1453 Siege of Constantinople

June 20th, 2008
Posted in 1450-1750 (Year 8 History), Year 8 History

An introductory worksheet. Perhaps the main reason why the Renaissance took off in Italy - this activity gets the narrative across in an engaging way. Students are given an interactive “news feed” of events, then can choose to produce EITHER a biased news report in Publisher OR a radio broadcast using their microphone OR a television newsflash using Moviemaker. Each of these tasks is progressively more challenging and they can be graded accordingly. Some examples of videos produced by my own students at the International School of Toulouse can be found here: Jade Oldfield | Laura Topp.

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