Renaissance fair games ideas

During his lifetime, da Vinci kept a number of notebooks in which he would record his ideas, both by writing and by illustrating. Ask students to keep notebooks of their own. Encourage them to record creative ideas in whatever format they prefer prose, verse, drawing, etc.

The purpose of this activity is to get students to think about the sort of interdisciplinary thinking that was popular during the Renaissance. Da Vinci was a prime exemplar of this sort of interdisciplinarity. Remind students that in working on their notebooks, no medium or subject matter is off limits: they are free to draw pictures, make up inventions, reason philosophically, or anything else.

Ask students to write or draw in their notebooks regularly for a period of weeks. Then collect all the notebooks and review them for a grade. During the Middle Ages, theology was treated as a respectable way of knowing about the world. By contrast, s ome Renaissance thinkers began to privilege the scientific method as the superior method for gaining knowledge. Practitioners of the scientific method repeatedly perform experiments and observe the results.

When a certain experiment consistently produces a certain result, this demonstrates a fact about the world. For example, if I hold a piece of chalk in my outstretched hand, and then open the hand, the chalk will fall to the ground. This same result will follow every single time I open my hand this way. This pattern is observable evidence of gravity. Ask students to design their own experiments. Then have students perform their experiments several times and reflect on the significance of the results.

Emphasize the importance of creativity in designing experiments. It is more important for students to get a sense for the possibility of studying a question scientifically than it is for them to actually design a successful or clever experiment. Have students share their experimental results with the class. Great family fun every single visit!

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