Time Travelling Teenagers

Time Travelling Teenagers
An Internet Hotlist on Life in Medieval Scotland

created by Mrs J L Macfadyen
Library Resource Centre, Our Lady's High School, Motherwell, Scotland

Introduction | Health and medicine | Crime and punishment | Beliefs and religion | Trades and technology

Introduction
There are four parts to this investigation.

1. Create your group shield
2. Your group splits into experts who research ONE topic each.
3. Each expert teaches the rest of the group
4. The whole group designs a guide book warning time-travellers of differences between the Middle Ages and today

This hotlist will help you with the expert section.

Each expert group has a different topic:

health and medicine;
crime and punishment;
beliefs and religion;
trades and technology.

You have two periods to gather all the information you need onto your poster - one period using the web and one period using the books.

Use your time well. Good luck!

The Internet Resources

Life in Medieval Scotland - Information about life in Scotland in the Middle Ages. Very good information about the church, trade and castles.
Medieval England - Loads of information about all areas of life in the Middle Ages.
Most medieval: exploring the middle ages -

Health and medicine

Black Death of 1348-1350 -
Medieval life: health - All about doctors, medicine and diseases, including the Black Death.
Middle Ages: Health - What did medieval people think about disease and medicine?
The Middle Ages: The Black Death - Huge amount of information split into different pages. Don't try to read the whole thing, focus on the bits you need.

Crime and punishment

Castle dungeons -
Medieval life: crime and punishment -
Middle Ages: Feudal life - Knights were rewarded with land for serving the king - but that gave them another job to do. Find out here about the landowners and the people who worked for them.
National Archives: crime and punishment - Comparing crime and punishment from the middle ages to 20th century.
Secrets of Lost Empires: Medieval Siege - Find out about life in a castle plus a chance to try building a medieval catapult and destroying a castle wall!
Spartacus: Medieval warfare - Information on the variety of weapons used in the Middle Ages.

Beliefs and religion

Middle Ages: Religious life - Description of life in a monastery.
Spartacus: Pilgrimage - Medieval pilgrims - where they went and what they did.
kidipede: medieval religion -

Trades and technology

A book of gode cookery - This site shows you a medieval recipe followed by modern version.
Guilds -
Leaves of Gold: how illuminated manuscripts were made - Find out about one of the most important jobs of a monastery.
Medieval craft guilds -
Medieval life: clothing -
Medieval life: food -
Medieval technology - Descriptions of technology available in medieval times. Some descriptions are a little complicated.
The art of the book in the Middle Ages - How books were created before printing.
Travel and trade -

Content by Mrs J L Macfadyen, jennifer.macfadyen@ourladyshigh.n-lanark.sch.uk
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listlifeinje.html
Last revised Mon Mar 7 16:08:57 US/Pacific 2011