7th grade)

Internet Lesson Plan - Medieval Period

Middle Ages - loyalty

Code of Chivalry (Webquest)  

Middle Ages (Webquest)

Middle Ages Scavenger Hunt

Webquest - Lives of Women (Thinkquest)

Medieval Life Webquest with worksheet

Medieval Webquests - MANY!


Children's Literature 
Written in or about the Middle Ages (Lessons) 

King Arthur

The Babees' Book

Beowulf

Middle Ages: Tales of Camelot Unit

Canterbury Tales Unit

Canterbury Tales

The Black Death - Daniel Defoe's Journal unit

Medieval Mystery and Morality Plays

Folktales

Middle Ages: Lessons using Literature

Adam of the Road (score)

Door in the Wall (score)

Lessons for all of the below are here:
 
Children's Literature Lessons A-Z

Adam of the Road | Beowulf | Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushmas
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
The Door in The Wall - Marguerite De Angeli
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
Robin Hood (play, lessons)


Free Clip Art

Objects in a church & Christian clipart & More (A-Z)

World History Clip Art (Phillip Martin)


Resources

Free Medieval Times Presentations (Pete's Power Point Station)

Middle Ages for Kids - Learning Modules, Games, Focus on Reading (donn)

The Game of Goose - includes game board 

 

St Jude Coloring Book (Child's Guide to the Catholic Mass)

Medieval Church Personalities - bios

Thinkquest: Middle Ages (index of entries) 

Introduction to the Medieval World - Outline

Education World - Middle Ages

Early Medieval Notes

High Middle Ages Notes

Crusades Notes

Late Middle Ages Notes

Medieval History in the Movies

 

Links

Middle Ages Links (Fremont Schools)

Medieval Times Resources (Whitehorse Elem)

Middle Ages Links

Famous People in the Middle Ages (links)  

Middle Ages for Kids Links

Free Games Online


Other Medieval Civilizations

 

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