Year 8A & Year 8B
Today you are going to examine the Printing Press in more detail, as it played a major part in the spread of new ideas! (You will be watching a lot of videos during this lesson to learn about the Spread of new Ideas – pay close attention!)
Follow the instructions step by step:
1.
First, watch this video that explains more about how new ideas spread across Europe:
Spread of New Ideas in Europe. (4:00 minutes long)
2.
This is the letters used to make words, sentences and paragraphs (to ultimately form the pages of text of a book!) were called “the type”.
The type (or letters) were kept in special trays, also known as “printers’ trays”. (These are now collectors’ items!)
“Setting the type” refers the process of putting the letters in the correct order to make words, sentences, paragraphs – and ultimately to form the pages of a book!
“Inking the type” refers to the process whereby balls of ink were used to put ink on the letters, in order to “print” multiple copies of the pages.
4.
Now, watch the following video that tells you more about the invention of the Printing Press.
Printing Press History. (2:00 minutes long)
5.
Also watch the following videos that tells you more about how the Printing Press worked:
Printing Press Demo. (1:58 minutes long)
This video is showing a grandpa demonstrating how the Printing Press worked:
Gutenberg Press. (6:45 minutes long)
6.
And now just for a bit of fun:
A related comic-video…
Histeria! The Printing Press. (4:30 minutes long)
And a related song-video…
Gutenberg song. (2:48 minutes long)
Here are some clues:
(You may use words more than once…)
SOLUTION:
8.
Finally, do “The Printer’s Workshop”, p.19 (matching task).
SOLUTION:
You can mark both tasks by watching the following slides…
(1:35 minutes long)
9.
Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press. (13:41 minutes long)
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