The Crusades 5E Lesson

Plan
Ms. Gilliam
10th Grade
 TEK

WH.4G- Explain how the Crusades, the Black Death,

the Hundred Years' War, and the Great Schism
contributed to the end of medieval Europe.
Learning Objective

I can understand what the Crusades were, and why so

many people wanted to participate in them.
 Engage

Name of Activity: Crusade Time!

Description: Have all students list and draw 5 items they would bring on
a crusade during the middle ages
Level of Bloom’s and why?: Level 5, because the students must use
their background knowledge in order to form their own opinion on what
they should bring
Multiple Intelligence(s) and why?: Visual, because they will be drawing
a picture of each thing
 Explore

Name of Activity: Did you chose correctly?

Description: Have students discuss what things they chose to bring
along on a Crusade and inform them of what real Crusaders would have
brought along and how it compares.
Level of Bloom’s and why?: Level 4, because they must compare and
contrast their choices to those of actual crusaders
Multiple Intelligence(s) and why?: Verbal and interpersonal, because
they have to speak to the teacher and other students to reach a
conclusion on how they would have done
 Explain

Name of Activity: Crusades Crash Course

Description: Have students watch and take notes on a crash course of
the crusades. Pause the video when requested as John Green talks very
quickly. Summarize it at the end and answer questions
Level of Bloom’s and why?: Level 1, because the information is simply
being presented to them
Multiple Intelligence(s) and why?: Visual and verbal because they will
be watching a video that utilizes both charts, pictures and verbal
explanations of what the Crusades were
 Elaborate

Name of Activity: What were the Crusades like?

Description: Students will form partners of two and pull one of the 5
personas created by the teacher to view the Crusades through. They will
then go to 2 stations, rolling dice to choose their fate, and record it down on
their worksheet.
Level of Bloom’s and why?: Level 2, because the students must record
what their persona went through in the Crusades
Multiple Intelligence(s) and why?: Interpersonal, kinesthetic, and
linguistic, because the students must work together to record their person’s
fate that will be decided by the dice they roll
 Evaluate

Name of Activity: Would you do it?

Description: Pull students back together and discuss some of the
motivations that some citizens would of had and why so many participated
in the Crusades. Ask them whether or not they would have gone if they were
in the same situation as their personas, and why.
Level of Bloom’s and why?: Level 5, because students must evaluate the
reasons many people went and give their own opinion on their own
character’s actions and explain why they think this way
Multiple Intelligence(s) and why?: Verbal, and interpersonal, because the
students must have a discussion as a class to understand the content fully
 Exit Ticket

Name of Activity: SAQ

Description: Have students answer 3 short answer response questions
based on the material using specific evidence and explaining its
importance
Level of Bloom’s and why?: Level 6, because the students must take all
of the information they have received and write their own response to an
open ended question
Multiple Intelligence(s) and why?: Linguistic, because the students
must write out their findings and thoughts in an effective manner