Introduction
Welcome to the wonderful world of knights, armor, and weapons! This is the medieval times! Enjoy yourself as you learn about one of the many aspects of medieval life, the coat of arms!
Task
Use the vast resources found on the internet to discover all about coat of arms and their meanings. A coat of arms is a fancy drawing of a shield with different animals and pictures, called elements, that represent a knight or a family. In medieval times, there were so many badges, another name for a coat of arms, that there were people whose only job was to record all the coats of arms and make sure the new ones that were being created were different from the old ones, to avoid confusion. At first they were very simple, but they became more complicated as time wore on. What will you discover today?
Be sure to keep a pencil and paper handy to answer the questions.
Process
The Royal Family, and Her Majesty the Queen of England, and their goverment has created a wonderful website, which you can use to find out more about the coat of arms of Scotland: http://cdn.royalcollection.org.uk/cdn/farfuture/QI44VzI9Ayi0baVzUW0D9Yr… Now that you have learned about all the elements of an coat of arms, can you tell me three different pictures on their badge and what they mean?
Each color on the shield represents a different quality, which you can read about here: http://www.thetreemaker.com/design-coat-of-arms-symbol/meaning-of-color…
Now that you know what the colors mean, can you tell me the color with the virtue that best describes yourself?
Evaluation
Make sure you wrote you answers to the questions on the previous page with the pencil and paper you brought with you!
Conclusion
I hope your journey through the internet to discover all about the coats of arms. If you want to learn more, click on the following links!
http://www.mytribe101.com/crest/index.php
http://medievaleurope.mrdonn.org/heraldry.html
Credits
Webquest Created By: Esha Sawant