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The following list of research and activity ideas is intended to offer suggestions for complementing social studies and history curricula, to trigger additional ideas for enhancing learning, and to suggest cross-disciplinary projects for library and classroom use.

• Obtain a list of movies about the medieval period. Sources include the Medieval Sourcebook Web site, "Medieval History at the Movies" (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medfilms.html) or Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever, published by Visible Ink Press, 2001. Watch several movies about the era and discuss them. How accurately do they portray events in the Middle Ages?
• One of the signs of Europe's recovery during the 1100s was the emergence of international fairs at Champagne and in Flanders. Hold a class "fair," with each student assigned to bring in an item for "sale." What do students learn about one another by doing business...