Timelines

Lesson: TImelines

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​Did you purchase a yearbook in your previous school?  Yearbooks are used to preserve special memories that happen during a particular school year. 

If you purchase one each year, it gives you a way to look back and remember teachers, friends, and fun times long after they are over. 

In a way, yearbooks create a timeline of your life. 

​A time line is a visual that shows when events took place. We use them to figure out the date, or when, an event happened. Time lines are always written in chronological order - the order in which they happened.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a timeline?

Multiple Choice

Timelines must be in _____________ order

• disorganized
• random
• reverse
• chronological

​All time lines must have...

• title - this tells us what the timeline is about​

• time - these will typically show the dates, or years, ​of the events being shown

• Events - brief descriptions of the events; we do not need complete sentences

• ​Many timelines incorporate color to help further organize information

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​Time Line: History of Popular Social Media Platforms

A timeline shows a vertical or horizontal line with marks on it. These marks are meant to indicate time intervals. These could be intervals of minutes, one year, ten years, a hundred years, or any other interval, depending on the purpose of the timeline. ​

​This timeline shows intervals of minutes and hours because it's scope is just one day.

Multiple Choice

What interval is being used in this timeline?

• 10 minutes 

• 10 years

• 1,000 years

• 50 years

​We can also interpret, or answer questions, from timelines. For example, I can see that Ben Franklin invented swim "hands", or fins in 1717. But we can also answer more complex questions, by closely reading the dates. For example...

Multiple Choice

How old was Ben Franklin when he invented swim hands?

• 11 years old

• 20 years old

• 5 years old

• 37 years old

Historians divide time into centuries and decades to make it easy to study. 

 
A decade, century, and millennium are units of time that represent specific periods of years: 

Decade: A period of ten years. For example, 1980 to 1989 is a decade. 

Century: A period of one hundred years. The word century comes from the Latin word centum, which means one hundred. 

Millennium: A period of one thousand years. The word millennium comes from the Latin word mille, which means a thousand.

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Lesson: TImelines

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Lesson: TImelines

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Multiple Choice

Which group came after 1500 AD?

• Souix

• Ute

• Anasazi

• The Spanish Explorers

Match

Match the following terms

• Decade

• Century

• Chronological

• Timeline

• BCE

10 years

100 years

In order of time

Visual representation of events

Before Common Era

• 10 years

• 100 years

• In order of time

• Visual representation of events

• Before Common Era

Match

Match the following

• E

• G

• K

• C

Coronado explores southwest US in 1540

Hudson explores Arctic in 1607

Lewis & Clark explore LA Purchase - 1804

Columbus sails to "New World" in 1492

• Coronado explores southwest US in 1540

• Hudson explores Arctic in 1607

• Lewis & Clark explore LA Purchase - 1804

• Columbus sails to "New World" in 1492

Labelling

Place these dates in chronological order on the timeline.

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

1960 The Beatles

2020 - Covid 19

1969 - Land on Moon

1963 - I Have a Dream

1945 WW2 ends

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