Raiders of the Renaissance Minds

 

RAIDERS OF THE RENAISSANCE MINDS

 

EPIC Adventure!

 

Raiders of the Renaissance Minds is an exciting EPIC Adventure that combines the concept of a Renaissance Mind with an historic backdrop and broad scientific discovery. 

 

It boasts Renaissance Guilds and costumes and theme song words set to the music of Raiders of the Lost Ark. 

 

It's appeal captures the imagination of male and female, young and old, providing challenging work for grade-school through high-school, with each child working at their own level.  

 

Fascinating, mind-stretching Inquiries address and develop skills across all subjects.

 

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RATIONALE FOR RAIDERS OF THE RENAISSANCE MINDS

 

The unifying concept of Raiders of the Renaissance Minds is to help students recognize the distinctive traits that characterize a Renaissance Mind and apply them to recognizing their own potentials.

 

We chose people who made tremendous leaps and affected mankind profoundly thereafter.  We relate one Renaissance Mind to another, searching for common threads. 

 

We help our students not only recognize a Renaissance Mind, but also understand the sacrifice and hard work that produced it.

 

Our goal is that each student may catch the vision of his or her own potential and what it takes to develop it.

 

 

ORGANIZATION OF THE EPIC ADVENTURE

 

The Raiders EPIC AdventureTM is divided into five Components.  Each Component contains five Topics that relate to the subject of the Component.

 

Raiders begins with a Brain Week, the Introduction to the Renaissance and Renaissance Life, and the formation of Guilds.

 

 

COMPONENT 1 - Butcher, Baker and Candlestick Maker

 

• TOPIC 1 - Brain Week and Renaissance Introduction
• TOPIC 2 - Meeting at Guild Hall
• TOPIC 3 - Three Bags Full
• TOPIC 4 - Farmers and Bakers
• TOPIC 5 - Candlestick Maker - Edison

COMPONENT 2 - Mind Over Matter

• TOPIC 1 - Copernicus
• TOPIC 2 - Galileo
• TOPIC 3 - Einstein
• TOPIC 4 - Leonardo
• TOPIC 5 - Medical Minds

COMPONENT 3 - Venture Forth

• TOPIC 1 - Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
• TOPIC 2 - Henry Ford
• TOPIC 3 - Columbus
• TOPIC 4 - Wright Brothers
• TOPIC 5 - Reach for the Stars

COMPONENT 4 - Echoes Through Time

• TOPIC 1 - Gutenberg
• TOPIC 2 - Martin Luther
• TOPIC 3 - Marconi
• TOPIC 4 - Image-ination
• TOPIC 5 - Two Heads are Better Than One

COMPONENT 5 - The Agony and The Ecstasy

• TOPIC 1 - Palestrina
• TOPIC 2 - Brunelleschi
• TOPIC 3 - Michelangelo
• TOPIC 4 - Disney
• TOPIC 5 - Your Renaissance Mind

The study of 23 Renaissance Minds are grouped into the following categories:

• Scientific Minds
• Transportation/Exploration
• Communication
• Art and Music

We end the Adventure by bringing it back to the students with Your Renaissance Mind.

Each EPIC AdventureTM has its own character and personality.  Each time we approach a new Adventure, we allow it to dictate its organization and character.  We add and subtract different aspects with each unique year.  You will see that if you live more than one Adventure in the Academy. 

In addition, with each new Adventure, we learned even more about how to teach in a magical, brain-firing way.   As you teach your children, you will add and subtract the things that work best for you and your children.

KEY POINTS

The Key Points for all Topics are the key information from the knowledge base that we researched and organized to present to the students.

They include:

• Key Point picture mindmaps - blank
• Key Point picture mindmaps - including Key Point information
• Skill Key Points - to teach the skills needed to accomplish certain Inquiries

INQUIRIES

A set of Inquiry projects accompanies each set of Key Points.

Inquiries are projects that build and expand upon the Key Point information and allow students to work with the Key Point information in a meaningful way that enhances understanding and memory and provides an opportunity to learn needed skills in the context of mearningful work.

Inquiries include work in all the subject areas:

• Language Arts
• History
• Science
• Math
• Art
• Music
• Movement

 You will choose which Inquiries you will do together and which and how many the students will choose from.  Students may come up with their own Inquiry project ideas, which of course, is great! 

RESEARCH PROJECTS

At the beginning of every EPIC AdventureTM, once you have explained the Adventure ahead and what they will learn about throughout the year, students may take a week to ponder which Topic they would like to pursue in a year-long Research Project (explained at the Academy). 

At the end of the Adventure, when they complete their Research Projects, they may submit a description, photo samples, etc. to the Academy for a Research Project Expert Certificate and a place in the Researcher's Hall of Heroes.

Click below to enroll in The EPIC Adventure Academy

with RAIDERS OF THE RENAISSANCE MINDS EPIC Adventure

ENROLL HERE