Step into the Renaissance! From the Black Death to the dawn of the printing press, these three ready-to-launch lessons get students to explore innovations, analyze causes, and map societal impacts, bringing history to life in a way that energizes students and draws them in. And with our AI-powered structure generator, you spend less time planning and more time watching students think, connect, and discover.
By sorting the impacts of the Black Plague into categories, Columns helps students analyze relationships, make connections, and build a clearer understanding of how a single event shaped multiple aspects of the world. This approach sharpens critical thinking and turns complicated historical concepts into visually structured insights.
Connect helps students link their own ideas to a central concept—then see how those ideas fit into the bigger picture. As they contribute their thinking, students explore how a single Renaissance innovation touched every corner of society and uncover the story behind each impact. Connect turns abstract concepts into visual insights, sparking curiosity, deepening understanding, and keeping every student engaged.
Spectrum gives students a platform to actively evaluate ideas in tandem with their personal opinion. As they rank the causes of the Renaissance from least to most important, they sharpen their skills in comparing, analyzing, and justifying their thinking—building stronger critical reasoning and turning complex historical ideas into memorable, tangible insights.