Some games and links for this summer

Children´s games, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1560

Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Children.jpg

Here you have some interesting links to review the last units we have studied this year. Some of them include additional information about some topics we didn´t have time to develop. There are also some games to review art and the conquest and colonization of the Indies:

Here you have some games about the Renaissance: 

http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/index2.cfm

http://www.purposegames.com/game/quattrocento-quiz/info

http://www.purposegames.com/game/cinquecento-paintingdme-quiz/info

The following links refer to the Tudors, the ruling dynasty in England between the Catholic Monarchs, Charles V and Philip II´s reigns: 

- Henry VIII´s six wives: 

http://tudorhistory.org/wives/

- The BBC History site includes a lot of information about the Tudors: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/

- Some games about this period: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/launch_gms_spying.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_gms_victorian_dress.shtml

- On the following link you can listen to some songs of this historical period and learn more about fashion in Tudor Times: 

http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/ttss.htm

And this last block  refers to the conquest and exploration of the Indies: 

- This is a PBS website about the conquistadors: it includes a timeline, videos and a lot of information about the explorers of the Indies:


http://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/

- A test about Christopher Columbus: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/famouspeople/standard/columbus/index.shtml#focus

- The first voyage of Christopher Columbus: 

http://www.purposegames.com/game/first-voyage-of-columbus-quiz/info

- Some other games about the Age of Discovery and the explorers: 

http://www.purposegames.com/game/age-of-discovery-quiz-quiz

http://www.purposegames.com/game/thed-age-of-discoveries-ii-quiz

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/explorers/explorers_start.htm

- A game about the Age of Exploration during Tudors´ time: 

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/TudorExploration/NMMFLASH/index.htm

- A link to learn more about the peoples who lived in the Americas before the European conquest: 

http://www.carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/AA/aaflashfront.htm

Enjoy!