Renaissance Web Quest
Directions: Answer the questions below on your paper after visiting the web sites.
1. WEBSITE #1: http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/
Click on Renaissance Women. Click on Isabella & Catherine. What 3 things
were Renaissance women supposed to do?
2. What languages could she speak?
3. Scroll down to Catherine de Medici. What happened to Catherine when she
was one?
4. How many of Catherine’s sons became kings?
5. WEBSITE #2:
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/main/michelangelo.ht
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What was Michelangelo’s true love?
6. Instead of the original 12 figures of the apostles that the pope had
suggested for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, how many did Michelangelo
paint?
7. Read the Article “Customs” Why would men pat each other on the back when
they met?
8. Scroll down to “Making a Leg”. What part of a man was a very important
focal point?
9. WEBSITE #3 http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/instrumt.html
10.
Click on Renaissance Instruments. Click on Harpsichord. Look at the
picture. What modern instrument does it look like?
11. Go back and click on Serpent. It was used in sacred music to reinforce what?
(You can put on your headphones and click on the picture to hear a sample of
it!)
12.
Go back and click on Lute. Draw a sketch of the lute. (You can put on
your headphones and click on the picture to hear a sample of it!)
13.
WEBSITE #4 http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo
Click on Leonardo: Right to Left. What type of writing did he use?
14.
Click on Try it Yourself! Then put in your first and last name to see
how Leonardo would have written it. Now write your name as he would have
written it.
15.
Go back to the Exploring Leonard main site (website #4). Click on
Inventor’s Workshop at the bottom. Scroll down and click on Visions of the
Future. Click on the parachute to see how Leonardo first designed it. Draw
a sketch of his drawing.
16.
Go back to the Exploring Leonard main site (website #4) and click on
What? Where? When? On the map, click on Rome. Since Leonardo was not
allowed to study dead bodies, what did he use to learn about anatomy?
Bonus Activity: Renaissance Business Card
Research one of the following people, then create a business card the person
could have used during their lifetime. Your choices include: Catherine de
Medici, Isabella d’Este, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei,
Isaac Newton, or Martin Luther.
The business card must include:
• His/Her name in large print
• Where he/she could be contacted (not a phone number-phones didn’t
exist!)
• Important accomplishments, skills, knowledge, etc.
• Appropriate illustrations & color
• Card must be clean, neat, and appealing to the readers!
Renaissance Web Quest
Click on the following sites to answer your web quest questions.
Website #1
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/
Website #2
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/main/michelangelo.html
Read Article “Customs” to answer questions 7 and 8
Website # 3
http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/instrumt.html
Website #4
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/
Renaissance Web Quest
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marry well, be loyal to her husband, and give birth to boys
Greek and Latin
both of her parents died from a disease
three
sculpting
more than 300
to check for hidden weapons
the calf of the leg
a piano
low men’s voices
*sketch of a lute*
mirror writing
*sketch of student’s name written backwards*
*sketch of Leonardo’s parachute*
animal parts from a butcher shop
Lute:
Parachute: