Although I have designed this webquest so that most information can be obtained through the links, I recommend the following resources for use in the classroom or at home for additional information.
Book Resources
| Exploring the Past (series)
Title: The Middle Ages
Author: Catherine Oakes
Illustrator: Stephen Biesty
Published by: Hamlyn Publishing Group
Year: 1989 |
Beautifully detailed pictures that are historically accurate and enhance in-depth writing that can be read and understood at the third-grade level for the most part.
This is one of the books I used most frequently for this webquest.
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Megascope (series)
Title: Life in the Middle Ages
Story: Evelyne Brisou-Pellen
Factual Accounts: Antoine Sabbagh
Activities: Be'atrice Garel
Game: Catherine Pauwels
Published by: Barrons
Year: 1997 |
A very well-written book that will be readable mostly by third graders and provide challenging reading in some section. Vivid and historically accurate pictures that will capture the interest and attention of students.
In addition, this book also has stickers, postcards, two medieval activities, a different trencher recipe and some other food ideas!
Another of my most-used resources. |
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| What do we know about... (series)
Author: Sarah Howarth
Illustrator: Celia Hart
Published by: Peter Bedrick Books
Year: 1995 |
Excellent book for giving a more rounded view and insight into the lives of the commoners and tradespeople. The reading would be challenging for third grade, but would make an excellent opening to the school day to share a one page topic with students! The pictures are period illustrations and historically accurate. |
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| Smelly Old history (series)
Author: Mary Dobson
Illustrator: Vince Reid
Published by: Oxford University Press
Year: 1998 |
I would have loved to use more of this book, but couldn't fit it in! A truly themed-historical book that will catch any student's attention. I recommend this one for some fun sharing with students. It gives the messier and smellier side of realistic life in the medieval time. |
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| Eyewitness Books (series)
Author: Andrew Langley
Photographers: Geoff Dann and Geoff Brightling
Published by: Alfred A. Knopf
Year: 1996 |
Unequaled in actual photos of medieval objects and historical items from that period. It's broken down by categories, and in this book are sections I found in no other books, providing a larger view of life in the middle ages. |
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| Eyewitness Books (series)
Author: Christopher Gravett
Photographers: Geoff Dann
Published by: Alfred A. Knopf
Year: 1993 |
A fuller picture of the knight's life can be learned through this book. Again, this book is unequaled in actual photos of armor and knights' weapons from that period. It's broken down by categories, and in this book- just like the other from the Eyewitness series, are sections I found in no other books, providing a larger view of a knight's life in the middle ages. |
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| See Through History (series)
Author: Brian Williams
Illustrators: Jonathan Adams and James Field
Published by: the Penguin group
Year: 1995 |
Although only a small portion of this book is on the medieval castles, students will enjoy and learn from being able to see inside the castles in this book! |
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Video Resources
As of the time for which I am doing this webquest, there are no historically accurate films I am aware of that I can recommend for third graders. However, students will find enjoyment in the following films, which portray some of the *aspects* of the medieval time. Note, according to the Discovery channel, King Arthur would have been a figure (or based on a figure) who lived many centuries before the medieval period. But I feel students could gain a visual perspective from the following:
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| Animated: (Disney's)
The Sword in the Stone |
(Of course, with this one it might be mentioned that wizards and witches are fictional.)
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| Animated: (Goodtimes)
Camelot- the Legend |
(Again, especially in the case portrayal of Morgan Le Fay, it might be mentioned no one would look like the way she is pictured at that time.)
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