Resources for Year 8 Humanities Research: Medieval Europe

The iCentre has some excellent resources to assist Year 8 students with their research on Medieval Europe.  

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Topics for this task include: 

• The Medieval Knight 
• The Crusades 
• Charlemagne
• Women of the Middle Ages 
• The Black Death 

A search of the OPAC will inform students what book resources are available from the shelves for this topic. 

The iCentre team highly recommend students use One Search in the OPAC to investigate: 

• Gale Virtual Reference collection for eBook resources; 

• Britannica and the Ancient and Medieval History database for articles and primary sources; and  

• Clickview for video resources. 

The iCentre team has also prepared a range of short video tutorials to assist student to use find these resources: 

Logging in to the OPAC 

Searching the OPAC 

Searching the Databases 

Searching Britannica 

Searching Gale Virtual Reference Library