Printing press and new ideas: 6th to 8th people & places
Printing and new ideas, 1450 to 1700: Gutenberg's press to a rebuilt London. A free 6th to 8th lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: printing and new ideas, 1450 to 1700: Gutenberg's press to a rebuilt London.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: How did one machine change what people could read?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (15 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: printing press and new ideas.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner or a small group the idea in their own words.
Practise (20 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Print: Gutenberg's printing press (https://teach.peabody.kids/passages/8/gutenberg-and-the-printing-press)
- Read: The Great Fire of London (https://peabody.kids/library/the-great-fire-of-london)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about printing press and new ideas, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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