This web quest has the intention to help the students to relate the different beauty cannons all over the history.

1. 2nd Term
7th grade
The Victoria School

2. Key Concepts
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 Canon of beauty
By extension, may be called the norms, measures or
anatomical looking of a certain period as to what is or is
not considered beautiful. These norms have varied over
time and what is considered beautiful in one era may
not necessarily be so in another.
Canons of beauty follow the evolution of fashion and
are dependent on the evolution of physical decoration
techniques such as dressing or haircuts.

3. Key Concepts
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 Beauty
Characteristic that provides a perceptual experience of
pleasure or satisfaction. An "ideal beauty" is an entity
which is admired, or possesses features widely
attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for
perfection.

4. Key Concepts
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 Culture
The way of life, especially the general customs and
beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular
time.

5. Exercise
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 By groups of 3, the students will make a
presentation in Power Point about how the beauty
canons have been changed, according to the cultural
context, beliefs and chronological development, since
the prehistory until our days.
 The presentation must have at least 4 different
canons (regarding to different centuries), with its
explanation, dates, characteristics and images.
 Deadline: Monday 3rd of march, 15:00

6. Evaluation
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 Coherence in the timeline between the context,
explanation and images.
 Logical analysis between images and theory.
 Balance between quantity, text and images (50-50)
 All the members of the group must be in conditions
to explain any answer.
 Internet use is allowed, also the library sources.
 The work must record the research, using APA for
all the references.
 Punctuality and organization.

7. Conclusion
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 After this exercise the student must be able to
recognize different types of human visual
representations, relating it with different periods of
human history and the reason behind those changes.