Year 8 History Homework Project – ‘Exhibition on Renaissance’
Project Aim :
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Fulston Manor are planning an exhibition on the Renaissance and as part of that you are
going to investigate some important people who were influential during that time
During the project you will investigate Scientists, Explorers and Artists and the last part of
the task is to make a model of an invention, a creation or masterpiece from one of your
chosen key people
Each task is listed below with details of what you need to do and who you are
investigating
You must NOT cut and paste information from the internet – you need to present the
information you research in your own words.
Your project must be clearly named and include your Teacher and Teaching Group
Make sure your work is stapled or put in a folder (No hard backed folders)
Models must be clearly labelled and photographed and a picture included in your
project or emailed to your Teacher
Task 1 – Explorers
(spend no more than 90 minutes)
Choose 3 Explorers from the following list:
Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
Martin Frobisher
Ferdinand Magellan
Francis Drake
Jacques Cartier
Walter Raleigh
Vasco da Gama
Bartholomew Diaz
Hernando Cortes
Henry the Navigator
Amerigo Vespucci
The Cabot brothers
Complete the table for each of the 3 Explorers you have chosen:
Explorer
Name and dates
Where they went/ what they did
Why this was important
(Optional – does this link with
anything else you have learnt
about this time period)
Mark out of 10 for significance
Explain your mark
Task 2 – Scientists
(spend no more than 90 minutes)
Choose 3 Scientists from the following list:
Galileo Galilei
Nicolaus Copernicus
William Harvey
Leonardo Da Vinci
Christopher Wren
Andreas Vesalius
William Caxton
Tycho Brahe
Johanes Gutenberg
Isaac Newton
Inigo Jones
Complete the table for each of the 3 Scientists you have chosen:
Scientist
Name and dates
What they did / invented
Why this was important
(Optional – does this link with
anything else you have learnt
about this time period)
Mark out of 10 for significance
Explain your mark
Task 3 – Artists
(spend no more than 90 minutes)
Choose 3 Artists from the following list:
Christopher Wren
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Leonardo Da Vinci
William Shakespeare
Donatello
Samuel Pepys
Raphael
Monteverdi
Bronzino
Thomas More
Erasmus
Thomas Tallis
Complete the table for each of the 3 Artists you have chosen:
Artist
Name and dates
Where they created
Why this was important
(Optional – does this link with
anything else you have learnt
about this time period)
Mark out of 10 for significance
Explain your mark
TASK 4 – Who is your Winner?
(Spend no more than 30 minutes)
Give a certificate to the winner! Choose
which of the individuals from your
research you think made the greatest
impact. On your certificate explain the
impact they made. Compare directly
with the other candidates and explain
why their impact was greater than the
others. Link with other topics you have
studied.
TASK 5: Planning Your Model
(Spend no more than 50 minutes)
Choose 1 of the things linked to a person you have researched that you can make a model of e.g. a
map from 1 of the explorers, a model of something a scientist discovered/ invented, a model of a
piece of artwork by one of the artists.
Draw a basic plan of what you are going to make, label it and explain WHY you have chosen it.
(NOTE: This does NOT have to be the thing you think that made the biggest impact – IT CAN BE ANY
ACHIEVEMENT OF THE RENAISSANCE)
Plan of my model for the renaissance exhibition (ensure that it is drawn in pencil and the way you
will make it is labelled: -
I have chosen to create this model because…
TASK 6 – Making your Model
(Spend no more than 90 minutes)
Make your chosen model for the Renaissance Exhibition.
Take a photograph of your model and put this in your project or email it to your teacher.
Bring your model in to school.
TASK 7 - Evaluating your Model
(spend no more than 50 minutes)
Evaluate your model. Copy and complete this table :
Model I made
Effort out of 10
Success out of 10
What went well
What I would do differently if I was to
do it again
Mark out of 10 for the impact of this
achievement in the renaissance
Explanation