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Leonardo da vinci

You are going on a virtual tour to explore all about Leonardo da Vinci. These are the tasks you must complete on your exploration.

 1. Study the timeline on Leonardo da Vinci and then draw a timeline of your own showing the order in which he accomplished his paintings and any inventions mentioned, alongside the year.  2. Make a list of all his scientific discoveries that you consider to be of major importance.  3. Continue your exploration and go to Exploring Leonardo. Read through and answer the following questions:  a)  List two attributes that led Leonardo to making important scientific discoveries. What do you think drove Leonardo to make these discoveries? Did he face any difficulties? Did these discoveries change anything? What did Leonardo get out of these discoveries?  b)   Go to Inventors Workshop. Read very carefully.  c)  Click on Elements of Machines: Look very carefully at the elements of each machine and then complete the gadget anatomy page and print this off once you have checked your answers. Go back to Inventors Workshop.  d)   Click on the link **Visions of the Future** and write about what inventions Leonardo had drawn about. Feel free to include any pictures.  e)  Go back to **Inventors Workshop** and click on **Leonardo’s Mysterious Machinery** and complete the quiz.

 4. If time, explore other areas such as Leonardo’s Perspective Leonardo’s Left to Right What Where When You need to summarise in one paragraph each area you explore.


 * FINAL PRESENTATION: **

Present all your above findings in a MS Word document or MS Power Point presentation. I would expect to see the following pages:  1. Timeline  2. List of scientific discoveries of major importance  3. Answers to the following questions: List two attributes that led Leonardo to making important scientific discoveries. What do you think drove Leonardo to make these discoveries? Did he face any difficulties in making these discoveries? Did these discoveries change anything? What did Leonardo get out of these discoveries? 4 .  Gadget Anatomy page (screen dump your quiz results and paste into your presentation). <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msolist: Ignore;"> 5. Write about the inventions Leonardo had drawn about. Feel free to include any pictures. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msolist: Ignore;"> 6. Summary of any additional information you have discovered about Leonardo.


 * Click on this link to start your tour** **Leonardo da Vinci Virtual Tour**