The Italian Renaissance Digital Unit Plan

Unit Title: The Italian Renaissance Name: Ian Maloney

Content Area: World History Grade Level: 7th Grade
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):
7.8 Students analyze the origins, accomplishments, and geographic diffusion of the Renaissance

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.5
Describe how a text presents information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.6
Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author's point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.7
Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.

Big Ideas/Unit Goals:

Big Ideas:
How did Renaissance artists and thinkers get inspired by the classical works of Ancient Greece and Rome?
What are the characteristics of Renaissance art and how did they differ from Medieval Art? (provide examples)
What were the technological and intellectual breakthroughs that further spread the concepts of the Italian Renaissance?

Unit Summary:
The Students will be taking on a hands on approach at analyzing the significant impact of the Renaissance in Europe during the 15th through the 17th century.
Students will be looking specifically at the cultural, artistic, and intellectual impact the Renaissance had on Italy and how the ideals of that period spread across
Europe. Students will learn about the origins of the Renaissance following the Middle Ages, the key ideas of humanism, the famous artists and their artwork they
created, the different art techniques they used, the important patterns that sponsored their work, and how the ideas of the Renaissance spread across Europe
(i.e Germany and England).Students will be able to distinguish the contributions of each of the artist during the Renaissance and identify the different pieces of
art they created.
Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: Quick Write: How can art revolutionize Formative: Summative:
a society? Can you think of any works of art that Quizlet: This Quizlet will feature flashcards for Poster/Presentation: Students in groups will pick a
transformed or influence society? students to memorize key works of art, artists, and Renaissance artist to report on. The poster must
other forces during the Italian Renaissance. contain a small biography of the artist, an analysis
of one of their art, and why are they important in
 Venn Diagram: Compare and Contrast the Italian human history.
Renaissance to the Norther Renaissance (i.e
Germany, England) Essay: How did the art and architecture of Europe,
and then the rest of the world
Timeline: Students will be tasked to identify the
Renaissances origins in the
14th century, its peak in Italy by the 16th century,
and how key innovations, artists peak
period, and the dates they created their work of art.

Quiz Star: While Quizlet will include flashcards to

help you study, Quiz Star will include the actual
quiz on the Renaissance

Lesson 1 (Teacher Lecture)

Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence Lesson Activities: Students will be filling out Guided Notes through a Prezi presentation that the teacher
Students should be able to (Assessments): Students, by created. As the teacher lectures, student will fill out the definitions and answer the questions provided in
identify key terms that deal filling out the guided notes, the Guided Notes. The last section of the Guided Notes will task the student to be creative and fill in their
with the Renaissance. will be given an own response either in drawing or written form about the subject they just covered.
Students will identify the introduction into the main
different cities of Italy, the ideas of the Italian
different artists of the Renaissance, know how it
Renaissance, and the started, the key geographic
artistic styles Renaissance markets, and important
artists used. people of the era.
Lesson 2 (Webercise/ iPad Lesson)
Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:
Students in this section will Students will fill out a sheet Videos and Interactives that help them along with the sheet.
use an online resource to all while navigating the
learn more specifically different websites that are Discussion about the different pieces of art and the intellectual ideals these artists followed.
about the Renaissance provided. The sheet will
artists lives and the have them answer the
artwork they created and origins of the Renaissance,
importance it has on the Italian Renaissance
history. artist and their pieces of
artwork, and the spread of
Renaissance ideals to
Germany.
Lesson 3 (Graphic Organizer)
Student Learning Objective:
Students are tasked to fill
out a graphic organizer all
about the famed artist
Leonardo Da Vinci. They
will need to navigate a
website that focuses on
how Leonardo Da Vinci was
a Renaissance man as he
was an artist, inventor, and
scientist. They will then
answer how each of Da
Vincis talents represented
the humanist ideology.
Unit Resources:
Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:
Students will work alone
and navigate a website Students will read about Leonardo Da Vinci the artist and examine work like the Mona Lisa, Da Vinci as
devoted to the impact the inventor and learn about his blueprints for war machines, and Da Vinci as the scientist and how
Leonardo Da Vinci had as works like the Vitruvian man represented the perfect proportions of man and how the human body
an artist, inventor, and works.
scientist. Students will
Students will connect how Da Vincis work represent the humanist ideology of individuality, humanity,
provide a summary of the
and secularism.
section, a significant piece
to analyze for each section,
and how did Leonardo Da
Vinci represent the
humanist ideology from
that section

1. Crash Course: The Renaissance

2. Exploring Leonardo
3. Age of Rebirth
4. Leonardo Da Vinci's Notebook
5. Exploring the Sistine Chapel
6. The Digital Michelangelo Project
7. The Medicis: Godfathers of the Renaissance
8. The Gutenberg Bible
9. Renaissance Cabinet
10. Renaissance Documentary
Useful Websites:

https://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/italian-renaissance/italian-renaissance-art.html

http://history-world.org/renaissance.htm