The Pennsylvania State University Medieval Garden: Using a Specialized Garden as an Alternative Teaching and Learning Environment
Since its installation, various colleges within the university as well as community groups have used the garden as an alternative classroom for learning activities, educational demonstrations, and events related to the medieval period.
Coloring Pages about the Middle Ages
Looking for printable coloring pages to allow preschoolers and young children learn more about the Middle Ages?
Grade 8 Unit Plan: What elements of the 21st Century have their roots in the Middle Ages?
By studying social, political, and economic aspects of the medieval era, students will better understand why their lives are the way they are now.
Life in Medieval Times – Unit Plan for Grade 8 students
The main goal of this unit is to introduce life in the Middle Ages and in turn have the students relate Medieval times to their daily lives.
Medieval Cities of Europe: Click, Tweet, Map, and Present
During spring semester 2010, a long-standing upper-division lecture course, Medieval Cities of Europe, 500-1500 CE, underwent a course transformation. Our goal was to address specific challenges with student engagement that we had experienced in the course
Magna Carta: Teaching Medieval Topics for Historical Significance
With the approach of the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, the famous charter of rights from medieval england, we have a timely and useful example for considering what a focus on historical significance could look like.
Creating An Online Portal Into The Medieval World
Researchers are in the process of pulling together a website bringing together scores of electronic resources on medieval subjects, including literature, history, theology, architecture, art history and philosophy.
Teaching Byzantium
Pinning down Byzantium’s history and political culture, and even trying to determine its chronological limits is one of its challenges, wide open to first-years and professors of Byzantine history alike.
MyDante: An Online Environment for Contemplative and Collaborative Reading
This paper explores the tensions between individual and collaborative aspects of reading in the context of MyDante, a digital environment for the study of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Elite Revisionists and Popular Beliefs: Christopher Columbus, Hero or Villain?
Elite Revisionists and Popular Beliefs: Christopher Columbus, Hero or Villain? By Howard Schuman, Barry Schwartz and Hannag D’Arc Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 69,…
Notre Dame announces first chair in Byzantine Studies
The University of Notre Dame has established an endowed chair in Byzantine Theology. The position, which will focus on the theology of the…
Fashioning the Middle Ages: Teaching Medieval Culture Through Clothing
The first hurdle is to make sure students accept that these are clothes, not costumes. Despite how odd some medieval fashions look to modern eyes, people in the past wore this clothing every day, found it comfortable, reasonable, and lovely, and were able to accomplish what they needed to while wearing it.
Teaching the Canterbury Tales in American High Schools
Despite formidable obstacles, teachers have developed creative and effective ways to engage students with Chaucer’s texts.
A Case Study of Medieval Japan through Art: Samurai Life in Medieval Japan
A Case Study of Medieval Japan through Art: Samurai Life in Medieval Japan By Ethan Segal and Jaye Zola Lesson Plan for Grades…
Medieval Educational Videos
In 2002, TV Choice Educational Resources created a series of three 30-minute films designed for Elementary and High School students about the Middle…
A Present Day Trip Back in Time: A Travel Guide of Medieval Castles, Churches, and Roads in Between
Our destinations will include the castles, cathedrals, fortified towns, and commercial centers that were prominent during the Middle Ages and exist in varying degrees of preservation today.
Lesson Plans: Trebuchets
Turning and Flinging: Simple Machines in the Classroom By Jarred Araujo, Jenna Hiller and Andrew Hyde Paper published online by Western Michigan University (2006)…
Teaching Knighthood and the Late Medieval Battlefield using the Knights of The Messenger
Teaching Knighthood and the Late Medieval Battlefield using the Knights of The Messenger By Matthieu Chan Tsin The Once and Future Classroom, Vol.7:1…
Stained Glass in the School Art Curriculum
Stained Glass in the School Art Curriculum By Linda Papanicolao Paper given at 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (2001) Introduction:…
A theory-building approach to the study of medieval history in grade four
A theory-building approach to the study of medieval history in grade four By Monica Resendes and Maria Chuy Paper given at the 2010…
Digitized Medieval Manuscripts in the Classroom: A Project in Progress
Digitized Medieval Manuscripts in the Classroom: A Project in Progress By Andrea Winkler The History Teacher, Vol. 35:2 (2002) Introduction: For many medievalists, the…
Medieval Art: A Resource for Educators
Medieval Art: A Resource for Educators By Michael Norris The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005 Goals and Design of this Resource: This Resource…
Teaching Fifth Graders Science Through the Lens of Medieval Scientific Discoveries and Developments
The era called the Middle Ages is one of the most impressive periods in the development of occidental culture. In it many technological advances that we take for granted were made
Art of Illumination Project
Art of Illumination Project By Patricia Bentivoglio and Sue Sullivan Lesson Plan from the Archaeological Institute of America The Art of Illumination project…
Islamic tilings of the Alhambra Palace: teaching the beauty of mathematics
What geometry was needed by artisans in the Middle Ages to create the beautiful symmetric tilings of the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain?