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Seventh Grade Medieval Village

Seventh grade history students married the best of medieval history to the modern-day wonders of STEM by crafting their own medieval village on the engineering software TINKERCAD.

During a semester-long historical simulation, students practiced critical thinking and problem solving as they designed and built elements of a medieval village according to their assigned social status. Peasants enjoyed the most varied work, as they constructed barns, huts, houses, stables, wells, and even the executioner’s scaffold and stocks. Merchants built shops (with homes above) unique to their chosen trade, from armorers to bakers to vintners. Knights crafted defensive structures, from curtain walls to towers and turrets. Vassals had to work together to build multifaceted creations, such as the keep, gatehouse, monasteries, and abbeys. Lords were tasked with creating cathedrals; each Lord built a copy of a real-life European cathedral, from Notre Dame to Westminster Abbey. Finally, Master Masons were asked to create complex pieces that included working, moveable parts, from drawbridges to windmills and watermills to siege towers. Many thanks go out to Mr. Ostrom, who not only printed everyone’s work on our own 3D printers, but also helped find solutions to various construction issues along the way.

The full village photos can be viewed here.

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